List of Possible Sources of Assistance in the area of General
Advice Now - Visit Website |
Advicenow is an independent, not-for-profit website providing accurate, up-to-date information on rights and legal issues. |
Community Legal Advice - Visit Website - phone: 0845 345 4345/ 0845 609 6677 (minicom) |
Community Legal Advice is a free and confidential service paid for by legal aid. They are there to help with legal problems. Community Legal Advice is the new name for Community Legal Service Direct. |
Free Representation Unit (FRU) - Visit Website - phone: 020 7611 9555 |
The Free Representation Unit (FRU) is a charity that provides legal advice, case preparation and advocacy in employment, social security, and some immigration and criminal injury compensation tribunal cases. Click here for full details on Free Representation Unit (FRU) |
Langley House Trust - Visit Website - phone: 01993 774075 |
Langley house Trust is residential rehabilitation for ex-offenders. They provide accommodation, training, education and other relevant services to ex-offenders and those at risk of offending within communities. |
Local Government Ombudsman - Visit Website - phone: 0300 061 0614 / 0845 602 1983 |
The Local Government Ombudsmen in England investigate complaints about local authorities and certain other bodies. There are three Local Government Ombudsmen in England, each dealing with complaints from different parts of the country. |
Mailing Preference Service - to stop unsolicited junk mail - Visit Website - phone: 0207 291 3310 |
The Mailing Preference Service (MPS) is a free service set up 20 years ago and funded by the direct mail industry to enable consumers to have their names and home addresses in the UK removed from or added to lists used by the industry. Click here for full details on Mailing Preference Service - to stop unsolicited junk mail |
Money Advice Service - Visit Website - phone: 0300 500 5000 (Helpline) /020 7943 0500 |
Phone and online money advice on a wide range of subjects. |
Multikulti - Visit Website |
Multikulti is a website that provides accessible, accurately translated advice and information in community languages in the following areas: debt, employment, health, education, immigration and racism & discrimination. |
Personal Support Unit - Visit Website - phone: (London) 020 7947 7701 (Manchester) 0161 240 5037 |
The PSU is an independent charity, based in the main building at the Royal Courts of Justice on the Strand in London and at the new Civil Justice Centre in Manchester. The PSU provides non-legal advice, help, information and support to litigants in pr< |
Press Complaints Commission - Visit Website - phone: 0845 600 2757 Helpline; 020 7831 0022 Switchboard |
The PCC is an independent self-regulatory body which deals with complaints about the editorial content of newspapers and magazines (and their websites). |
Telephone Preference Service - Visit Website - phone: 0845 070 0707 |
The Telephone Preference Service [TPS] helps you to make sure your telephone number is no longer available to organisations, including charities and voluntary organisations who may telephone you with offers and information you do not wish to receive. |
The Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman - Visit Website - phone: 0345 015 4033 |
The Ombudsman should be contacted if you need to make a complaint about a UK government department, or one of its agencies or the NHS in England. Click here for full details on The Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman |
The Property Ombudsman (TPO) - Visit Website - phone: 01722 333306 |
TPO provides a free, independent service for dealing with unresolved disputes between sales and letting agents who have joined TPO and consumers who are actual or potential buyers or sellers or landlords or tenants of residential property in the UK. |
Registered Charity number: 1064274
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Correspondence address: National Pro Bono Centre, 48 Chancery Lane, London WC2A 1JF
Registered Office: 5th Floor, 6 St Andrew Street, London, EC4A 3AE