- Local Bolton services
- Credit Reference Agencies - check your credit online.
- Money advice and consumer links
- Trust/grant Funds
- Television
- Other national advice services
Local Bolton services
- Bolton Citizens Advice Service
- Bolton Council - information on all local services, including housing, benefits, council tax etc.
- Bolton's Credit Union (HOOT) - local alternative to banks and building societies.
- Bolton Council's Home Ownership Service - advice and assistance to Bolton home owners experiencing mortgage difficulties.
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Credit Reference Agencies
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Money advice and consumer links
- Business Debtline - free, confidential and independent advice for self-employed people and small businesses.
- Christians Against Poverty - debt counselling charity.
- Consumer Credit Counselling Service (CCCS) - specialist free advisory service.
- Credit Action - has a useful budgeting advice and debt management area on the website.
- Direct.Gov (Money) - for information about money, tax and benefits.
- Direct Gov (Pensions) - includes information on all aspects of pensions.
- Financial Services Ombudsman - for complaints about financial services.
- Martin Lewis - general information on saving money and getting the best deals.
- Money Advice Service - financial advice on everyday money, cards and loans, mortgages and homes, insurance, tax and benefits, savings and investments and pensions and retirement.
- Money Matters to Me - an excellent online practical guide to family finance.
- National Debtline - providing free confidential and independent telephone advice and support to people in debt in England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland.
- Payplan - free confidential advice on debt problems including debt management plans and IVAs.
- TaxAid - offers free tax advice to people in financial need, providing telephone helpline and appointments.
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Trust/grant funds
- Charis Grants - administers grants on behalf of their clients to help those in financial difficulty.
- United Utilities Trust Fund - an independent grant making trust. People unable to meet the cost of water charges and who live in the United Utilities area can apply for help.
- Turn2us - helps people access the money available to them - through welfare benefits, grants and other financial help.
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Television
- T.V. Licensing Service - general information on purchasing a licence and concession rates.
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Other national advice services
- Citizens Advice Bureau - find your local bureau plus online information from Adviceguide.
- Inland Revenue - information on tax.
- Ofgem Energy Best Deal - Advice on saving money by changing energy supplier, tariffs and an awareness on grants available.
