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1. Information - general
Related pages on the CharityBags website :
General sources of information
List of organisations and resources (with abbreviations)
Citizens Advice Bureaux (CABs) :
- Advice Guide [by NACAB]
www.adviceguide.org.uk - Citizens Advice Bureaux (CABs)
There are CAB offices in most towns. They provide unbiased, free information and confidential advice to the public on consumer matters, law etc. - Citizens Advice - National Association of Citizens Advice Bureaux (NACAB)
www.nacab.org.uk
Libraries
'Councils, Committees and Boards' (CCB)
Printed directory by CBD Research Ltd. Hardback, approx 750 pages.
High quality, comprehensively indexed.
Note - The word "councils" in
the title refers to national bodies (eg the National Consumer Council) rather
than local government councils.
'Directory of British Associations' (DBA)
Printed directory by CBD Research Ltd. Hardback, approx 750 pages.
Authoritative, high quality, comprehensively indexed.
A new edition is published every couple of years.
Wikipedia
www.wikipedia.org
Huge online international encyclopedia.
Free, not-for-profit, collaborative.
2.6 million articles in English.
2. Information - about telephone numbers
The website provides free searches for telephone numbers. Also allows searching of the edited Electoral Roll.
British Telecom (BT)
www.bt.com
The website provides free searches for telephone numbers.
Thomson Local
www.thomsonlocal.com
Yellow Pages
www.yell.com
3. Information - about websites - directories
UK Directory
www.ukdirectory.co.uk
Printed directory of websites. UK, was updated 2-3 times a year. Around £3.99.
"Find, not search ... 22,000 UK websites categorised like a
telephone directory."
Publication of the hardcopy version has been discontinued. However a modified
version is available online.
4. Information - about websites - searching
Note - searching the Net: Useful keywords include :
- charity, charities, charitable, charity shops, charity clothing collections, clothing collectors, charitybags, charity bags, house-to-house, house to house, door-to-door, door to door, re-use, recycling, donations, cons, scams, bogus, fraud, misleading, fake
Search engines - eg Alta Vista, Ask [Jeeves], Bing, Excite, Google, Lycos, Yahoo
Google
www.google.co.uk
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