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DPHS(Fife)
Local Authority Area Search: Fife Council
Provider/Agency: Disabled Persons Housing Service (Fife) voluntary organisation/charity
Name of service/project: DPHS(Fife)
Address: Caledonia House, Pentland Park, Saltire Centre, Glenrothes
Postcode: KY6 2AQ
Telephone: 01592 803280
Website: http://www.dphsfife.org.uk
Email Address: enquiries@dphsfife.org.uk
Service Opening Hours: Mon-Thurs: 9am-5pm Fri: 9am-4pm. Closed: 1pm-2pm Can offer office appointments, community appointments and home visits where appropriate
Services Provided
Services provided: Provision of full independent housing options to national standards. Includes specialist private sector advisor and specialist 55+ advisor
Accommodation provider: No
Information advice & advocacy: Yes - full independent housing options to national standards provision
Care & Support: no: can refer on
Education, training & employment: no: can refer on where relevant
Health & wellbeing: No
Practical assistance:No: referrals to agencies/events
Other Information
Gender: All genders
Age Group: All Age Groups
Other Information: We provide full written Housing Options Reports to our customers. Also hold a range of events, Pop Up shops and information sessions including Financial Confidence; Personalisation of Care; CARF; other topics as researched/asked for as relevant to independent living and keeping tenancy.We make a range of referrals as part of our National Standards work including many referrals to third sector supportive of people at this time.
Provider/Agency: Disabled Persons Housing Service (Fife) voluntary organisation/charity
Name of service/project: DPHS(Fife)
Address: Caledonia House, Pentland Park, Saltire Centre, Glenrothes
Postcode: KY6 2AQ
Telephone: 01592 803280
Website: http://www.dphsfife.org.uk
Email Address: enquiries@dphsfife.org.uk
Service Opening Hours: Mon-Thurs: 9am-5pm Fri: 9am-4pm. Closed: 1pm-2pm Can offer office appointments, community appointments and home visits where appropriate
Services Provided
Services provided: Provision of full independent housing options to national standards. Includes specialist private sector advisor and specialist 55+ advisor
Accommodation provider: No
Information advice & advocacy: Yes - full independent housing options to national standards provision
Care & Support: no: can refer on
Education, training & employment: no: can refer on where relevant
Health & wellbeing: No
Practical assistance:No: referrals to agencies/events
Other Information
Gender: All genders
Age Group: All Age Groups
Other Information: We provide full written Housing Options Reports to our customers. Also hold a range of events, Pop Up shops and information sessions including Financial Confidence; Personalisation of Care; CARF; other topics as researched/asked for as relevant to independent living and keeping tenancy.We make a range of referrals as part of our National Standards work including many referrals to third sector supportive of people at this time.
Fife Housing Register – Housing Options Plan
Local Authority Area Search: Fife
Provider/Agency: Fife Housing Register
Name of service/project: Fife Housing Register – Housing Options Plan
Website: https://www.fifehousingregister.org.uk/options-hosa/
Services Provided
Services provided: The FHR online housing options self-assessment tool helps you find out about the range of different housing options that are available and accessible by you. It asks a series of questions about you, your circumstances, household income, and your needs. A personalized plan is then provided giving an overview of the options suited to you, directing you on to more detailed information that allows you to explore and consider each option further.
Other Information
Gender: All
Age Group: 16+
Other Information: Completing a housing options self-assessment tool does not mean you have applied for housing
Provider/Agency: Fife Housing Register
Name of service/project: Fife Housing Register – Housing Options Plan
Website: https://www.fifehousingregister.org.uk/options-hosa/
Services Provided
Services provided: The FHR online housing options self-assessment tool helps you find out about the range of different housing options that are available and accessible by you. It asks a series of questions about you, your circumstances, household income, and your needs. A personalized plan is then provided giving an overview of the options suited to you, directing you on to more detailed information that allows you to explore and consider each option further.
Other Information
Gender: All
Age Group: 16+
Other Information: Completing a housing options self-assessment tool does not mean you have applied for housing
Fife Migrants Forum
Local Authority Area Search: Fife
Provider/Agency: Fife Migrants Forum
Name of service/project: Fife Migrants Forum
Address: The Postings Shopping Centre, Unit 4, Hunter Street, Kirkcaldy
Postcode: KY1 1HN
Telephone: 01592 642927
Email Address: https://fmfwebsite.azurewebsites.net/
Service Opening Hours: Mon —Fri: 9:00am – 4:30pm
Services Provided
Services provided: Daily Advice Clinics provides advice, information, help and support with issues on employment, housing, welfare rights, debts, etc. Monthly Citizens Advice and Rights Fife Clinics help those with complex issues, providing language support if needed. A Job Club is run to help gain employment providing practical and emotional support, assisting with CV’s and application, and language and cultural understanding. An Immigration Clinic and Fife Law Centre Clinic is also run.
Accommodation provider: No
Information advice & advocacy: Yes
Education, training & employment: Yes
Practical assistance:Yes
Other Information
Gender: All
Age Group: 16+
Other Information: Fife Migrants Forum’s vision is to ensure Fife is a place where both migrants and local people can celebrate their diversity in a welcoming and safe environment, as well as alleviate the poverty that many migrants experience.
Provider/Agency: Fife Migrants Forum
Name of service/project: Fife Migrants Forum
Address: The Postings Shopping Centre, Unit 4, Hunter Street, Kirkcaldy
Postcode: KY1 1HN
Telephone: 01592 642927
Email Address: https://fmfwebsite.azurewebsites.net/
Service Opening Hours: Mon —Fri: 9:00am – 4:30pm
Services Provided
Services provided: Daily Advice Clinics provides advice, information, help and support with issues on employment, housing, welfare rights, debts, etc. Monthly Citizens Advice and Rights Fife Clinics help those with complex issues, providing language support if needed. A Job Club is run to help gain employment providing practical and emotional support, assisting with CV’s and application, and language and cultural understanding. An Immigration Clinic and Fife Law Centre Clinic is also run.
Accommodation provider: No
Information advice & advocacy: Yes
Education, training & employment: Yes
Practical assistance:Yes
Other Information
Gender: All
Age Group: 16+
Other Information: Fife Migrants Forum’s vision is to ensure Fife is a place where both migrants and local people can celebrate their diversity in a welcoming and safe environment, as well as alleviate the poverty that many migrants experience.
Housing Options Scotland
Local Authority Area Search: National
Provider/Agency: Housing Options Scotland
Name of service/project: Housing Options Scotland
Address: The Melting Pot, 5 Rose Street, Edinburgh
Postcode: EH2 2PR
Telephone: 0131 247 1400
Website: https://housingoptionsscotland.org.uk/
Services Provided
Services provided: We help disabled people, people who are 55 or over, and members of the Armed Forces community, to find the right home in the right place. We give information, advice and support on renting, buying and adapting homes. We are a registered charity.
Accommodation provider: No
Information advice & advocacy: Yes
Other Information
Gender: All
Age Group: 16+
Other Information: n/a
Provider/Agency: Housing Options Scotland
Name of service/project: Housing Options Scotland
Address: The Melting Pot, 5 Rose Street, Edinburgh
Postcode: EH2 2PR
Telephone: 0131 247 1400
Website: https://housingoptionsscotland.org.uk/
Services Provided
Services provided: We help disabled people, people who are 55 or over, and members of the Armed Forces community, to find the right home in the right place. We give information, advice and support on renting, buying and adapting homes. We are a registered charity.
Accommodation provider: No
Information advice & advocacy: Yes
Other Information
Gender: All
Age Group: 16+
Other Information: n/a
Renting Scotland
Local Authority Area Search: Fife
Provider/Agency: Renting Scotland
Name of service/project: Renting Scotland
Address: Online information resource only
Website: https://rentingscotland.org/
Service Opening Hours: Available online 24/7
Services Provided
Services provided: Website provides up to date information relating to the private rented sector, including advice and guides for current or prospective private tenants, and advice for private landlords. Website also includes letter templates to help tenants contact their landlord about their deposit, or to request a repair.
Accommodation provider: No
Other Information
Gender: All
Age Group: 16+
Other Information: Renting Scotland is jointly funded by the Scottish Government, The Safe Deposits Scotland Trust and Shelter Scotland.
Provider/Agency: Renting Scotland
Name of service/project: Renting Scotland
Address: Online information resource only
Website: https://rentingscotland.org/
Service Opening Hours: Available online 24/7
Services Provided
Services provided: Website provides up to date information relating to the private rented sector, including advice and guides for current or prospective private tenants, and advice for private landlords. Website also includes letter templates to help tenants contact their landlord about their deposit, or to request a repair.
Accommodation provider: No
Other Information
Gender: All
Age Group: 16+
Other Information: Renting Scotland is jointly funded by the Scottish Government, The Safe Deposits Scotland Trust and Shelter Scotland.
Shelter Scotland
Local Authority Area Search: National
Provider/Agency: Shelter Scotland
Name of service/project: Shelter Scotland
Address: Online and telephone services
Telephone: 0808 800 4444
Website: https://scotland.shelter.org.uk/
Service Opening Hours: Online housing advice available via website 24/7. Online chat service also available. Housing Advice phone line operates Mon – Fri 9am – 5pm
Services Provided
Services provided: Shelter Scotland cannot house you, but we can give confidential help to people with all kinds of housing problems. We do this by giving advice, information and advocacy to people in housing need. Our Housing Law Service provides free legal advice to help people with housing issues across Scotland.
Accommodation provider: No
Information advice & advocacy: Yes
Practical assistance:Yes
Other Information
Gender: All
Age Group: 16+
Other Information: Shelter Scotland is a charity that works to alleviate the distress caused by homelessness and bad housing, and we campaign for lasting political change to end the housing crisis for good. At Shelter Scotland we don’t provide houses, but we do provide answers. From homelessness to home owner, we’ve housing advice for everyone. We are an OSCR Registered Charity.
Provider/Agency: Shelter Scotland
Name of service/project: Shelter Scotland
Address: Online and telephone services
Telephone: 0808 800 4444
Website: https://scotland.shelter.org.uk/
Service Opening Hours: Online housing advice available via website 24/7. Online chat service also available. Housing Advice phone line operates Mon – Fri 9am – 5pm
Services Provided
Services provided: Shelter Scotland cannot house you, but we can give confidential help to people with all kinds of housing problems. We do this by giving advice, information and advocacy to people in housing need. Our Housing Law Service provides free legal advice to help people with housing issues across Scotland.
Accommodation provider: No
Information advice & advocacy: Yes
Practical assistance:Yes
Other Information
Gender: All
Age Group: 16+
Other Information: Shelter Scotland is a charity that works to alleviate the distress caused by homelessness and bad housing, and we campaign for lasting political change to end the housing crisis for good. At Shelter Scotland we don’t provide houses, but we do provide answers. From homelessness to home owner, we’ve housing advice for everyone. We are an OSCR Registered Charity.
SSAFA
Local Authority Area Search: National
Provider/Agency: SSAFA
Name of service/project: SSAFA
Telephone: 0800 731 4880
Website: https://www.ssafa.org.uk/
Services Provided
Services provided: We can offer impartial guidance around housing issues for those who have left the Armed Forces. Our guidance includes homelessness, housing benefits, accessing social housing, tenants' rights, mortgage arrears, repossession and eviction. Our advisors cannot give you legal advice but they will look into your situation and explain your options. They can also signpost you to other organisations for help.
Accommodation provider: No
Other Information
Gender: All
Age Group: 16+
Other Information: We are a registered charity. Our support is offered to regulars and reserves in the Royal Navy, Royal Marines, British Army and the Royal Air Force and their families, including anyone who has completed National Service. They are all entitled to lifelong support from SSAFA, no matter how long they have served. We provide support relating to addiction, relationship breakdown, post-traumatic street, depression and disability.
Provider/Agency: SSAFA
Name of service/project: SSAFA
Telephone: 0800 731 4880
Website: https://www.ssafa.org.uk/
Services Provided
Services provided: We can offer impartial guidance around housing issues for those who have left the Armed Forces. Our guidance includes homelessness, housing benefits, accessing social housing, tenants' rights, mortgage arrears, repossession and eviction. Our advisors cannot give you legal advice but they will look into your situation and explain your options. They can also signpost you to other organisations for help.
Accommodation provider: No
Other Information
Gender: All
Age Group: 16+
Other Information: We are a registered charity. Our support is offered to regulars and reserves in the Royal Navy, Royal Marines, British Army and the Royal Air Force and their families, including anyone who has completed National Service. They are all entitled to lifelong support from SSAFA, no matter how long they have served. We provide support relating to addiction, relationship breakdown, post-traumatic street, depression and disability.
Young Scot – New Digs
Local Authority Area Search: National
Provider/Agency: Young Scot – New Digs
Name of service/project: Young Scot – New Digs
Address: Online resource only
Website: https://young.scot/campaigns/national/new-digs
Services Provided
Services provided: Young Scot - New Digs provides range of useful online information for first-time tenants looking to rent from the private sector in Scotland. It includes a range of information on different subjects including tenancy agreements, how to find a good landlord, arranging and carrying out viewings, the costs involved in renting, dealing with neighbour problems, and landlord disputes.
Accommodation provider: No
Other Information
Gender: All
Age Group: 16+
Other Information: The online guides have been developed in partnership with the Scottish Government
Provider/Agency: Young Scot – New Digs
Name of service/project: Young Scot – New Digs
Address: Online resource only
Website: https://young.scot/campaigns/national/new-digs
Services Provided
Services provided: Young Scot - New Digs provides range of useful online information for first-time tenants looking to rent from the private sector in Scotland. It includes a range of information on different subjects including tenancy agreements, how to find a good landlord, arranging and carrying out viewings, the costs involved in renting, dealing with neighbour problems, and landlord disputes.
Accommodation provider: No
Other Information
Gender: All
Age Group: 16+
Other Information: The online guides have been developed in partnership with the Scottish Government
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