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AdviceUK Speaks Up for Members: January 2026  Every day, at AdviceUK, we advocate on behalf of you – our members. We work closely with you to understand and cover the issues that affect you and your clients. We work with a wide range of external stakeholders and seek to influence decision-makers so that we can improve the landscape within which advice services operate and the lives of the people you support. We also speak to the media on your behalf about the issues that matter to advice services.  […]

AdviceUK welcomes some positive moves announced in last week’s Budget statement and, in particular, the decision to lift the punishing two-child benefit cap. This is a change our members have long called for and is a clear sign that the Government is listening to the advice sector. Other welcome announcements include measures to address the cost-of-living crisis and the overall uplift to the Ministry […]

Over 20 MPs and representatives from across the UK’s independent advice sector came together on Monday, 20 October for the #AdviceSaves 2025 Parliamentary Reception.  The event celebrated the life-changing impact of independent advice services and the contribution of the people who work in them. We launched AdviceUK’s new report, Advice Works: building a skilled advice […]

Last week Callum Delhoy, AdviceUK’s Policy and Public Affairs Manager, and Willem van de Ven, AdviceUK’s Policy and Public Affairs Officer (both pictured left), attended the Labour Party Conference in Liverpool.   We split our time between the main venue, exhibition hall and the fringe events. That meant bouncing from morning briefings to lunchtime panels, […]

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Together, AdviceUK members are a vibrant and diverse community of advice services. They are at the heart of everything we do as a team of staff and trustees at AdviceUK.  This is because we know how important it is for our members to exist, whether part of a student union, housing association or large charity – or a small, independent, service providing general advice to their local community or specialist advice.