Health and Adult Social Care
Age UK provide a local information and advice service that covers a wide range of issues including welfare benefits, legal help, information and advice on care home issues, money matters, debt, consumer and utility bill issues and many other areas.
When you're thinking about your care and support needs for the future, it may help to speak to a qualified independent financial adviser. An independent financial advisor can help you to understand the plans you need to make when looking at funding future care services. Information about what to check when choosing an independent financial advisor, and how to find one.
Brighton Unemployed Centre Families Project (BUCFP) was set up in 1981 and is a registered charity. BUCFP provide practical support, education, advice, lunch clubs and much more to the unemployed, those in poor living conditions, benefit claimants, pensioners, families and those on low incomes.
Although banks must ensure that everyone has equal opportunity to use their products and services, even simple tasks such as withdrawing cash can prove challenging. Choose goes through some of the issues, and what various banks are doing to make things simpler for blind and partially sighted people to use banking services.
Citizens Advice aim to provide the advice people need for the problems they face and improve the policies and practices that affect people's lives. They provide free, independent, confidential and impartial advice to everyone on their rights and responsibilities. They value diversity, promote equality and challenge discrimination.
Citizens Advice aim to provide the advice people need for the problems they face and improve the policies and practices that affect people's lives. They provide free, independent, confidential and impartial advice to everyone on their rights and responsibilities. They value diversity, promote equality and challenge discrimination.
A national debt advice charity that offers free, confidential support and advice to anyone worried about debt. They can offer you information on what options are available based on your own personal circumstances.
A national guide to grants provided by UK charities or trusts, offering information to those with a disability, and to those caring for someone with a disability.
An Access to Work grant can pay for practical support if you have a disability, health or mental health condition to help you start working, stay in work or move into self-employment or start a business. The grant is not for business start-up costs.
A budgeting loan can help pay for various things including:
Check if you are eligible on the GOV.UK website.
If you are a disabled person, you have rights to protect you from discrimination. GOV.UK has information about employment, education and dealing with the police.
Information about blue badge parking, vehicle tax exemption and VAT relief, the motability scheme and public transport.