Let's Get Donating!

Some of you may have seen me post a link recently to a donation page for the Ipswich Legal Walk. I thought that today I would go into more detail.

On 27 June this year a number of legal advice centres and law firms/chambers will be taking part in a 10km walk around Ipswich, Suffolk.

The aim of this walk is to raise money for the Eastern Legal Support Trust and free legal advice centres in the Ipswich area. As we assist the Suffolk Legal Advice Centre with their law clinics, we thought that this would be the right centre for us to raise funds for.

The need for free legal advice has increased dramatically since the changes to legal aid. It is now, more than ever that people are in need of free legal advice. The Suffolk Law Advice Centre helps those that are vulnerable in the Ipswich area with this. The centre offers 30 minutes of free legal advice in areas such as family, employment, immigration, housing, small claims, wills and probate, community care, personal injury and dispute resolution, from legally qualified professional volunteers.

Helping these people can range from giving them various options for their legal issues, or it could simply be helping them to fill in forms/applications or writing letters.

We would be grateful if you could support us, we have a target of £500 and any contribution, no matter how small will be greatly appreciated.

Please find the link below for the fundraising page:

https://mydonate.bt.com/fundraisers/goteleesolicitors

Here's hoping it won't be too warm on the day, I've been told that last year was unbearably hot!!

Army Soldiers, Drafting & Networking

This week has been relatively normal, albeit only four days long, but that was rather nice! The normal tasks of drafting terms and conditions, asset purchase agreements, incorporating charities etc were all carried out and it was a good, productive week at the office.

On Wednesday I was able to spend the day at Wattisham army base to attend the Health & Wellbeing fair. I represented my firm with my Training Principal and we were able to advertise our services to the soldiers, their families and their friends. Other services that visited included child care, PTSD treatment and hypnotherapy.

It was really interesting to speak to the soldiers and be told about their experiences. I was very surprised at how many women were there. Many of them had children, and I thought that it must be so hard to have such a demanding job whilst also having to look after such young children. I don't know how they do it!

I'd never visited the army base before so it was interesting to have a look around. As my firm is local to Wattisham, it's a great idea to form a relationship with the soldiers so that they feel that they can trust us to provide legal advice to them.

Thursday night I was invited to a bar situated on the docks, and what a fine day it was to go there. This was the Young Professional Network meeting that I have been to before. It was good to see some familiar faces and also catch up with some old faces that I used to work with!

This week I also received the news that I'd passed my PSC Finance and Business Skills exam, what a relief! No more exams (I think). I'm one step closer to qualification.

I hope everyone enjoyed their weekend, the weather was phenomenal! Let's make the most of the little weekend that we have left.