Congratulations to the following advice providers who have been awarded the AQS for the first time and those who have had their monitoring assessments and keep the AQS with a reaccreditation.
Note that this list does not include reaccreditations for Age UK and Citizens Advice services which are organised separately.
See also AQS new holders and reaccreditations 2026.
December 2025
New AQS holders
- Arts Students’ Union – London WC1
- St Peter’s Bengali Association – London E2
Reaccredited services
- Aspire – Stanmore, Middlesex
- Bangladeshi Community Association – Keighley
- Bangladeshi Islamic Association Smethwick
- City & Hackney Carers Centre
- Contact – London N1
- Disability Advice and Support Hillingdon (DASH)
- Glass Door Homeless Charity – London SW6
- Golden Opportunity Skills & Development (GOSAD) – Southall
- Hodan Somali Community – London W10
- Luton Irish Forum
- Migrants Organise – London W10
- Positive East – London E1
- Race Equality First Limited – Cardiff
- Reading Students’ Union Advice Service
- Release Legal Emergency & Drugs Service – London E1
- Royal Mencap Society (Information and Advice Service) – Peterborough
- St Ann’s Advice Centre – Nottingham
- Velindre Cancer Centre – Macmillan Welfare Rights Team – Cardiff
November 2025
New AQS holders
- Action on Disability – London SW6
- Coventry University Students’ Union
Reaccredited services
- Accommodation Concern – Kettering
- Bucks Students’ Union Advice Centre
- Care & Repair – Newport
- DIAL Barnsley
- Ealing Mencap (Ealing Advice Service)
- GL Communities – Gloucester
- Kinship – London SE11
- Oxford Welfare Rights
- Rotherham Council Money and Benefit Advice Service
- Shelter – London EC1
- Working Families – London EC2
October 2025
New AQS holders
- Money Wellness – Salford
- LDN London (Family Service) – London W9
- Pembrokeshire Care Society (Tenancy Support and Advice)
- West Wales Care and Repair
Reaccredited services
- Bosnia and Herzegovina Community Advice Centre – Willesden, London
- Care & Repair Cardiff and the Vale
- Centre 33 – Cambridge
- City Life Education and Action for Refugees (CLEAR) – Southampton
- Horn of Africa Disability and Elderly Association HADEA – London W13
- Kurdish and Middle Eastern Women’s Organisation – London N19
- Manningham Project – Bradford
- Ruils Independent Living – Teddington, Middlesex
- Shpresa Programme – London E13
- St Hilda’s East Community Centre – London E2
- The Students’ Union Advice Centre UWE Bristol
- Work Rights Centre (WoRC) – London NW10
September 2025
New AQS holders
- All People All Places (APAP) – London E1
- Royal Free Charity (Support Hub Service) – London NW3
Reaccredited services
- Cambridge House and Talbot Ltd (Safer Renting) – London SE17
- Care & Repair Blaenau Gwent & Caerphilly
- Care & Repair Carmarthenshire – Llanelli
- Care & Repair Western Bay – Swansea
- Christians Against Poverty – Bradford
- Disability Solutions West Midlands – Stoke-on-Trent
- Mind in Croydon
- St Vincent de Paul Society (England and Wales) – Bradford
- The City Hospice Trust Limited – Cardiff
August 2025
New AQS holders
- Afghan Association Paiwand, Edgware, London
- Hull and East Yorkshire Macmillan Welfare Benefits Advice Service (Hull City Council)
Reaccredited services
- Account3 – Bethnal Green, London
- Bench Outreach – Lewisham, London
- Care & Repair Cwm Taf – Rhondda Cynon Taf
- DIAL West Cheshire – Chester
- Stifford Centre – Stepney Green, London
- Sufra NW London – Brent, London
- Windhill Advice Service – Shipley, West Yorkshire
July 2025
New AQS holders
Improving Lives Plymouth
Reaccredited services
- Money A+E UK – London E15
- BPP University Legal Advice Clinic – London WC1
- Hertfordshire Macmillan Benefits Advice Service
- South London and Maudsley NHS FT Welfare Benefits Advice Service
- West London Equality Centre (Ealing Equality Council) WLEC
- Irish Community Services – Bexleyheath, Kent
- Meeting New Horizons – Doncaster
- South London Refugee Association – London SW16
- Asylum Support Appeals Project (ASAP) – London
June 2025
New AQS holders
Gypsies and Travellers Wales – Cardiff
Reaccredited services
- Burmantofts Community Projects, Money Buddies, Ebor Gardens Advice Centre –
Leeds - Carers Support (Bexley) – Kent
- Community of Refugees from Vietnam – East London, E14
- DERMAN for the wellbeing of the Kurdish and Turkish Communities – London N1
- Disability Rights UK – Stretford, London
- Manchester Refugee Support Network (MRSN)
- Meadows Advice Group – Nottingham
- Royal Association for Deaf People – London N1
- Salusbury World Refugee Centre – London NW6
- ShARP (Shiney Advice and Resource Project) – Houghton le Spring, Tyne & Wear
- Threshold DAS Limited – Llanelli
May 2025
New AQS holders
- Imago Community – Tunbridge Wells
- St Joseph’s Hospice Hackney – London E8
Reaccredited services
- Bedfordshire Macmillan Welfare Rights Service – Shefford, Bedfordshire
- Macmillan Cancer Support (MCS) – Support Line Services, Welfare Rights Team – Shipley, Yorkshire
- New Citizens Gateway – London NW9
- Northamptonshire Rights and Equality Council
- Tenovus Cancer Care – Cardiff
- Wai Yin Society – Manchester
- Wandsworth Carers’ Centre – London
April 2025
New AQS holders
- Adferiad Recovery – Swansea
- Empowering Deaf Society – Ilford, Essex
- Middle Eastern Women and Society Organisation (MEWSO) – London N1
- Royal British Legion – London SE1
- Wanstead and Woodford Migrant Support – Essex
- Westway Trust – London W10
Reaccredited services
- A4U – Action Advice Advocacy – Shrewsbury
- Debt Advice Foundation – Darwen, Lancashire
- Irish Community Care – Liverpool
- Loughborough University Student Advice and Support Service – Leicestershire
- Mind in Salford
- Neath Port Talbot County Borough Council Welfare Rights Unit
- P3 (People, Potential, Possibilities P3) – Yiewsley, Middlesex
- St Andrews Community Network – Liverpool
- The Project – Longbridge, Birmingham
- Welwitschia Welfare Centre – London N17
March 2025
New AQS holders
- Age Concern Tyneside South – South Shields
- Harrow Association of Disabled People – London
- Warwick Students Union – Warwick
Reaccredited services
- Age Concern New Forest – Southampton
- Birmingham Settlement – Kingstanding
- Brent Indian Association Community – London
- Brent Irish Advisory Service (BIAS) – London
- Chinese Community Wellbeing Society – Bristol
- Community Language Support Services – London N4
- Disability Advice Service Lambeth (DASL) – London
- First Love Foundation – London E14
- Haringey Somali Community & Cultural Association ( HSCCA ) – London
- IKWRO – Women’s Rights Organisation – London N7
- Marylebone Bangladesh Society – London
- Nucleus Legal Advice – London SW5
- Terrence Higgins Trust – London N7
- The Girlington Centre Ltd – Bradford
- The North of England Refugee Service Ltd – Newcastle
- Toynbee Hall – London E1
February 2025
New AQS holders
- Community Advice – London N7
- Friends Families and Travellers – Brighton
Reaccredited services
- Asian Women’s Resource Centre (AWRC) – Harlesden, London
- Hopscotch Women’s Centre – Camden, London
- Lewisham Irish Community Centre – London
- No Limits (South) – Southampton
- Royal National Institute of Blind People (RNIB) – Kings Cross, London
- Southwark Day Centre for Asylum Seekers – London
January 2025
New AQS holders
- Anchor Hanover Group (Be Wise) – Bradford
- Women’s Inclusive Team – Bethnal Green, London
Reaccredited services
- Anglia Care Trust – Ipswich
- Auriga Services Limited – Sutton Coldfield
- Day-Mer, Turkish and Kurdish Community Centre – London N16
- Dementia Concern – Ealing, London
- Doorway – Nuneaton
- Kongolese Children’s Association – London N9
- Real DPO Ltd – London E14
- The Advice Centre – The Union – (MMU) Manchester Metropolitan University
- Wapping Bangladesh Association – London E1
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