Useful Links

If you need help and advice about Benefits & Money, Moving Home, Housing or Community, you should be able to find something to help here. This links page has been developed with our tenants – if you have any suggestions for other useful websites to link to, or you want to join our website panel, please contact Emma Ruane at emma.ruane@unityha.co.uk or call 0113 2007743.

Benefits & Money

• Cheaper utility bills
  Impartial advice on the cheapest energy supplier in your area.
• Consumer Credit Counselling Service
  CCCS is a charity dedicated to providing confidential, free counselling and money management assistance to financially distressed families.
• Housing Benefit
  A direct link to housing benefit.
• Leeds City Credit Union
  Leeds Credit Union is one of the most successful in the UK.Members are encouraged to save for the future in return for a range of financial services.
• Moneyfacts.co.uk - the money search engine
  An independant website that gives you the best deals on savings, banking, life assurance, pensions and mortgages.
• National Debtline
  A national telephone helpline for people with debt problems in England, Scotland and Wales.
• The Benefits Agency
  Information on all types of Benefits

Moving Home

• Council House and Housing Association Exchanges
  Adverts from tenants all over Britain who are looking for someone to swap homes with.
• Leeds Homes
  This website can help you in four ways;Homes to let;Leeds Housing Register;Exchanges;Social Landlords
• Man with a Van and much more
  A local service for house removals, and lots more.
• My4walls
  My4walls helps make home ownership in West and South Yorkshire affordable through the HomeBuy schemes.

Housing

• Chartered Institute of Housing
  Professional organisation for people who work in housing.
• HousingUK.Org
  A guide to housing resources on the net.
• Independent Housing Ombudsman
  The Independent Housing Ombudsman deals with complaints between housing associations and their tenants.
• Leeds Homes
  The Leeds Homes home page has links to all the major housing associations and ALMOs in Leeds
• The Housing Corporation
  The public body that funds and regulates housing associations.
• The National Housing Federation
  The umbrella organisation for housing associations.

Community

• Community Legal Service
  The aim of the Community Legal Service is to ensure that people can get information and advice about their legal rights and help with enforcing them.
• Groundwork Leeds
  Groundwork Leeds works with all parts of the community to improve the environment.
• IMPaCT Intensive Neighbourhood Management
  IMPaCT is a partnership of organisations and services working in the Chapeltown/Harehills area,dedicated to improving where people live and work.
• Information for Mental Health
  This website will give you information on all relevant mental health organisations in Leeds
• Leeds City Council
• Leeds Community Safety
  A guide to some of the ways crime and anti-social behaviour are being tackled in Leeds.
• Leeds Voice
  An independent organisation that promotes the work of voluntary and community organisations in Leeds.
• Mind
  Mind is one of the leading mental health charity's in England.They can provide a wide selection of leaflets and links to other organisations
• re'new
  re'new aim to help build sustainable communities in Leeds by assisting in the development of regeneration and housing strategy.
• Refugee Access
  A great website for asylum seekers and recent refugees to the UK. Its links page has a great section on "asylum myths and facts" .
• Resourcing the Community
  A local organisation,based in Harehills,providing community development, training and funding. Great links page for funding advice.
• Shaw Trust
  A national charity providing training and work opportunities for those disadvantaged due to disability, or other social circumstances.
• Talk to Frank
  As well as containing alot of information about drugs and a freephone helpline, the "finding support" page has a postcode search facility.
• Tenant Participation Advisory Service
  A national non-profit making organisation that provides information, advice, training, consultancy, seminars and conferences on tenant involvement.

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