Links - personal finances, safety and security


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comparison sites for personal finance products and utility bills

  • EnergyHelpline
    • Energyhelpline.com helps save money on their gas & electricity, home phone and heating insurance through a price comparison service. Once they have found the right service for them they can sign up by filling in a few simple details and we do the rest of the admin for the. The service is free of charge, impartial and independent.

  • MoneyExpert
    • MoneyExpert is probably best known for it's cost comparison tools and tables best buy recommendation, but it also contains numberous pages of useful information.

  • Money Saving Expert.com
    • MoneySavingExpert.com is the website for tips and advice from Martin Lewis who seems to always be on the radio and television.

  • Motley Fool
    • The Motley Fool website, books and newspaper articles have been giving advice on tax, savings and money in general for a number of years.

  • SimplySwitch
    • SimplySwitch is an independent and completely free price comparison and switching service mainly dealing with household utilities. This service includes cost calculators which take into account all key information including location, provider, payment method and price.

  • UKPower
    • UKPower.co.uk helps save money on their gas and electricity bills through their free, impartial gas and electricity comparison and switching service. The calculator takes input from the user and returns results based on their location, current supplier and tariff.

  • uSwitch.com
    • uSwitch.com is a free, impartial online comparison and switching service that helps consumers compare prices on gas, electricity, home telephone, digital tv and broadband providers. Our aim is to help customers take advantage of the best tariffs and services on offer from every supplier. The company has developed a series of calculators that evaluate a number of key factors including price, location, service and payment method, and advises consumers on the best deal to suit their needs.

credit reference agencies


UK credit reference agancies

Statutory Credit Reports

financial (and debt) advice and information links

  • AdviceGuide.org (Citizens Advice Bureau online)
    • The best way of describing AdviceGuide.org is of a compilation of all the information commonly asked for at Citizens Advice Bureau, but contained in one website.

  • Consumer Credit Counselling Service (CCCS)
    • The Consumer Credit Counselling Service is a national charity dedicated to providing advice and inforamtion related to debt and budgeting issues.

  • CreditAction
    • CreditAction is a national charity which provides money related education and aims to help people manage (and understand) their finances better.

  • Finance Victims
    • As the website's name might suggest, advice and articles on Finance Victims tends to focus on people's negative involvement with financial institutions (and ways that they fought back).

  • MoneyBasic UK
    • MoneyBasics aims to provide simple, clear, independent information about money and features a nubmer of articles and resources to help with this.

  • MoneyExpert
    • MoneyExpert is probably best known for it's cost comparison tools and tables best buy recommendation, but it also contains numberous pages of useful information.

  • Money Saving Expert.com
    • MoneySavingExpert.com is the website for tips and advice from Martin Lewis who seems to always be on the radio and television.

  • Motley Fool
    • The Motley Fool website, books and newspaper articles have been giving advice on tax, savings and money in general for a number of years.

  • National Debtline
    • The National Debtline website provides information on finance (and debt) issues and also includes a selection of sample letters.

  • TaxAid
    • TaxAid is a charity dedicated to helping people on low incomes who run into difficulties with HM Revenue and Customs. Their website provides clear information about tax which can help anyone who is having problems (as well as people who want to understand tax better to avoid problems cropping up in the future).

  • This Is Money
    • The This Is Money website has a similar feel to newspaper financial supplements and offers advice and information on a wide range of financial matters.

credit monitoring and identity theft prevention services

  • checkmyfile.com
    • checkmyfile.com is independent of the UK's credit reference agencies, but uses details from all three agencies to monitor your credit on your behalf.

  • CreditExpert
    • CreditExpert is an online consumer credit monitoring and identity fraud prevention service from Experian. This allows you access to your Experian credit report and provides Weekly alerts of significant changes to your Experian credit report. In addition it offers advice and tips on how to manage and improve your credit rating.

  • myCallcredit
    • myCallcredit is the consumer focussed credit monitoring and identity theft protection service provided by CallCredit.

inventory systems for personal possesions and information

  • The Contents Safe
    • The Contents Safe is software inventory application. It allows you to complete a home/office asset list which could prove to be invaluable when a loss situation arises or even when moving home (Insurance/Police recommend it). Details of individual items such as make, model, location, purchase price/from, receipt number, along with photographs or scanned images can be easily stored.

  • FamilySafePlus+
    • FamilySafePlus+ provides a secure online account that allows you to store important information about family members, travel / holiday details and important personal / home information. Each family gets a unique ID number which allows them to access this information from anywhere in the world, either online or via a help line.

mobile phone tracking services

  • ChildLocate
    • ChildLocate enables parents to locate their children's mobile phones anywhere in the UK

  • Locate Mobiles.com
    • LocateMobiles is a business focussed mobile phone tracking service.

  • MobileLocate
    • MobileLocate is aimed at the corporate and SME market and enables companies to locate their fleet and mobile workforce with the use of mobile phones.

  • Trace a Mobile.com
    • Trace a Mobile.com is a friends and family version of commercial mobile phone tracing services from the same company.