Our Advice Centres:

The Budgeting Service

Opening Hours

Monday to Friday 9am to 2pm

Finding Us:

c/o Castlemilk Law Centre, 155 Castlemilk Drive (First Floor), Castlemilk, Glasgow G45 9UG.

Contact us:

Tel: 0141 634 0313

Fax: 0141 634 1944

E-mail budgetingservices@yahoo.co.uk

Offers free and confidential advice in the following areas:

Financial Management

Additional services:

Home Visits
Disabled Access

Details of outreach surgeries:

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Staff:

Barbara Brown and Tracy operate the Budgeting Service.

Financial Inclusion Adviser: Diane Valar

How we help you (in more detail)

There are many well established ways of helping people with debt problems. Typically an advisor maximises a client’s income by ensuring all benefits and tax advantages are claimed. Liabilities are reduced by challenging those which may not be enforceable, and rescheduling the remainder in order to minimise current liabilities.

The Law Centre and Castlemilk Budgeting Service recently became more closely connected. The Budgeting Service makes payments on behalf of clients who can credit the Budgeting Service with appropriate payments. This is very much a hands-on service. The Law Centre has been happy to provide support to the Budgeting Service.

The Law Centre also obtained funding for a Financial Capability Advisor. Our new Financial Capability Advisor helps clients become more aware of their income and expenditure, and help them assess their overall debt and appreciate their level of debt repayments and the difficulties involved in this. In this way clients were able to take a much greater control of their finances. The Financial Capability Advisor is able to steer clients away from expensive credit options towards the more manageable facilities based in Credit Unions and the more responsible socially based lenders such as Scotcash.