Citizens Advice
Free, confidential advice on money, benefits, housing, work, law and more.
For layoffs, firings and the hard search for what is next. Talk with people in United Kingdom who know what it is like, find help near you, and join the worldwide circle too. Free, always.
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Free, confidential advice on money, benefits, housing, work, law and more.
Run by people who have been through business struggles and failure and burnout themselves.
Weekdays and Saturday mornings
We help people with career change and purpose and business struggles and failure, in person in Southampton and online. Sessions are relaxed and you set the pace.
Evenings and weekends
We help people with job loss and workplace bullying and harassment, in person in Portsmouth and online. Sessions are relaxed and you set the pace.
Evenings and weekends
Run by people who have been through job loss and career change and purpose themselves.
Evenings and weekends
We help people with job loss and burnout, in person in Leeds and online. Sessions are relaxed and you set the pace.
Tue to Sat, 10 to 6
Practical help for people dealing with burnout and job loss, plus a weekly drop-in.
Weekdays and Saturday mornings
Benefits calculator and grants search for people in financial hardship.
See how many days your savings cover essentials, and the gap to a 90-day cushion.
โI am not going to tell you everything happens for a reason. It doesn't. But you can get through it. I did, and I am not especially strong. Write everything down at work. Dates, times, what was said.โ
โReading this late at night? I've been there. I was right where you are about three years ago. Applying to 60 jobs and two interviews, every single day. Today I made breakfast, went to work and laughed at something. Bit by bit it comes back. xโ
โIf you've just found this place, I was where you are in 2022. My LinkedIn says open to work, and I couldn't see past it. I got a new job this spring. It comes back so slowly you don't notice until one day you do. Hang on.โ
โI'm not going to pretend it's easy. Losing a job sucks. The ghosting, the silence, the way people look at you. But you're not the only one. I found a training course, met some people. It's small but it's something. Don't stay in the shed too long. And answer at least one message a day. Even if it's just to say you're okay.โ