Goals: To ensure young people obtain access to justice and expert legal advice
Funding: Receives money from the Legal Services Commission, Connexions South London, the European Social Fund and Bromley Youth Service.
When Enis (not his real name) was 16, he fled the war in Serbia and arrived in the UK unaccompanied two years ago.
Newham Social Services placed him in Bromley, where he started learning English at the local college. But last year, while awaiting a decision on his asylum claim, he received a letter from the local council telling him he would have to move to Manchester.
"I was very upset and angry to think that I had to abandon my studies and move to an area where I knew no-one," says Enis.
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