Local Advice Centres
We have mapped and listed all Trust-funded organisations offering free, impartial advice on energy and money below. They provide a wide range of specialist fuel and debt advice services including:
- Financial Assistance Payments (FAP) and emergency fuel vouchers
- Budget planning
- Benefit / income maximisation checks
- Energy supplier / tariff switching exercises
- Resolution of energy debt problems
- Negotiating with energy suppliers
- Completing grant applications to British Gas Energy Trust and other helpful schemes, e.g. Warm Home Discount and ECO schemes and energy companies’ Priority Services Registers
- Desktop Home Energy Efficiency Surveys and specific energy efficiency advice
- Generalist advice on subjects including housing, employment and discrimination, helping to overcome other barriers to financial well-being.
Online debt and money information is also available at www.turn2us.org.uk, www.StepChange.org, National Debtline and on the Citizens Advice national website.
Money and energy advice in the community
British Gas Energy Trust is working with the Post Office and British Gas to run in-person community pop-ups in Post Offices across England, Scotland and Wales. Trained advisors from organisations funded by the Trust will be on hand to talk about the support available to help manage money and energy bills.
Community events – British Gas Energy Trust
Local Trust-funded advice centres by region:
North East
- Citizens Advice Hartlepool
- Citizens Advice Sunderland
- Citizens Advice Doncaster Borough
- Citizens Advice Sheffield & Law Centre
- Citizens advice North Yorkshire
North West
- Citizens Advice Preston and District
- Citizens Advice East Lancashire
- Energy Projects Plus
- Lancashire Women
Midlands
- Citizens Advice Sandwell and Walsall
- Community Law Service
- Citizens Advice North Staffordshire and Stoke on Trent
- St Ann’s Advice
- Zinthiya Trust
South East
- Hastings Advice and Representative Centre
- Bromley by Bow Centre
- Money A+E
- Citizens Advice Essex
- Citizen Advice Swale
- Citizens Advice Hertsmere
- Kidney Care UK
South West
Scotland
- Citizens Advice Dundee
- Money Matters
- THAW Orkney
- The Energy Advisory Service- Tighean Innse Gall
- TLC SCIO
- Children’s Hospices Across Scotland
- Greener Kirkcaldy
- Changeworks
Wales
National
Bromley by Bow Centre – Energy Boost
Their project is designed to provide sustainable solutions to fuel poverty. Their person-centred approach assisting people with their financial situations will help them develop resilience and improve long-term affordability.
Learn moreChangeworks- Energy Saving For All
Changeworks is Scotland’s leading energy efficiency organisation, supporting households to reduce their energy use, their carbon footprint and to better achieve affordable warmth.
Learn moreChildren’s Hospices Across Scotland (CHAS)- Income and Energy Advice Support Service
Children’s Hospices Across Scotland (CHAS) offers support to children with life-shortening conditions and their families through its hospices in Kinross and Balloch, a specialist team in every children’s hospital in Scotland, and in the community.
Learn moreCitizen Advice Swale- Empowering Swale
Empowering Swale is a collaborative, innovative project between Swale Foodbank, Faversham Foodbank and Citizens Advice Swale.
Learn moreCitizens Advice Doncaster Borough- Energy for Everyone
This project seeks to support the most vulnerable in Doncaster with money and energy advice through a targeted community-based response.
Learn moreCitizens Advice East Lancashire- Energy and Debt Advice Action
Citizens Advice East Lancashire (CAEL) and Citizens Advice Blackpool (CAB) work in partnership across three of the most deprived local authority areas in England to provide money and energy advice.
Learn moreCitizens Advice Essex Foodbank Partnership – Tackling Fuel Poverty
Through this project, Citizens Advice Essex has expanded their Fuel Poverty Alleviation Programme, delivered by members of the consortium to focus on Basildon, Chelmsford and Colchester.
Learn moreCitizens Advice Hartlepool- Hartlepool Energy Advice Team (HEAT)
HEAT provides advice and assistance with debt, energy, welfare benefits, housing, grant applications, consumer services and community care issues to everyone in the Hartlepool area.
Learn moreCitizens Advice Hertsmere- Lightbulb: Staying Switched On
The Citizen Advice Hertsmere project targets the most vulnerable people in the Hertsmere community who are struggling with the cost of living.
Learn moreCitizens Advice North Yorkshire- Scarborough Energy Advice
North Yorkshire Citizens Advice & Law Centre (CANY) provides free, confidential and impartial advice and campaigns on big issues affecting people’s lives.
Learn moreCitizens Advice Rhondda Cynon Taff- Energise Your Finances
Energise Your Finances provides advice through outreach partnerships already in place with community organisations and venues.
Learn moreCitizens Advice Sheffield & Law Centre- Energize
Citizens Advice Sheffield's money and energy advisors aim to help clients both in the short term and by providing ongoing casework support.
Learn moreCitizens Advice Staffordshire North and Stoke on Trent- PMW: BGET Energy
The aim for the project is to deliver a comprehensive high quality energy advice service to the most vulnerable households at most risk of fuel poverty.
Learn moreCitizens Advice Sunderland- Warm and Well Sunderland
Their project takes a holistic approach to helping people across Sunderland through maximising income, supporting with budgeting and financial capabilities, energy efficiency and debt management.
Learn moreCitizens Advice Swindon- Energy Help
Citizens Advice Swindon have established a broad range of referral pathways, including third sector agencies as well as engaging with local councillors and MPs, to ensure their project reaches the most vulnerable clients in need of support.
Learn moreCommunity Law Service – Financial Health and Wellbeing Service
Their specialist team provides a fuel poverty advice service including benefits advice, income maximisation, debt and energy efficiency advice and access to low level energy efficiency measures.
Learn moreDundee Citizens Advice Bureau- HOMES Project
Dundee Citizens Advice Bureau- HOMES Project (Helping Optimise Money and Energy Savings) provides a full debt advice service, covering income maximisation, energy advice and tariff switching.
Learn moreEnergy Projects Plus- Liverpool Affordable Warmth Project
Liverpool Affordable Warmth aims to support clients with practical measures, advice and referrals into other organisations.
Learn moreExeter Community Energy- Energy Saving Exeter
Exeter Community Energy aims for renewable energy projects to bring about practical change in the community by addressing energy related challenges.
Learn moreGreener Kirkcaldy- Moneywise, Energy Smart
Greener Kirkcaldy is a community-led charity and development trust working locally to combat the climate emergency, tackle fuel poverty and food insecurity and meet the needs and goals of local people.
Learn moreHastings Advice and Representation Centre (HARC) & Energise Sussex Coast- Energy and Welfare Benefits Advice
Hastings Advice and Representation Centre (HARC) and Energise Sussex Coast (ESC) support people in East Sussex, seeking to maximise the income of people living in poverty through access to welfare, benefits and energy advice.
Learn moreKidney Care UK- Money & Energy Advice Service
Kidney Care UK are the UK's leading kidney patient support charity. They provide support for more than 100 patients every week and invest over £3 million each year in patient grants.
Learn moreLancashire Women- Money and Energy Advice Service
Lancashire Women's Money and Energy Advice seeks to support women with money and energy advice through one-to-one sessions over the phone and in-person.
Learn moreMoney A+E- Money in the Community
Money A+E is an East London-based social enterprise that provides debt and financial capability services to diverse ethnic communities and disadvantaged groups.
Learn moreMoney Matters – BudGET Matters
Money Matters delivers tailored money, welfare, energy and financial advice to vulnerable people to help tackle fuel poverty in Scotland.
Learn moreNavigate Charity- Wis£rMoney
Navigate operates two Trust funded projects across Somerset and Devon, with the aim to improve the quality of life, wellbeing and financial resilience of people living in these rural areas.
Learn morePreston and District Citizens Advice – Fuel Debt Project
They provide help and assistance to individuals and households considered to be fuel poor across the Preston and District area.
Learn moreRiverside Advice – Holistic Welfare Rights Services
Their two Trust funded projects are delivered by expert, qualified and skilled advisors to vulnerable people across Wales.
Learn moreRoyal National Institute of Blind People (RNIB)- British Gas Energy Trust
The Royal National Institute of Blind People (RNIB) Trust funded project provides vital unbiased and impartial energy and income maximisation advice to blind and partially sighted people.
Learn moreSandwell and Walsall Citizens Advice – Budgeting Buddies
Citizens Advice Sandwell and Walsall provides targeted help to clients who are struggling with reduced household income, debt problems, energy debt and energy efficiency issues.
Learn moreSCOPE- Disability Utility Support service (England & Wales)
Scope launched its disability energy support service in 2021 to reach disabled households in vulnerable situations and improve their ability to meet and afford their energy needs.
Learn moreSt Anns Advice – Nottinghamshire Energy project
Their project provides support through appropriately qualified advisors to people who are experiencing high levels of deprivation and poverty across Nottingham.
Learn moreTHAW Orkney – Household Finance, Warmth and Wellbeing
The project works across households in all Orkney communities to reduce levels of fuel poverty, achieve affordable warmth and enable financial and social inclusion by providing bespoke advice.
Learn moreThe Big Issue Group- Fighting Fuel Poverty in England, Scotland & Wales
Big Issue Group is providing vital money and energy advice to members of the Roma community struggling with the cost of living and energy prices.
Learn moreThe Energy Advisory Service, Tighean Innse Gall- Community Energy Outreach
The project's main aim is to empower residents of the Western Isles to make better energy choices and support energy consumers in vulnerable situations.
Learn moreThe Royal Mencap Society (Mencap)- Learning Disability Energy and Money Advice
The Royal Mencap Society (Mencap) provides vital money and energy advice to people with learning disabilities.
Learn moreTLC SCIO- The Aberdeen Energy and Financial Resilience Project
The Aberdeen Energy and Financial Resilience Project is a collaborative client-focused service operating out of Aberdeen North and South Foodbanks delivering holistic money and energy advice.
Learn moreZinthiya Trust – Leicester Money and Energy Project
Specialising in energy, money, debt, housing and domestic abuse issues, the Zinthiya Ganeshpanchan Trust provides a range of support to those most in need in Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland.
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