We hope that the links below will point you in the right direction for your needs. If you think that we have missed anything, please let us know:
Homes and Communities Agency
Tenant Services Authority
Care Quality Commission
Money Advice
The Money Advice Trust - a charity formed to increase the quality and availability of free, independent money advice to people with debt problems
The UK Insolvency Helpline - free national debt advice service
Citizens’ Advice Bureau - helps people resolve their legal, money and other problems by providing free information and advice from over 3,000 locations, and by influencing policymakers
National Debt Line - the helpline that provides free confidential and independent advice on how to deal with debt problems
Credit Action – advice about money management
Child Support Agency - making sure parents who live apart from their children contribute financially to their upkeep by paying child maintenance
Benefit Enquiry Line
Disability Allowance Line
Utility Providers
uSwitch - a free, impartial online and phone based comparison and switching service that helps customers compare prices on a range of services including gas, electricity, home phone, broadband providers and personal finance products
National Grid
General Advice
Secure your home - advice on how to keep your home safe
Homeswapper - the home swap community
Locallife - your one stop wesbite for local information
Life in Lozells - blog and stories from Lozells, Birmingham
Men's Advice Line - for men in abusive relationships
Women's Aid - for women in abusive relationships
Supporting People - offering vulnerable people the opportunity to improve their quality of life by providing a stable environment which enables greater independence
Help the Aged - an international charity fighting to free disadvantaged older people from poverty, isolation and neglect
Age Concern - the UK's largest charity working with and for older people
Shelter – helping people fight for their rights, get back on their feet and find and keep a home
Samaritans - provides confidential non-judgemental emotional support, 24 hours a day for people who are experiencing feelings of distress or despair, including those which could lead to suicide