Financial Advice

I have just been looking for tyres and been trying to find some good brand tyres at reasonable price. The tricky part is getting good tyres at low cost, cheap tyres can be bought by anyone with no effort.

People across the UK are missing out on benefits and tax credits worth more than £8 billion a year. Entitledto can help make sure you get what is yours. Just use this simple calculator to work out how much you could claim.

Child Benefit is a tax-free payment that you can claim for your child. It is usually paid every four weeks but in some cases can be paid weekly, and there are separate rates for each child. The payment can be claimed by anyone who qualifies, whatever their income or savings.

We make sure parents who live apart from their children contribute financially to their upkeep by paying child maintenance.

Directgov is the website of the UK government providing information and online services for the public.

Ebico has been leading the way in cutting household energy bills since 1998. As a not-for-profit company, our core aim is to put people before profits – and to provide affordable energy for every home.

Keith Farrell, Independent Mortgage Adviser, and principal of Figtree Mortgages in Bristol, looks at ways in which clients’ chances of approval for a mortgage can be increased in a climate where it appears lenders don’t want to be lenders any more, and where seemingly innocuous “history” can cause havoc with credit profiling.

The worldwide Freecycle Network is made up of many individual groups across the globe. It's a grassroots movement of people who are giving (and getting) stuff for free in their own towns.

Freecycle groups match people who have things they want to get rid of with people who can use them. Our goal is to keep usable items out of landfills.

Help and advice on job hunting and extra support. Help and advice on making or maintaining a benefit claim.

A practical guide to saving money in a variety of ways. Although the website itself is non-commercial, its many links include money-saving offers from a number of different commercial sites.

NHS may be low cost but prescription charges add up.  Use a Prescription Prepayment Certificate (PPC) to save on regular prescriptions.

Tax credits are payments from the government. If you're responsible for at least one child or young person who normally lives with you, you may qualify for Child Tax Credit. If you work, but earn low wages, you may qualify for Working Tax Credit.

When faced with separation or divorce people sometimes wish to know if they are on the Title deeds to a property. If you do not have a copy of the Title deeds to refer to, the Land Registry holds all records of who is on a propertys' Title deeds.

This web site provides information on Titles and how to apply to add your name to the Title deeds if it is not already on them. Just use the web sites' drop down menu under Forms & publications, go to Forms or Public Guides under this heading.

The relevent forms are HR1 to apply or HR2 to re-apply for your name to go on the Title in the forms section. And PG004 is the information about Protecting Matrimonial Home Rights under the Family Law Act 1996. They both open in a new window using Adobe Acrobat Reader.

You can usually contact your local Land Registry office to get advice on how to get copies of your Title deeds and you can also do a search online I believe, (fee may be applicable).