Independent Advice
The following are organisations and charities that can offer you independent advice and assistance to deal with your debt and other problems.
Please click on the names to visit the relevant website.
Independent debt advice companies:
- Step Change Debt Charity - registered charity which assists people with free debt advice
- Payplan - provides free help with debt management solutions to people
- Christians against Poverty (CAP) - a national debt counselling charity
- National Debtline - gives advice to people with debt within England. Scotland & Wales
- Debt Action NI - offers free, confidential and impartial debt and money advice within Northern Ireland
- Advice4DebtNI - Government funded, independent debt advice for the people of Northern Ireland
- Money Advice Scotland - acts as a portal to free and impartial money advice agencies in Scotland
- Consumer Direct - provides consumer advice
- Citizens Advice Bureau - helps people resolve their legal, money and other problems
- Community Legal Advice - provides advice on legal rights through Legal Aid. You can download a “Dealing with Debt” fact sheet from their website
- The Insolvency Service - provides advice to the public on insolvency and redundancy matters
- Legal Services Commission - The Community Legal Service (CLS) is a network of organisations that funds, provides and promotes civil legal services. The CLS helps with problems such as family breakdown, debt and housing
Other Consumer help sites:
- Advicenow – offers advice on rights and legal issues by acting as a portal for access to relevant sites
- Gingerbread - provides help and support for single parent families
- Age UK – seeks to free older people from poverty, isolation and neglect (Help the Aged and Age Concern charities have merged together)
