Pip Salvador-Jones obituary

My friend Pip Salvador-Jones, who has died aged 61 of gall-bladder cancer, was director of Citizens Advice in the London borough of Barking and Dagenham, one of the UK’s most disadvantaged areas. Having started out at North Lewisham law centre in south-east London as an articled clerk, Pip moved on to Hackney Community law centre, where she worked as a solicitor helping, among others, Travellers, tenants’ associations and disabled people’s organisations. Later, as chief executive of the Mary Ward legal centre in central London (2005-08), she doubled that organisation’s size and set up a new programme, Young, Free and Legal, to increase access to legal advice for young people. Her final working spell, from 2010 until her death, was spent at Barking and Dagenham Citizens Advice, where over 15 years she headed initiatives to provide legal aid and advice to people facing evictions, domestic abuse and debt. She also made space in the office car park for a converted bus that served as an LGBTIQ+ homeless shelter. Pip was born in London to Heidi-Jean Salvador, a single mother from the Philippines, who gave her up for adoption. Although her mother had named her Luzviminda, a melding of the