At Hugh Jones Solicitors, we work with vulnerable and incapacitated people and their families as our clients.  It is a fundamental to how we want our practice to work, that we get involved in helping, in the communities in which we also do our legal work.

Fundraising and sponsorship

Charities

We are proud to support Skiggle, a non-profit online community for individuals,carers and families seeking care-based essential items.

It was set up by the mum of a client of the firm, Christine Singleton whose eldest, Will, is profoundly disabled and is the inspiration behind Skiggle - read more here.

For the last few years our employees have chosen to support two local charities, both of whom do work with homelessness in the area, and which are supported by two members of the firm on a personal basis.  Funds raised and volunteering time is split between the two charities, Salford Loaves and Fishes and Coffee4Craig.

The Private Client team also works with

• Will Aid each year in November, by offering to write Wills for free in return for a donation to the nine Will Aid charities.  Further information about Will Aid can be found here. 
• Local down syndrome support groups too, most notably the South Manchester Downs Syndrome Support Group.

Volunteering

We encourage staff to become involved in volunteering work or pro bono work, in areas that are allied to our work as a firm and in areas that interest them.  Members of the firm participate in volunteering legal advice at Clinics, working with charities such as Making Space, Age UK, Alzheimer's UK and participating in Will Aid.

Pro bono work

We offer our time free, to help charities or individuals who cannot afford to pay for legal advice or to help them preserve their funds to spend on other things.

In addition to giving free initial advice, where funding is an issue but we feel that a case is of great importance, work for the client a pro bono basis.  

Free information

We regularly give talks to fellow professionals, particularly on the subject of the Mental Capacity Act. We also give talks to charities and their audiences about subjects important to them.

Environment and sustainability

We seek to minimise our impact on the environment in the following ways:

• We recycle all our paper, plastic and metal waste
• We encourage steps including working from home to reduce environmental pollution from the use of transport
• We aim to hold our client files and office information electronically and keep paper files to an absolute minimum.
• All incoming documents will be scanned and saved to our case and practice management system.
• Monitor the environmental policies of service suppliers

Dementia Awareness

Many of our clients live with dementia and, in order ensure we are giving those client’s the best experience, and to promote dementia awareness, we felt it vital to become involved in the Alzheimer’s Society Dementia Action Alliance.  Since then we have:

• Achieved our Dementia Action plan including special pages on our website for those living with Dementia – we are the first solicitors to have done this in each area
• Director Jenny Roberts is a Dementia Champion and has trained many of the firm to become Dementia Friends.
• We give free advice to professionals and third sector volunteers working in the field
• Wide ranging collaboration with the Salford Dementia Institute and the Dementia Action Alliances in Manchester, Bury and Chorlton.
• We have developed Dementia Friendly pages on our website and ensured the whole site can be read in large print.