Advice Agencies and useful links
If you claim or want help with your rent and/or Council Tax, you may find some of these advice agencies and websites useful.
Advice - Brighton & Hove
A comprehensive directory of local independent advice agencies and national advice helplines. The site includes location maps, links to online self-help and a new webcam service for face to face advice.
Age UK Brighton & Hove
- Age UK, Brighton & Hove website
A free, confidential and impartial information and advice service for local people over 50, their families and carers.
Brighton Housing Trust (Housing Advice Enquiries)
- Tel: (01273) 234737
- Email: advice@bht.org.uk
- Website: www.bht.org.uk
- Address: Community Base 113-117 Queens Road Brighton, BN1 3XG.
- Legal Housing Advice - Drop in Monday, Tuesday Wednesday, Friday, queue from 9.15am - 12.30pm
- Brighton Advice Centre- Monday to Friday 9.30am - 12.30pm and 1.30pm - 4.30pm
Brighton and Hove Food Partnership
Brighton Unemployed Centre Families Project
- Tel: (01273) 671213/601211
- Email: info@bucfp.org
- Website: www.bucfp.org
- Address: 6 Tilbury Place, Brighton, BN2 0GY
- Opening Times: Monday to Wednesday 10.30am - 1pm & 2pm - 4pm
- Thursday 10.30am - 1pm
- Friday 2pm - 4pm.
- Lunch served at 1pm during weekdays
Citizens Advice
- Citizens Advice website
Citizens Advice provides free, independent, confidential and impartial advice to everyone on their rights and responsibilities
GOV.UK Benefits Adviser
What benefits are you entitled to?
Many people are missing out on benefits and tax credits by not knowing that they may be entitled to them. The Benefits Adviser is an online questionnaire to help you find out which benefits and tax credits you and your family may be entitled to. No personal information is required. The Benefits Adviser tool is provided by gov.uk, the UK government’s public services access website: www.gov.uk/benefits-adviser
East Sussex Credit Union
A not-for-profit savings and loans co-operative focusing on the needs of those on low incomes. The credit union offers easy-to-access savings accounts and affordable, flexible loans. It is authorised and regulated by the Financial Services Authority with savings 100% guaranteed by the FSA Compensation Scheme.
- Address: Community Base, 113 Queens Road, Brighton, BN1 3XG
- Help Point (held at Community Base): Mon-Fri 10am - 3pm
- Tel: (01273) 234 858 Mon-Fri 10am - 4pm
- Email: info@credit-union.org.uk
- Website: www.eastsussexcu.org.uk
Housing Options Team
- 01273 294 400
Contact the Housing options advice service to get help to prevent homelessness and look at alternative forms of accommodation.
JobCentre Plus
- Jobcentre Plus website
Jobcentre Plus is part of the Department for Work and Pensions. It pays benefits to people of working age.
Money Advice Plus
- Money Advice Plus Brighton & Hove website
Telephone advice service that provides free and independent debt and benefits advice to Brighton & Hove residents.
Moneyworks Advice line
Money advice available to residents in Brighton & Hove.
- Tel: 0800 988 7037
Opening times
- Monday: 3pm to 7pm
- Tuesday: 9am to 1pm
- Wednesday: 12.30pm to 4.30pm
- Thursday: 12.30pm to 4.30pm
- Friday 10am to 2pm
Website: www.advicebrighton-hove.org.uk
My Life directory
The My Life directory lists services and organisations in Brighton and Hove offering money advice and benefits support.
Possability People
- Possability People website
Contact Possability People to get free, independent information and support for everyone including disabled people, their carers, families and friends.
Private Sector Housing
Contact us if you need help with a private housing problem, or if you have a question about our private housing services.
Refugee Council
- Refugee Council website
National refugee agency offering a range of information, advice and direct services in London and elsewhere in the UK.
Royal British Legion Sussex County Welfare Team
Part of the legion's extensive Poppy Support services. If you are serving, have served or are the dependent or carer of someone who has served in the UK's Armed Forces, then you are eligible for help. The welfare team can offer financial aid in an urgent crisis, help homeless ex-service people get back on their feet, advise on compensation claims, offer careers advice for those looking to make a fresh start after leaving the Forces, arrange home or hospital visits, advise on coping with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and much more.
- Address: The Royal British Legion Pop-In Centre, 100-101 Queens Road, Brighton, East Sussex BN1 3XF
- Tel: 0808 802 8080 (free from UK landlines and main mobile networks)
- Contact details: www.britishlegion.org.uk/counties/sussex/contact-us
- Website: www.britishlegion.org.uk/counties/sussex/how-we-can-help
- Royal British Legion Benefits and Money Advice Service
Shelter
- Shelter website
Shelter is a national charity that helps people struggling with bad housing or homelessness through offering advice, support and legal services.
St Luke's Advice Service
- Tel: (01273) 549203
- Fax: (05603) 432378
- Email: info@stlukesadviceservice.org.uk
- Website: www.stlukesadviceservice.org.uk
- Opening Times: Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday 9.30am - 3.30pm, Friday 9.30am - 1pm
Sussex Interpreting Services
- Sussex Interpreting Services website
Sussex Interpreting Services (SIS) helps people with language needs to get full access to publicly funded services in order to improve health, education and quality of life.
University of Brighton Student Advice Service
- Tel: (01273) 642888
- Address: Moulsecoomb Site, The Tithe Barn, Moulsecoomb Place, Brighton
- Email: studentadvice@brighton.ac.uk
- Website: www.brighton.ac.uk/moneymatters
University of Sussex Students Union Advice & Representation Centre
- Tel: (01273) 877038
- Address: 1st Floor Falmer House, University of Sussex
- Email: advice@ussu.sussex.ac.uk
- Website: www.ussu.info/advice
Youth Advice Centre (YAC)
- YMCA Youth Advice Centre Brighton website
The YMCA Youth Advice Centre (YAC) offers advice, support and guidance to young people in Brighton and Hove.
Working 50 Plus
A local support network that offers help for people aged 50 and over to get back into work.
- Address: The Cornerstone Community Centre, Church Road, Hove
- Website: www.50plusworks.com