Useful Contacts: 

• Leicester City Council 0116 4541000 

• Disability Living Allowance 0800 1214600 

• Personal Independence Payment 0800 9172222 

• Benefit Enquiry 0800 1690310 

• Action Homeless 0116 2211855 

• YMCA Support Project 0116 2212787 

• Age UK 01162220555 

• Red Cross 0116 4790900 

• Number Five Drop in, 5 Hill street LE1 3PT (Near Sainsburys Humberstone Gate) 0116 4782017 open 8.00am-3.00pm Showers, food, clothing and advice. 

Useful Links and Numbers

• British Institute for Human Rights: www.bihr.org.uk 

• CALS - Community Advice and Law Service - free advice in welfare. www.cals.uk.net 

• Counselling Directory: www.counselling-directory.org.uk 

• Employment Law Advisory Service - www.employment-law.uk.com 

• Equality & Human Rights Commission: www.equalityhumanrights.com 

• Government Equalities Office - www.equalities.gov.uk 

• Highfields Community Association -  www.highfieldscentre.ac.uk 

• Institute of Race Relations:  www.irr.org.uk 

• Leicester Centre for Integrated Living: www.lcil.org.uk 

• Leicester Gay, Bisexual and Transgender people in Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland - ww.llgbc.com 

• Leicestershire and Rutland Sport County Sports Partnership:  www.lrsport.org.uk 

• Based at the Centre on Migration, Policy and Society (COMPAS) at the University of Oxford, the Migration Observatory provides independent, authoritative, evidence-based analysis of data on migration and migrants in the UK, to inform media, public and policy debates, and to generate high quality research on international migration and public policy issues. migrationobservatory.ox.ac.uk 

• Race on the Agenda (ROTA) is one of Britain's leading social policy think-tanks focusing on issues that affect Black, Asian and minority ethnic (BAME) communities. www.rota.org.uk 

• Refugee Council - www.refugeecouncil.org.uk 

• The Regional Equality and Diversity Partnership website - www.redp.org.uk 

• Runnymede is the UK’s leading independent race equality thinktank. We generate intelligence for a multi-ethnic Britain through research, network building, leading debate, and policy engagement. www.runnymedetrust.org 

• Show Racism the Red Card, the campaign that uses top footballers to educate against racism. www.srtrc.org 

• The original ‘Throwing Stones’ resource was launched in 2003 and has been updated in 2011 providing a web based resource to support the whole community to tackle racist incidents and racist bullying. www.throwingstones.org.uk 

• Travellers Times brings you the latest news, pictures, video, opinion and resources from within the Gypsy, Roma and Traveller communities. www.travellerstimes.org.uk 

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