Jobs have been lost after a Liverpool-based registered charity, which helped 15,000 people a year across the city with advice, entered voluntary liquidation.
Liverpool Community Advice was based in Dale Street and could trace its roots back to 1939 when the Citizens Advice Bureau (CAB) opened its doors in the city. In 2016 it evolved into the LCA as an independent entity.
Jason Greenhalgh and Paul Stanley of Begbies Traynor were appointed as joint liquidators after its trustees had 'explored all options to keep the charity open'
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As a result, nine people were made redundant and several volunteers were released.
The organisation had been funded by a combination of support from local and central governments, executing contracts for organisations, public and private donations, bequests and grant awards from benevolent organisations.
It had provided advice on housing, debt, benefits, immigration energy bills as well as mental health.
The trustees saida lack of funding led to its closure despite it dealing with almost 15,000 enquiries according to its latest published annual report.
Mr Greenhalgh said: "It’s the worst time of year for an organisation like this to be forced to close its doors but the trustees explored every option to remain open.
"It is a challenging time for anyone running organisations reliant on donations and grants. A combination of reduced funding, inflation and issues in recovering from the pandemic have resulted in these circumstances."
Gerald Rivett, chair of the LCA, added: "Like many organisations in the charity sector, we suffered greatly from the impact of the pandemic during and after lockdown. We worked hard to get more help but we just couldn’t get the financial support we needed to maintain our services.
"In our view, there is no substitute for personal face-to-face advice. Our dedicated staff performed heroics during the pandemic for some of the most vulnerable people in our society.
"Whilst we are now not able to service any new cases, we are doing our best to help existing clients and where possible they will be referred to other nominated organisations.
"I’m very proud of all the work we have done in this great city and we’d like to thank everyone who has supported us since we launched in 2016."
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