☞ Advise Us is our project-in-development, a work-in-progress experiment where we’re following our interest in the topic of advice and seeing where it takes us. Things might shift and change, but this is where we’re at right now…
Do you know the best way to survive an apocalypse, how to heal a lovers’ quarrel, or remove that pesky stain? Tell us! We’re all ears.
At Advise Us, you can contribute and receive advice on all sorts of topics – from love and sex to DIY and boredom, from dealing with anxiety or grief, to parenting, cutting hair or poaching an egg. It’s a space to share our collective wisdom about the world, a field guide to living now at a time when we need it most.
It’s more than 80 years since the original Citizens Advice Bureaux were opened by community “people of standing” in local cafés, church halls and mobile horseboxes. Soon they became a countrywide movement giving advice on a range of issues including housing, health and finance. Today, with politicians floundering, experts doubted, and plenty of our own issues, what citizen’s advice can we share among each other about anything and everything, large or small, niche or broad?
Advise Us continues our reimagining of the local High Street, and will be popping up in places around the UK. We’re asking anyone and everyone to give their ultimate advice – and receive someone else’s in return. So come whisper your most sage words into the giant ear, have your photo taken to display on our advice wall, and take a copy home with you. Or give it to a friend – you never know when they might need it!