Signposting Directory
- AdviceNow – information to help you understand your rights and options
- Age UK – information and advice for older people
- Carers UK – advice, information and support
- CPAG – Child Poverty Action Group
- Entitled To – benefits calculator
- Free School Meals – check eligibility and apply
- Gingerbread – advice and information for single parents and their children
- HertsHelp – support, guidance and information
- Macmillan – cancer and financial help
- Mind – mental health charity
- Money Advice Unit – advice about money and benefits, and support to get a job
- Money Helper – free, impartial guidance to make your money and pension choices clearer
- National Union of Students – representing university and college students across the UK
- Policy in Practice – benefits calculator
- Rightsnet – the latest social welfare law developments
- RNIB – Royal National Institute of Blind People
- Scope – disability equality charity
- State Pension – eligibility and how to claim
- Student Finance – check eligibility and help with fees and living costs
- Turn 2 Us – benefits calculator and grants search
- Watford Borough Council – housing, council tax and benefits
- Business Debtline – free debt advice service for the self-employed and small businesses
- Civil Legal Advice – check if you are eligible
- Community Money Advice – free, confidential debt advice
- Debt Advice Foundation – free, confidential debt advice
- Debt Camel – answers to common questions without jargon
- Direct Debit – how to use Direct Debit
- Financial Ombudsman – free service that deals with complaints about financial services providers
- Money Helper – free, impartial guidance to make your money and pension choices clearer
- Money Saving Expert – deals, guides and tips – founded by Martin Lewis
- National Debtline – free, impartial, expert debt advice
- Payplan – free advice on a wide range of debt solutions
- StepChange – free debt advice
- Tax Aid – tax help for anyone on a low income who has been unable to resolve their problem with HMRC
- Tax Help for Older People – help for over 60s on a low income
- Watford Credit Union – local financial co-operative offering regulated financial services
- Age UK – information and advice for older people
- Arkrights – specialists in the provision of housing advice
- Catalyst and Aldwyk – housing associations (now subsidiaries of the Peabody Trust)
- Grow – support for vulnerable, homeless men in and around the Watford area
- Herts Young Homeless – help for young people with housing and support needs
- Housing Ombudsman – if you are unable to resolve a complaint with your landlord directly, the Housing Ombudsman Service may be able to help
- Land Registry – register of the ownership of land and property in England and Wales
- Leasehold Advisory Service – independent advice for residential leaseholders and park home residents
- Luton Law Centre – confidential legal advice
- National Residential Landlords Association – membership organisation for private residential landlords in England and Wales
- New Hope – support for people who are street homeless
- Open Rent – working to make renting fairer, safer and cheaper for everyone
- Oxygen Routes – support for Hertfordshire residents struggling with alcohol and other drugs to maintain a tenancy
- Paradigm Housing – housing association
- Refuge – support and safe temporary accommodation for women and children escaping domestic abuse
- Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors
- Safer Places – outreach services and safe temporary accommodation for anyone escaping domestic abuse
- Shelter – advice and help with housing issues and homelessness
- Thrive Homes – housing assocation
- Watford Borough Council – housing and homelessness advice and support
- Watford Community Housing – housing association
- YMCA – a range of advice and support services including Watford hostel
- Asylum Support Appeals Project – protecting asylum seekers’ legal rights to food and shelter
- British Red Cross – services and support for refugees and people seeking asylum
- East European Resource Centre – advice and support to people from Central and Eastern Europe
- Here for Good – supporting migrants through high-quality legal services and strategic legal work
- Joint Council for the Welfare of Immigration – advice in all areas of asylum and immigration law
- Luton Law Centre – immigration and asylum advice line
- Maternity Action – telephone and email advice to pregnant women and new parents
- Migrant Help – independent advice and guidance to assist people seeking asylum in the UK
- No Recourse to Public Funds (NRPF) Network – entitlement to services and support options for people who have no recourse to public funds
- OISC – search for a regulated immigration adviser
- Rights of Women – legal advice and information to women on the law in England and Wales
- Settled – information, advice and support to EU citizens living in the UK
- Shelter – homeless applications: immigration and residence
- The 3 Million – representing EU citizens in the UK
- The Unity Project – supporting migrants who have no recourse to public funds (NRPF)
- Watford and Three Rivers Refugee Partnership – practical and emotional support to asylum seekers and refugees in West Hertfordshire
- Work Rights Centre – help for migrants to access employment justice
- ACAS – free, impartial advice on workplace rights, rules and best practice
- AdviceNow – information to help you understand your rights and options
- Business Support Helpline – advice and financial help from government-backed schemes
- Employment Rights Guidance in 20 Languages
- Herts Law Clinic – free legal advice from the University of Hertfordshire
- Maternity Action – telephone and email advice to pregnant women and new parents
- Mediation Hertfordshire – resolving conflict and rebuilding relationships
- Rights of Women – legal advice and information to women on the law in England and Wales
- The Law Society – search for a solicitor
- Work Rights Centre – help for migrants to access employment justice
- Action Fraud – where you should report fraud if you have been scammed, defrauded or experienced cyber crime
- Advice Now – information to help you understand your rights and options
- Citizens Advice Consumer Helpline
- International Consumer Centre – advice when you encounter problems buying goods and services from outside of the UK
- Money Saving Expert– deals, guides and tips – founded by Martin Lewis
- Which? – the UK’s consumer champion
- AdviceNow – information to help you understand your rights and options
- Age UK – information and advice for older people
- Bereavement Advice Centre – a free helpline and web-based information service provided by Co-op Legal Services
- CAFCASS – Children and Family Court Advisory and Support Service, representing the interests of children and young people in the family court
- Child Maintenance Service – options for arranging child maintenance
- Coram Children’s Legal Centre – free legal information, advice and representation
- CourtNav – online tool to help you complete an application for non-molestation and/or occupation orders
- Cruse Bereavement Support – bereavement support, information and campaigning
- Families Need Fathers – supporting dads, mums, and grandparents to maintain positive relationships with their children
- Family Lives – provides targeted early intervention and crisis support to families
- Family Rights Group – working with parents whose children are in need, at risk or are in the care system & with kinship carers who are raising children unable to remain at home
- FLOWS – a legal support service designed to help protect women against domestic abuse
- Galop – LGBT+ anti-abuse charity
- Gingerbread – advice and information for single parents and their children
- Herts Law Clinic – free legal advice from the University of Hertfordshire
- Herts Adult Services – Hertfordshire County Council
- Herts Childrens Services – Hertfordshire County Council
- Herts Sunflower – Herts Domestic Abuse Helpline
- Hourglass – information and support to an older person or anyone concerned about an older person who is at risk of, experiencing or recovering from any form of abuse or neglect
- Independent Parental Special Education Advice – free, independent legal advice and support to families of children and young people with SEND
- Juno – a support service for survivors of sexual violence
- Mediation Hertfordshire – resolving conflict and rebuilding relationships
- Mens Advice Line – helpline for male victims of domestic abuse
- National Association of Child Contact Centres – providing safe spaces where children can meet the parents they don’t live with
- National Domestic Violence Helpline – 24 hours a day, seven days a week, 365 days a year
- National Family Mediation – help for families in conflict, especially those divorcing or separating
- RCJ Advice – legal advice to people with a court case in the civil and family courts in England and Wales
- Refuge – support and safe temporary accommodation for women and children escaping domestic abuse
- Relate (London North West) – mediation, counselling and support services
- Resolution – family justice professionals helping families dealing with separation and divorce
- Rights of Women – a charity that provides free confidential legal advice and information to women on the law in England and Wales
- Separated Dads – help, advice and support for separated fathers
- Southall Black Sisters – services aimed at helping Black and minoritised women live free from all forms of violence and abuse
- Watford Women’s Centre – for all women, offering information, support, education and signposting, with a women only space available at the centre
- Women’s Aid – national charity working to end domestic abuse against women and children
- Citizens Advice Witness Service – free, independent support for people in need of support at a criminal court in England or Wales
- Civil Legal Advice – check if you are eligible
- Court and Tribunal Finder – contact details and information on courts and tribunals
- Court Form Finder – court and tribunal forms for divorce, probate, deed poll, money claim, help with fees, social security tribunals and others
- Herts Law Clinic – free legal advice from the University of Hertfordshire
- Information Commissioners Office – find out about your data protection and information rights including how to make a subject access request
- Law Society – – search for a solicitor
- Legal Aid – check if you can get legal aid
- McKenzie Friends – support in court for those unrepresented by a solicitor
- RCJ Advice – legal advice to people with a court case in the civil and family courts in England and Wales
- Solicitors Regulation Authority – monitoring solicitors and protecting consumers of legal services
- Victim Support – supporting victims of crime and traumatic incidents in England and Wales
- AdviceNow – information to help you understand your rights and options
- Disability Law Service – fighting injustice for disabled people
- Disability Rights UK – factsheets and guides providing information about benefits, tax credits, social care and other disability related issues
- Equality Advisory Support Service – advice and assistance on issues relating to equality and human rights
- Equality and Human Rights Commission – enforcing equality legislation on age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex and sexual orientation
- Galop – LGBT+ anti-abuse charity
- Herts Law Clinic – free legal advice from the University of Hertfordshire
- Mind – mental health charity
- Stonewall – fighting for the freedom, equity and potential of LGBTQ+ people everywhere
- British Red Cross – providing practical, local and emotional support to people around the UK
- Council Tax – information and support from Watford Borough Council
- Herts Complex Needs Service: Turning Point – supporting adults with mental health needs and other complex health and social care issues
- HMRC – the UK’s tax, payments and customs authoritya
- Low Incomes Tax Reform Group
- NHS Choices – choosing where you have your NHS treatment
- Reach Out Hertfordshire – provides companionship and practical support to older people who are medically vulnerable and are home from hospital
- Samaritans – if you are having a difficult time
- School Admissions – apply for a school place and research primary, junior, middle, secondary and upper schools in Hertfordshire
