Advice Agencies

For help in managing debts, understanding welfare rights, cutting down on energy expenses, preparing for retirement, or getting civil legal support, our extensive list of advisory services in Aberdeen is here to assist you. Detailed below are various agencies committed to offering professional counsel and help in these essential sectors.

For additional specifics or to get in touch with these services directly, please consult their individual websites or contact their local offices in Aberdeen.

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Debt and Money Advice

Name of Organisation	Location	Services Offered	Contact Information
Aberdeen City Council Financial Inclusion Team	Marischal College, Broad Street, AB10 1AB Outreach locations: Mondays - Torry Hub, 9am-12pm Tuesday - Tillydrone Hub, 9am-12pm Tilly Flat every fortnight on a Tuesday - 1-4pm Instant Neighbour second Friday of every month - 9:15am-1:15pm	Provides free, confidential and impartial advice on managing debts, preparing financial statements and negotiating with creditors. Outreach services also offered at various locations	01224 069769
Aberdeen Citizens Advice Bureau (CAB)	41 Union Street, AB11 5BN Outreach Locations: Monday - Powis Community Centre, 10am-2pm Tuesday - Torry Medical Centre, 10am-2pm Wednesday - Woodside Community Centre, 10am-3pm Thursday - Northfield Community Centre, 10am-3pm	Provides free, confidential and impartial advice on managing debts, preparing financial statements and negotiating with creditors. Outreach services also offered at various locations.	01224 569750
Christians Against Poverty (CAP)		Provides free debt help and local support through community-based debt centres. They offer face to face debt advice and support individuals through their debt management processes.	0800 328 0006
Grampian Housing Association - SMART	Huntly House, 74 Huntly Street, AB10 1TD	Provides free, confidential and impartial advice on managing debts, preparing financial statements and negotiating with creditors. For Grampian Housing Association Tenants only.	01224 202934
National Debtline		Offers free and confidential debt advice via phone and online chat, including budgeting help and debt solutions.	0808 808 4000
StepChange Debt Charity Scotland		Provides debt advice and solutions, including the Debt Arrangement Scheme, Debt Management Plans, Protected Trust Deeds, Sequestration, Minimal Assets Process Bankruptcy, and Token Payment Plans, all tailored to Scottish residents.	0800 138 1111
PayPlan		They provide an online debt solution tool, PlanFinder, along with access to telephone advice on solutions including the Debt Arrangement Scheme, Debt Management Plans, Protected Trust Deeds, Sequestration, Minimal Assets Process Bankruptcy and Token Payment Plans, all tailored to Scottish residents.	0800 3161833

Welfare and Benefits Advice

Name of Organisation	Location	Services Offered	Contact Information
Aberdeen City Council Financial Inclusion Team	Marischal College, Broad Street, AB10 1AB Outreach locations: Mondays - Torry Hub, 9am-12pm Tuesday - Tillydrone Hub, 9am-12pm Tilly Flat every fortnight on a Tuesday - 1-4pm Instant Neighbour second Friday of every month - 9:15am-1:15pm	Provides free, confidential and impartial advice on managing debts, preparing financial statements and negotiating with creditors. Outreach services also offered at various locations	01224 069769
Aberdeen Citizens Advice Bureau (CAB)	41 Union Street, AB11 5BN Outreach Locations: Monday - Powis Community Centre, 10am-2pm Tuesday - Torry Medical Centre, 10am-2pm Wednesday - Woodside Community Centre, 10am-3pm Thursday - Northfield Community Centre, 10am-3pm	Provides free, confidential and impartial advice on managing debts, preparing financial statements and negotiating with creditors. Outreach services also offered at various locations.	01224 569750
Community Food Initiatives Northeast (CFINE)	2-4 Poynernook Road, AB11 5RW	Provides benefits and budgeting advice, assistance with crisis loans and community care grants and support to ensure access to technology to manage benefits.	01224 531386
Social Security Scotland	Various locations in Aberdeen or virtual help	Local delivery service that provides in-person or virtual assistance to complete benefit forms for any Social Security Administered Benefits.	0800 182 2222
Grampian Housing Association - SMART	Huntly House, 74 Huntly Street, AB10 1TD	Provides free, confidential and impartial advice on welfare benefits, including help with benefit claims, challenging benefit decisions and representation at appeal tribunals. For Grampian Housing Association Tenants only.	01224 202934
Aberdeen Care and Repair	4 Carden Place, AB10 1UT	Provides free benefit checks along with advice and practical assistance to elderly and disabled people to allow them to continue to live within their own homes as independently as possible.	01224 625822
Maggie's Aberdeen	Elizabeth Montgomerie Building, Aberdeen Royal Infirmary, AB25 2UZ	Provides individual advice on claiming benefits and other support available, including filling out application forms and throughout the claims process. Only for people with cancer or for those caring for someone with cancer.	01224 645928
Instant Neighbour	5 St Machar Drive, AB24 3YJ	Alongside emergency food provision, the Community Connector provides advice on welfare benefits, support with benefit claim forms, challenging benefit decisions, support with grant forms, budgeting advice and signposting to other agencies. There is also access to technology where clients can apply for benefits, update CV's, apply for jobs and more.	01224 489955
Langstane Housing Welfare Advice	680 King Street, AB24 1SL	Provides benefit checks, assistance with claiming benefits and help with any benefit related issue. For Langstane Housing Tenants only.	01224 423086
Age UK Advice Line		Provides advice on benefits and how to claim them along with other advice on financial services, health and wellbeing for older people and signposting to local agencies.	0800 678 1602

Pension Advice

Name of Organisation	Address	Services Offered	Contact Information
Pension Wise	Available across the UK	Free guidance for people aged 50+ with defined contribution pensions on options like annuities, drawdown and lump sums.	0800 138 3944

Civil Legal Aid

The Scottish Legal Board has a Solicitor Finder tool to search for registered solicitors who may be able to provide advice and represent someone under Civil Legal Aid.

Below is a list of the main solicitors within Aberdeen.

Name of Organisation	Location	Services Offered	Contact Informatiom
George Mathers & Co	23 Adelphi, AB11 5BL	Benefits including universal credit, children's cases, complaints against profession ACTIVE, consumer problems, death related matters, debt, money and tax. Family services also offered including domestic violence, housing and homelessness, and mental health.	01224 588599
Mullen & Co Solicitors	1 Marischal Square, Broad Street, AB10 1BL	Children and family cases.	01224 602287
Community Legal Assistance Office (CLAO)	Annexe, Migvie House, 23 North Silver Street, AB10 1RJ	Provides help with housing and homelessness, certain types of debt, welfare benefits issues, child protection, and some family law matters.	01224 402330
James & George Collie Solicitors		Adults with incapacity and Power of Attorney.	Tel: 01224 581581 Email: info@jgcollie.co.uk
Blackadders Solicitors		Adults with incapacity, Power of Attorney and family cases.	Tel: 01224 588913 Email: gareth.masson@blackadders.co.uk
Grant Smith Law Practice		Adults with incapacity and Power of Attorney, children's cases, consumer problems, death related matters, debt, money and tax, and family cases.	Tel: 01224 621620 Email: info@grantsmithlaw.co.uk
Aberdein Considine & Co Solicitors	5-7 Bon Accord Crescent, AB11 6DN	Adults with incapacity and Power of Attorney.	01224 589700
Taggart Meil Mathers Solicitors	20 Bon Accord Square, AB11 6DJ	Adults with incapacity and Power of Attorney, death related matters and family cases.	Tel: 01224 588020 Email: info@tmmsolicitors.co.uk
Ledingham Chalmers Solicitors	Johnstone House, 52-54 Rose Street, AB10 1HA	Adults with incapacity and Power of Attorney.	01224 408408
Raeburn Christie Clark & Wallace LLP	12-16 Albyn Place, AB15 7UH	Adults with incapacity and Power of Attorney, and other Civil Legal Aid work on a case-by-case basis.	01224 332400
Bruce MacDonald & Co Solicitor	6 Albert Place, AB25 1RG	Consumer problems, death related matters, debt, money and tax.	01224 64332
Simpson & Marwick Solicitors T/A Clyde & Co	4 Carden Terrace, AB10 1US	Civil	01224 624924
MacKinnon's Solicitors	14 Carden Terrace, AB10 1UR	Civil	01224 632464
Murray Ormiston LLP	25A Carden Place, AB10 1UQ	Children and family cases.	01224 478822
Balfour and Manson Solicitors	6 Albyn Terrace, AB10 1YP	Adults with incapacity and Power of Attorney, consumer problems, debt, money and tax, family cases, housing and homelessness, and medical negligence.	01224 498080
Gilson Gray LLP Aberdeen	Blenheim Gate, Blenheim Place, AB24 2DZ	Adults with incapacity, Power of Attorney and Family Cases.	01224 011 700
Woodward Lawson Solicitors Aberdeen	7 Queens Gardens, AB15 4YD	Mental Health	01224 619 330
Burnett & Reid Solicitors	Suit A, Ground Floor, 9 Queens Road, AB15 4YL	Adults with incapacity and Power of Attorney.	01224 644333
The Aberdeen Law Project (ALP)	c/o School of Law, Taylor Building, The University of Aberdeen, AB24 3UB	Offers free legal advice and support across various areas, including housing, employment, charity, commerce and consumer issues.	01224 272434
Shelter Scotland	29 Crown Street, AB11 6HA	Housing and homelessness.	0808 800 4444

Energy Advice

Name of Organisation	Location	Services Offered	Contact Information
SCARF	1 Cotton Street, AB11 5EE	Offering free and impartial energy saving advice to help people lower their fuel bills along with providing information about grants and funding, energy efficiency improvements for the home, fuel debt and billing.	01224 213005
Aberdeen Care and Repair	4 Carden Place, AB10 1UT	Provides free energy advice to older people who own their home.	01224 625822
Home Energy Scotland		Offering free, impartial advice on energy saving, keeping warm at home, renewable energy, greener travel and cutting water waste.	0808 808 2282
Energyadvice.scot		Offering free, practical advice and information on energy related matters to citizens of Scotland.	0808 196 8660
Change Works		Offering free, practical advice and information on energy related matters to citizens of Scotland.	Online Referral Form

Credit Unions

Name of Organisation	Location	Services Offered	Contact Information
Grampian Credit Union	250 Union Street, AB10 1TN	Provides access to savings, loans, pre-paid cards and insurance to their members.	01224 561506
St Machar Credit Union	433 Great Northern Road, Woodside, AB24 2EU	Provides access to savings, loans, pre-paid cards and insurance to people living or working in Woodside, Tillydrone, Northfield, Seaton, Cummings Park, Sunnybank, Froghall, Old Aberdeen, Pittodrie, Hilton, Heathryfold, Printfield and Middlefield.	01224 276994

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