Advice Link Team The Advice Link Team is a small team comprising: • Pam Cochrane – Coordinator • Jill Farrar – Special Projects Officer • Janine Bradley – Business Manager • Hannah Cassidy – Outreach Worker • Judith Westwood – Outreach Worker •Dean Stockwell – Debt Advice Development & Caseworker · John Dempsey – Debt Caseworker · Nicola Wilson – Debt Caseworker Their role is to support the activities of the partners and co-ordinate on project work the partners cannot tackle alone. This includes: • Publicity • Arranging roadshows and conferences • Welfare Benefit take up campaigns • Information distribution to hospitals and employers • Training for key workers/volunteers • Talks to interested groups

2007 saw the launch of the new Advice Link Money Advice Team. Dean Stockwell, John Dempsey and Nicola Wilson. Having all previously spent several years working for Citizens Advice Bureau, the team provide additional, and much needed, debt advice services to Blackpool residents. Advice Link has a duty of confidentiality towards customers who seek advice in confidence. All advice and help is independent, unbiased and free from influence from any other quarter.