Welfare, legal and financial advice

Below is a list of useful contacts offering welfare, legal and financial advice to the residents of Charnwood.

We do not necessarily endorse or recommend any of the following links or services.

Visit the Gov.uk website for information and advice about entitlements, benefits, legal matters, allowances, grants, financial difficulties and debt.

Charnwood Welfare Provision

Besides looking in the local press for legal help and support, you can also visit the following websites:

Citizens Advice Bureau (CAB)
Look in the local press
Legal Services Commission website for advice on how to find legal information and help

If you are on a low income Legal Aid may pay for your solicitor.

Age Uk - The new force combining Age Concern and Help the Aged to form the largest charity working with and for older people.
- Tel: 0116 299 2233

Charnwood Citizens Advice Bureau offers free, confidential, impartial and independent help and advice on a wide range of subjects including debt, benefits, housing, legal, discrimination, employment, immigration, consumer and other problems.
- Tel: 01509 221220

FreeDA - Debt Advice to help you understand your money problems. The service is free to anyone with personal debt problems living in Shepshed.
- Tel: 07500 721275

PACE - Enquire is an information, advice and guidance service specialising in the area of debt, but are also able to signpost service users to a local source of help for other issues.
- Tel: 01509 211194

Home Start - Provides support to parents and families who are struggling to cope for many reasons including post-natal illness, disability, bereavement, the illness of a parent or child, or social isolation.
- Tel: 0800 0686368

LHA-Direct - from the Valuation Agency - Information about Local Housing Allowance, including a bedroom calculator and a full search facility by postcode or Local Authority area.

Pension Credit from Directgov aims to combat poverty amongst pensioners.
- Tel: 0800 991234

Sure Start is the Government's programme to deliver the best start in life for every child by bringing together early education, childcare, health and family support.
- Tel: 0116 3055993

Tax Credits from Revenues and Customs - Information about Tax Credits for disabled people, people with children and people of working age, including how to make a claim.
- Tel: 0845 3003900

Clockwise Credit Union - Clockwise is a not-for-profit organisation which provides affordable loans, safe savings and ethical financial products and services.
- Tel: 0116 2423900‎
Step Change Debt Charity offer free, impartial help to anyone in the UK with debt problems.
- Indevidual Voluntary Arrangement
- Debt Remedy
- Tel: 0800 138 1111
Stop Loan Sharks - Providing support to those that have been a victim of a loan shark or want to report one.
- Tel: 0116 2423900‎

Last updated: Tue 14th December, 2021 @ 10:35