Local Debt Help Guide for Cambridge

Cambridge is likely to suffer heavily from government cuts announced in the Comprehensive Spending Review. With this in mind, we have prepared this Free Debt Help Guide for Cambridge.

The percentage of Cambridge’s workforce currently employed in the public sector is a massive 43%, meaning the planned public sector job cuts are set to hit Cambridge especially hard.

According to the government, up to ½ million public sector jobs will be lost through the cuts, although some economists put the figure closer to 725,000.

As well as these measures having a dramatic impact on regions like Cambridge where the workforce relies heavily on the public sector, their effect will be exacerbated by reductions in the welfare budget, including housing benefits, Child Benefit and Child Tax Credit.

Anonymous free debt counselling online from CCCS

Debt advice is readily available and there is never any need to pay for it. Here at CCCS, we offer free, confidential debt advice through our online Debt Remedy service.

Local free debt help in Cambridge

A number of local advice centres in Cambridge also offer free advice and debt help. See them listed below or use this map to find them:

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Cambridge Citizens’ Advice Bureau
66 Devonshire Road,
Cambridge CB1 2BL
Tel: 0844 848 7979
www.cambridgecab.org.uk

Cambridge CAB gives general advice on many subjects, including debt and has access to debt caseworkers.

Drop-in sessions:
Monday-Friday, 9.30am-1pm

Telephone advice on 0844 848 7979:
Monday-Friday, 2-4pm

Cambridge City Council
Customer Service Centre
Mandela House, 4 Regent Street,
Cambridge CB2 1BY
Tel: 01223 457 000
www.cambridge.gov.uk

The council’s website has links to various debt help guides including:

Money advice for tenants

Cambridge Credit Union
82 Akeman Street,
Cambridge CB4 3HG
Tel: 01223 314664
www.cambridgecreditunion.org.uk

You can join Cambridge Credit Union if you live or work within Cambridge.

Once you've been saving with the Credit Union for 13 weeks you can apply for a loan.

Cambridge Money Advice Centre (MAC)
Barnwell Baptist Church,
Howard Road,
Cambridge CB5 8QS
Tel: 01223 727 455
www.mac-cambridge.org.uk

Telephone to make a debt advice appointment.

Their website also has a useful Jargon Buster tool, translating financial speak into plain English.

Cambridge re-use
Unit H, The Paddocks,
347 Cherry Hinton Road,
Cambridge CB1 8DH
Tel: 01223 576 535
www.cambridgereuse.org.uk

Don’t get into more debt buying furniture or white goods on credit; visit Cambridge SOFA. This charity sells furniture, electrical goods, curtains and carpets at very low cost.

Online help

Cambridge has a number of local online directories that can signpost you to other services available in your area:

Cambridge Online
www.colc.co.uk

Cambridgeshire.net
www.cambridgeshire.net

Cambridgeshire County Council
www.cambridgeshire.gov.uk

The county council website has a money problems page with a money factsheet.

CCCS Local debt help

Click on the links below to access your local guide. Our guides show where to go to get free advice near you and who to contact for advice on housing, benefits and other worries you may have.