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Brent Community Advice Network

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We are a network of community organisations that offer information, advice and guidance to people living or working in the borough of Brent
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What is BCAN?

If you’re a not-for-profit organisation providing advice, information or guidance to people in Brent, BCAN can help you and you can help BCAN. Membership is open to those who provide advice services as their main activity, and to those who complement their main services by offering advice and information.  We focus on local groups in Brent, but larger organisations can also join if their services are available to Brent residents. BCAN is funded through a contract with Brent Council.
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Here’s why you should join

  • BCAN has over 70 members which reflect the borough’s diverse communities, and it’s expanding every week
  • It shows groups how they can strengthen their organisation and attract funding
  • BCAN groups work together to provide the best possible outcomes for the people who most need help
  • It provides training to help people to use our local advice website, Brent Advice Matters to find the advice they need.  The BAM website can also be used to help people to refer to other agencies for a ‘phone call or face-to-face advice interview.
  • ​BCAN organises collective training from top quality trainers, which is either free, or a fraction of the price you would normally pay.
  • BCAN has its own Brent Advice Fund which is exclusive to BCAN members.
  • It supports groups to gain externally recognised accreditation at a level that’s right for you, to show the public and potential funders that you have a professional approach.
  • BCAN offers a FREE database for recording details about the people you help and how you help them.
  • BCAN issues regular newsletters and bulletins, to keep you up to speed with the information you need to know
  • BCAN holds Conferences so you get to meet other BCAN members, learn about what they do and how you may be able to work with them.
  • BCAN members have access to the Members Area of our website – offering a host of information and training materials – there will be something there that’s right for you.
  • BCAN membership is completely free!
BCAN will help your organisation to excel and expand - Join up today! 

BCAN leaders

​Brent Community Advice Network (BCAN) is provided by Brent Advice Partnership which is led by Citizen’s Advice (Brent) in association with Advice4Renters, Age UK (Brent), Ashford Place and CVS Brent.
Advice4Renters Age UK Brent Ashford Place Citizens Advice Bureau Brent CVS Brent

BCAN members

  • 1 Voice Community
  • Advice 4 Renters
  • Age UK
  • All Nations Brent
  • Amazing Grace Women's Association
  • Ansar Youth
  • Ashford Place
  • Asian People's Disability Alliance
  • Asian Womens Resource Centre
  • Association for the Blind ( Brent )
  • Association of Muslims with Disabilities
  • Bosnia & Herzegovina Community Advice Centre
  • Brent Advocacy Concerns
  • Brent Bereavement Services
  • Brent Carers Centre
  • Brent Community Law Centre
  • Brent Food Bank
  • Brent Indian Association
  • Brent Irish Advisory Service
  • Brent Mencap
  • Brent Somali Community Centre
  • Camden Somali Cultural Centre
  • CAP St Gabriels
  • Casa do Brasil
  • Citizen Advice (Brent)
  • Community Action on Dementia-Brent
  • Chalkhill Community Radio
  • Crisis
  • CVS (Brent)
  • Daniels Den
  • Dawn Butler MP Constituency Office
  • Elders Voice
  • Eritrean Youth Community
  • Home-Start Brent
  • Family Development Initiative
  • Faynuus Community
  • FNAN Eritrean Youth & Family Outreach
  • Global Skills Limited
  • Granville Community Kitchen
  • Harlesden Methodist Church soup kitchen and advice dropin Fridays
  • ​Hestia
  • Home-Start Brent
  • Horn of Africa Refugee Welfare Group
  • Horn Stars SC
  • Iraqi Welfare Association
  • Kilburn Unemployed Workers Group
  • Latin American House
  • The Living Room
  • Love London Working
  • National Algerian Centre
  • PAIWAND
  • Pakistan Community Centre
  • PLIAS Resettlement
  • Potential Mentoring
  • ​Royal Association for Deaf People
  • RUMIs Kitchen
  • Safe Start Foundation
  • Salusbury World
  • Sangam
  • ​Shaw Trust
  • Single Homeless Prevention Service
  • Somali Advice & Forum for Information (SAAFI)
  • South Kilburn Trust
  • Step Up Hub
  • Stonebridge Somali Centre
  • Stream Skills Advancement limited
  • SUFRA
  • Teth Youth & Adult Services
  • The Sherriff Centre
  • Under One Roof
  • Victim Support
  • Voiceability
  • Wembley CCC
  • Work Rights Centre
  • Young Rootsyoungroots.org.uk/

What our members are saying:

If it hadn’t been for BCAN we would never have got AQS. We had been talking about AQS for ages and the onerous task of accreditation. Thanks to the BAF funding stream, open to BCAN members, it was possible. Alexa and Lucy got to work and make it happen. We are so glad to have AQS and we certainly learnt a lot throughout this process.
​          - Sarah, Salusbury World CEO. ​        
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