Advice & Support

Use this page when food support alone is not enough and you need wider advice, health, welfare or training support in Leeds.

If you need urgent food first, go to Get Help or Food Banks before returning to this section.

Debt & Welfare

This is the route that should be easiest to find. On the original Leeds FAN site, Debt and Welfare Advice links into Money – Debt and Budgeting and highlights the Leeds Money Information Centre.

The Leeds Money Information Centre brings together organisations across Leeds offering free and independent debt advice, including Citizens Advice Leeds, StepChange, Leeds City Credit Union, Money Wellness, Money Helper and St Vincent Support Centre.

Use this route if food insecurity is linked to debt, budgeting, benefits or wider money worries.

Open Debt & Welfare

What this section covers

The original Advice & Support section signposts longer-term support categories that sit alongside food provision.

Healthy Start Vouchers
Debt and Welfare Advice
Addiction
Education & Training
Mental Health
NHS in Leeds

Use this page when food support is only part of the problem and you need wider signposting.

Support categories

Internal summary pages

These are the routes in this redesign that now have their own summary pages, so users do not need to jump back into another internal Leeds FAN page first.

Debt & Welfare – debt advice, budgeting, benefits and money worries.
Healthy Start – pregnancy, babies, young children and help with healthy food costs.
Mental Health – wellbeing, community mental health, therapy and specialist support.
NHS in Leeds – hospitals, community healthcare and support linked to health or unstable accommodation.

Addiction

The original site includes Forward Leeds, a confidential alcohol and drug service for adults, young people and families.

It also includes Addiction Connection Leeds (ACL), a network of initiatives working to tackle addiction.

Forward Leeds phone: 0113 887 2477

Education & Training

The original site lists Chapeltown and Harehills Area Learning and Training Project, Swarthmore Education Centre, Learning English in Leeds and Education Achievement Academy.

Use this route when wider needs are linked to learning, confidence, language support or training.

Support for food providers and professionals

The original Advice & Support page also includes routes for organisations and professionals, not only for individual users. These include resources such as the Resilience Tool Kit for Food Providers and information about Healthy Holiday Provision.

When food insecurity links to wider needs, use these categories after emergency food has been checked first. Start with Get Help if the immediate priority is food.