Getting help with Redundancy

There are many agencies and organisations which may be able to help you. Here we summarise some of these resources. If you have found other useful sources of help, then please contact us so that we can add them to this website.

What government help and benefits are available to jobseekers?

 
• DirectGov provides general advice to jobseekers
• Jobcentre Plus provides more specific advice on job searching and claiming unemployment benefit
• Government guide to Benefits and Financial Support is the official source of information
• Citizens Advice Bureau guide to Benefits is an alternative source of help

Coping with unemployment

In addition to popping in to our clinic, here are some on-line resources that you may find useful:

 
• BBC guide to coping with unemployment
• Managing change
• Redundancy counselling
• Martin Lewis’s Redundancy Help

Careers advice

  
• NEXT STEP career advice includes useful career profiles, CV builder, training advice etc.
• Prospects provides useful graduate focussed career advice, job-searching information, etc.

Health

Organisation	Tel
Local doctors
Mind	0845 766 0163
Samaritans - National	0845 790 90 90
Samaritans - Local (Enfield)	0208 889 6888
Cruse (Bereavement)

Debt & Housing

Organisation	Tel
CAP Money	0781 302 4585
CAP Money St Barnabas
Debt Advice Foundation	0800 043 4050
Citizens Advice Bureau (Finchley)	0844 826 9336
National Debt Line	0808 808 4000
Consumer Credit Counselling Service	0800 138 1111
Shelter – housing and homeless	0808 800 4444
St.Mungo’s – housing and homeless website
Homeless Action in Barnet	0208 446 8400