Providing free legal representation for the public
and advocacy experience for junior lawyers
FRU is moving offices and will be leaving 60 Gray’s Inn Road on Saturday 17th December 2016. Our new address is 5th Floor Kingsbourne House, 229-231 High Holborn, London, WC1V 7DA - Office entrance on Gate Street.
Due to the move FRU will be closed from 6pm Thursday 15th December 2016. We will reopen again at 9am on Tuesday 3rd January 2017. This period of time incorporates both our office move and the Christmas closure.
Huge Congratulations to FRU's five runners who completed this years London Marathon. They all completed the marathon within fantastic times and did amazingly well with all their fundraising efforts. We are grateful for all the hard work put in to training and for raising a very impressive £8,745. Lets see if we can break the record and make it to £10,000
You can still donate here: www.thefru.org.uk/events-fru
Busy week meeting with Miranda Grell, development officer at Hackney Law Centre and Nina Garnham, European Pro Bono Manager, Shearman & Sterling (London) LLP sharing ideas on ways to develop our work.
The office hours on Tuesdays have changed to 9am-8pm.
FRU are delighted to announce the appointment of Lorna Reid as our interim chief executive. Lorna has over 20 years’ experience as a social security advocate and was most recently FRU's part-time principle legal officer in social security.