Here to Help
Below are details and links to some of the services you may find useful.
First Contact
First Contact is a FREE confidential service which enables people over 60 years of age to access services through a single point of contact, to stay safe and independent in their own homes. A whole host of services can be accessed without going to the trouble of contacting all of the various different organisations. Click here for more information.
Free Use
Freeuse LA is a new website for Leicestershire Charities and Community Groups to take unwanted office items, donated by local authorities and schools, all for free! Save money, Save resources, Reduce waste! For more information and to register visit www.freeusela.org
Hate Incident Reporting
A new support service has been launched for anyone who has experienced a hate incident in Leicestershire. Under the new service people are being encouraged to come forward and report any incidents where they feel they have been targeted due to their age, disability, gender, race, religion/ belief or sexual orientation.
Do you feel you have been the victim of a hate incident, or know someone who has? If you would like to report it or find out more information, please click here.
Clockwise Credit Union
CLOCKWISE CREDIT UNION
Providing residents with safe savings and affordable loans
Residents of Hinckley and Bosworth can now access safe and ethical savings and affordable loans meaning that local residents won’t need to resort to ‘loan sharks’, doorstep and high cost lenders if they need to borrow money.
Clockwise Credit Union can save borrowers pounds and give people access to save as much as they want, or as little as they can afford. Savings accounts are available for everyone, no matter what age and loans are available (subject to terms and conditions) for anybody aged 18 to 80.
This service is now available at:
Earl Shilton Community House, Pegg’s Close Earl Shilton on Tuesdays from 10am to 12.30pm.
Great Meeting Chapel, Baines Lane, Hinckley on Mondays from 11am to 1.30pm.
Gwendoline Community House, 50 Gwendoline Avenue, Wykin, Hinckley.
Wednesdays 3pm to 6pm. Tel 01455 610115.
The Clockwise Credit Union head office is at 1 St. Nicholas Place, Leicester LE1 5LB
Telephone 0116 24 23 900
Products available include:
• The Clockwise Savings Account
• Cash ISAs
• Child Trust Fund Account (CTF)
• Young Savers Account
• Clockwise Current Account
• Clockwise Loan (£50 to £7,000 at sensible repayment rates*)
* For example a £300 loan repayable over 31 weeks from Clockwise will cost £10.41 per week, making a repayable total of £322.66 (APR 26.8%). From one of the main doorstep lenders, the same loan will cost £15 per week to repay, making a total of £465.00 (APR 365.1%).
The facility is being provided by the Hinckley & Bosworth Borough Council in conjunction with Orbit Heart of England and Clockwise. Credit unions are financial co-operatives owned and controlled by their members.
For more information, email: Hinckley@clockwise-cu.co.uk, phone Claire Shilton on mobile 07554 245575, Clockwise Head Office on 0116 247 1740, visit
www.clockwise-cu.co.uk or simply call in.
Drug Advice
Drop in Tuesdays 1.30 - 4.30pm at the Salvation Army, Lancaster Road, Hinckley – click here for more information
