Useful links

Signpost

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

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