National Debt Awareness Week 2025

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24 March 2025

Today is the start of national ‘Debt Awareness Week’. For more information about the campaign click here .

Hosted by the debt charity StepChange, the focus for this year’s campaign is challenging the judgment and stigma associated with debt. Until affected ourselves, we are all prone to make judgements about friends and family members who get into debt.

They have poor judgement, they have no financial discipline, they should have known better.

However, experience - especially personal or professional experience - disproves these assumptions. All sorts of people get into all types of debt for all sorts of reasons. What matters most is how to help them get out of debt and back onto an even keel financially.

This process starts with giving those in debt the space and opportunity to start a conversation about their debt situation without pre-judgment from the listener and without any stigma being attached to the speaker.

And that’s where national Debt Awareness Week comes in. It is an attempt to encourage those affected, or even those who feel anxious about potential debt issues, to raise their concerns with a sympathetic expert ear.

There is a range of not-for-profit expert debt advice and money management organisations out there to reach out to that offer free, confidential and impartial information advice and guidance. Below are the three most prominent ones but there will be others:

Citizens Advice - https://www.citizensadvice.org.uk/debt-and-money/ (call 0808 257 5715)

StepChange - https://www.stepchange.org/ (call 0800 138 1111)

National Debtline - https://nationaldebtline.org/ (call them on 0808 808 400).

The Moneyhelper website - click here - also offers excellent and impartial online advice about how to manage money and budget effectively.

Help is out there if you can gather the confidence to grasp it.

If you need help with your debts or know of someone close to you who does, please give them these details and encourage them to take the first steps to taking control of their personal finances.

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