Five citizens’ advice bureaux in Birmingham are expected to close their doors next week, unless they can raise £50,000 per month to continue, after the city council withdrew all of its £600,000-a-year funding.

Without new money, the City Centre, Northfield, Tyseley, Handsworth and Kingstanding services will close on 11 February. Local firm Blakemores has offered to help fill any advice vacuum by setting up mobile advice units in affected areas, under its Lawyers2you brand.

Yvonne Davies, chief executive of Birmingham’s CAB, said the funding withdrawal would leave 56,000 people facing problems such as homelessness, redundancy and non-payment of benefits without access to independent advice.

A Birmingham City Council spokesman said funding had never been guaranteed beyond any single year.