Links
- Advice
- Leaseholder and Shared Ownership
- Housing Benefit
- Northern Lights Group
- National Organisations
Advice
- Citizens Advice
- The Citizens Advice service helps people resolve their legal, money and other problems by providing free information and advice.
- Consumer Credit Counselling Service
- If you are seeking help with your debts, make sure you don’t have to pay for it. Charities such as the Consumer Credit Counselling Service (CCCS) can provide you with all the services, help and support you need to be debt free without costing you a penny. To get started, use their online assessment tool, CCCS Debt Remedy, which will give you personalised budgeting and free debt advice specific to your situation. You can also call the freephone helpline 0800 138 1111 to speak to a Debt Counsellor.
- AdviceKit
- AdviceKit is the Manchester City Council’s free and confidential online advice and information service available to all Manchester residents and employees of Manchester City Council. They provide advice about council services, benefits, pensions and tax credits, debt, housing rights and homelessness, consumer law and basic immigration rights.
- Directgov
- Directgov brings together information from across UK government departments, including information about housing, travel, benefits and rights.
- Age UK
- Age UK is the new force combining Age Concern and Help the Aged. Age UK promotes the well-being of all older people to help make later life a fulfilling and enjoyable experience. They offer advice about finance, rights at work, healthcare, housing, benefits, discrimination and much more.
- ABCUL Credit Unions
- The home site of the Association of British Credit Unions Ltd, the main trade association for credit unions.
- National Debtline
- The helpline that provides free confidential and independent advice on how to deal with debt problems.
- Money Made Clear
- Impartial information from the Financial Services Authority.
- Now Let’s Talk Money
- The “Now Let’s Talk Money” campaign offers a free phone service, provided by the government, to help people on low incomes.
- Turn2us
- Turn2us helps people access the money available to them—through welfare benefits, grants and other financial help.
Leaseholder and Shared Ownership
- Leaseholder Advisory Service (LEASE)
- The Leasehold Advisory Service provides free advice on the law affecting residential long leasehold property and commonhold.
- Residential Property Tribunal Service
- The Residential Property Tribunal Service is the public body that can decide many rent and leasehold disputes.
- Homebuy
- The Communities and Local Government guide to shared ownership schemes.
- Plumlife
- Plumlife provide housing solutions for people who cannot afford to buy a home outright across Greater Manchester and Lancashire.
Housing Benefit
- Bolton Metropolitan Borough Council
- Phone: 01204 331590
- Fax: 01204 331509
- Email: housing.benefits@bolton.gov.uk
- Bury Metropolitan Borough Council
- Telephone: 0161 253 5008
- Minicom: 0161 253 7408
- Email: HousingBenefits@bury.gov.uk
- Macclesfield Borough Council
- Phone: 01625 504898
- Minicom: 01625 504808
- Email: benefits@macclesfield.gov.uk
- Manchester City Council
- Phone: 0161 219 6100
- Minicom: 0161 953 8301
- Fax: 0161 455 1130
- Email: benefit.enquiries@manchester.gov.uk
- Rochdale Metropolitan Borough Council (by area)
- Central and West Rochdale: 01706 864093
- East Rochdale and Pennines: 01706 864046
- Heywood and Middleton: 01706 864094
- Fax: 01706 866186
- Email: revenues.benefits@rochdale.gov.uk
- City Of Salford
- Phone: 0161–909 6506 (council tenants) or 0161–909 6504 (private sector)
- Email: revenues@salford.gov.uk
- Stockport Metropolitan Borough Council
- Phone: 0845 644 4303
- Fax: 0161 477 5442
- Email: benefits@stockport.gov.uk
- Tameside Metropolitan Borough Council (by area)
- Denton
- Phone: 0161 342 3708
- Fax: 0161 342 2012
- Email: team1.benefits@tameside.gov.uk
- Droylsden
- Phone: 0161 342 3709
- Fax: 0161 342 2012
- Email: team3.benefits@tameside.gov.uk
- Trafford Metropolitan Borough Council
- Phone: 0161 912 2220
- Fax: 0161 253 7408
- Email: benefits@trafford.gov.uk
- GM Benefits
- This website gives lots of useful information about claiming Housing Benefit and Council Tax Benefit in a number of Greater Manchester authorities (Bolton, Bury, Manchester, Rochdale, Salford, Stockport, Tameside, Trafford).
Northern Lights Group
- Northern Lights Group
- The Consortium was formed in response to the Housing Corporation’s policy ‘Re-inventing Investment’, whose principal aim is to bid and receive allocations to develop new homes.
- Accent Group
- Accent Group is a Community Investment Business made up of operational management companies, stock owning subsidiaries and corporate business support and governance departments.
- Arawak Walton Housing Association
- Arawak Walton has been providing affordable homes in Manchester specialising in meeting the complex housing needs of Black and Minority Ethnic communities.
- Equity Housing Group
- Equity Housing Group is a not for profit organisation providing a wide range of affordable housing to rent or to buy in Cheshire, Derbyshire, Greater Manchester, Merseyside, Yorkshire and Shropshire.
- “Johnnie” Johnson Housing
- “Johnnie” Johnson Housing Trust is a not-for-profit organisation providing over 4,300 homes in northern England and Wales.
- Muir Group Housing Association
- Muir Group is a registered social landlord and an exempt charity with around 4,500 properties.
- St Vincent’s Housing Association
- St Vincent’s has been delivering housing and services in the north west of England for over 30 years.
National Organisations
- Chartered Institute of Housing
- The Chartered Institute of Housing is the professional body for people working in housing across the UK.
- Tenant Service Authority
- The new regulator for social housing, which took over much of the regulatory powers of the Housing Corporation.
- Housing Corporation
- The Housing Corporation was the non-departmental public body that funds and regulates housing associations in England. It has now been superceded by the Tenant Service Authority and the Homes & Communities Agency. The old Housing Corporation website is still accessible and contains information that has not yet been moved to the TSA or HCA sites.
- Homes & Communities Agency
- The Homes and Communities Agency is the new non-departmental public body that funds new affordable housing in England.
- Housing Ombudsman Service
- The Housing Ombudsman Service considers complaints against member organisations, and deals with other housing disputes.
- National Housing Federation
- The National Housing Federation supports and promotes the work that housing associations does and campaigns for better housing and neighbourhoods.
- Shelter
- Shelter helps people fight for their rights, get back on their feet, and find and keep a home.
