Age UK Lewisham and Southwark offer advice on the following:

  • Welfare and benefits (checks and applications)
  • Housing issues
  • Community care
  • Utilities and consumer issues
  • Accessing transport
  • Signposting and identifying suitable support on legal matters, debt and immigration issues (cannot help with these matters directly)

You can check what benefits you’re entitled to by using the Age UK Benefits Calculator: http://www.ageuk.org.uk/information-advice/money-legal/benefits-entitlements/benefits-calculator/

Getting Referred

Clients must be 60+ and living or working in the borough of Southwark. Call 0207 358 4077, email sail@ageuklands.org.uk or sail@nhs.net

Improving the lives of older people, working towards a future in which older people are valued, safe and empowered to make choices about their lives