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updated 12th November 2024

Click here for easy read leaflet about our advice services

We have Advice Centres in Bootle and Southport.

Bootle is open Monday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday 10am – 2pm (closed Tuesdays for pre-booked appointments only)

Southport is open Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday 10am-2pm (closed Thursdays for pre-booked appointments only)

We will chat to you to assess your problem and provide you with an appointment with an adviser, unless urgent this is likely to be another day.

The office is also open for pre booked appointments

Click here for address, map and photo of our Centres to help you find us.

Adviceline (general advice): 0808 278 7841 (freephone) Mon to Fri 9.30am – 4.30pm. Our telephone advisers will do an assessment of your advice needs, may give you information that you will find useful, and will be able to refer you for an advice appointment if this is needed.

Our Mind and Money programme provides ongoing help if you’re struggling with the cost-of-living crisis and facing financial and personal wellbeing challenges. To get support through this programme, you can call us 0808 278 7841 (freephone), Mon – Fri 9.30am – 4.30pm, text relay: 03444 111 445 or walk-in to one of our advice centres (see above for information on where they are and opening times).

Focusing on welfare, money advice, debt recovery support and personal confidence, Mind and Money is designed to help you take control of your financial situation and to help you better balance household budgets. If you need financial and personal resilience, welfare, debt management and confidence building through practical support and advice, we can help.

  • Help to understand income maximisation.
  • Support to grow financial and personal confidence.
  • Assist with debt management and reduction
  • Offer improved understanding of heat and energy efficiency, for a help sheet click here
  • Food and fuel vouchers 

For more information on upcoming courses, click here

This project is funded by the UK Government through the UK Shared Prosperity Fund with the Liverpool City Region Combined Authority as the lead authority.  For more information, visit UK Shared Prosperity Fund: prospectus – GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)

Debt advice: 0151 318 6407 need help with Council Tax, rent, catalogue, Credit Cards, mortgages, water, gas/electric arrears?  Pay Day loans? Other debts? Leave a message with your name and telephone number and our Money Advice Team will call you back in office hours (9am-5pm Mon-Fri). 

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We are part of GMMAP  – the Greater Merseyside Money Advice Partnership

For more information on how to get help and support from GMMAP please use  http://www.gmmap.org.uk 

Email advice. We do not give advice by email at the moment

Living Well Sefton 

Are you unsure how to make changes to improve your health and wellbeing?  We provide support for people aged 18+ living in Sefton who may be experiencing one or more of the following: 

  • stress and worry
  • anxiety
  • low self-esteem
  • panic
  • social isolation
  • low mood
  • mental health distress
  • long term health condition 

If you want to take that first step to improve your health and wellbeing contact 0300 323 0181 or for more information visit the Living Well Sefton website

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Tribunal appeals

The PALS project (Partnership of Advice Liverpool and Sefton) is a joint venture between Citizens Advice Sefton and Liverpool Citizens Advice to focus on the problems surrounding Welfare Reform.

Our advisers can help with Employment and Support Allowance, Disability Living Allowance and Personal Independence Payments appeals from Mandatory Reconsideration to Tribunal.

Welfare Reform presents many challenges and the PALS project gives us the ability to try and  address some of these issues.

You will need to call our Adviceline first where they will assess your problem and can refer you to PALS. 

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Advice for in-patients at Clock View. Our adviser provides an advice session on mental health wards for in-patients at Clock View.

We are a Hate Crime Reporting Centre – report an incident

If you are the victim of a hate crime or hate incident you are encouraged to call the Police using 101 or the Police Facebook and Twitter  accounts. If you don’t want to report it to the Police you can make a report to Stop Hate UK using the following:

Stop Hate UK are a registered charity and provide the helpline across Merseyside supported by the Office of the Police and Crime Commissioner. The service is confidential.

You can use the online form to report an incident of hate crime.

What is Hate Crime?

Hate Crime is any criminal offence, which is perceived by the victim, or any other person as being motivated by prejudice or hate. This can be based on the victims actual or perceived race, religious belief, sexual orientation, age, disability or whether the person is transgender.

A victim of hate crime does not necessarily have to be a member of a minority group, or be classed as vulnerable, and incidents may arise because of association.

Hate crime incidents can include:

  • Verbal abuse, threats insults, nuisance telephone calls, name-calling and intimidation
  • Physical assaults and attacks on the person
  • Attacks against the person’s property, for example offensive graffiti, breaking windows, and damaging cars
  • Arson
  • Publishing and distributing leaflets and newspapers that are likely to incite hate crime is a criminal offence
  • Being singled out and being treated differently by other residents because you are not the same as them