Useful Information & Say no to 0870! Hot Topics

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For "Hall of Shame", refer to this page.

This page is for charities and private sector organisations only. Public sector bodies are listed on this page.

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Hyperlinks for these organisations go to the relevant page on their website giving their telephone number.

Accord Housing Association 0300 111 7000
Angleman Syndrome Support Education & Research Trust (ASSERT) 0300 999 0102
Anthony Nolan Trust 0303 303 0303
BBC Children in Need 03457 33 22 33
Black and Minority Ethnic Community Partnership (BMECP) 0300 303 1171
Brighton Museum & Art Gallery 03000 290 900
British Canoe Union 0300 011 9500
British Heart Foundation - Heart Helpline 0300 330 3311
Broken Rainbow 0300 999 5428
B-with-us 0300 123 2200 Housing service for Pennine Lancashire
Cats Protection 03000 12 12 12
Comic Relief - Red Nose Day Donations 03457 910 910
Cynon Tâf Community Housing Group 0345 260 2633
Disabled Parents Network 0300 3300 639
Disasters Emergency Committee (DEC) Donations 0370 60 60 900
Families Need Fathers 0300 0300 110/363
GIST Support UK 0300 400 0000
Institute of Broadcast Sound (IBS) 0300 400 8427
Islamic Aid 0300 111 3001
Midland Heart 0345 60 20 540
National Breastfeeding Network 0300 100 021x
National Childbirth Trust (NCT) 0300 330 0770 Uses 0844 numbers for other purposes
National Coastwatch Institution (NCI) 0300 111 1202
National Stalking Helpline 0300 636 0300
One Vision Housing 0300 365 1111 Manages former Sefton Council Houses
Orbit Heart of England Housing Association 0345 8 500 500
Oxfam GB 0300 200 xxxx
Pilgrim Homes 0300 303 1400
Regenda First (housing association) 0344 736 0066
Relate 0300 100 1234
RNIB 0303 123 9999
Royal Blind 0300 321 0300
Royal College of Nursing (RCN) 0345 772 6100
RSABI Gatepost helpline 0300 111 4166
RSPCA 0300 1234 999
Scottish SPCA 03000 999 999
Shaw Trust 0300 30 33 120
Shelter 0344 515 2000
South Gloucestershire Leisure Centres 0300 333 0300
Southern Housing Group 0300 303 1771
Stroke Association 0303 3033 100
UK Narcotics Anonymous 0300 999 12 12
UNICEF Soccer Aid 2010 0330 123 1966
Walsall Housing Group 0300 555 6666
Will Aid 0300 0300 013

Discussion threads contain links to minutes of meetings and other relevant pages showing the change of telephone number.

Alan Boswell Group
Asda - Used to use 0844 numbers for Asda Direct, Home Shopping as well as its "Service Team" and these all now have 0800 numbers.
Aston Villa Football Club - Ticket office and some other departments are freephone numbers; all others are 0121 numbers. It used to use 0871 (see entries in our database).
Bennetts Retail Ltd (Bennetts Electrical) Head office, online orders and stores all have freephone numbers.
Bradford City FC [Discussion here]
Caravan Guard publishes both 0800 and 01422 numbers
FindMyPast.com [Discussion here] Message posted on Say No To 0870 from Head of Marketing.
Nutrition Assocates [Discussion here] Reverted to 01 after being made aware that 0845 is not "local rate".
Oldham Community Leisure [Discussion here]changed from 0161 to 0844 and described them as "local rate". Following my email pointing out that this is incorrect, they have now said that they are going to change back to 0161 numbers.
Quiet PC UK
Reel Cinemas has changed its central automated booking line for use across all its branches from 0870 801 0870 to 01509 221155.
Wintercorn Internet Consulting [Discussion here] Switched from 0870 to freephone, including support.

Otelo appears to be changing from 0845 to 0330 numbers. Ofqual is similarly advertising 0300 numbers.

Man_at_Oxfam, welcome to the site and thanks for adding those details to the database. We look forward it these numbers being officially published on the Oxfam website .

Thanks for the welcome 

I will add the Oxfam Cymru number now.
Apols for the piecemeal approach - this is all hot off the presses!

Man_at_Oxfam wrote on May 1^st, 2008 at 1:21pm:

Many thanks for this, I have amended the Cymru entry.

Brighter Connections are an "IT agent" company based in Huddersfield. Up until recently (I'm not sure how recently), they had been using 0870 numbers. I only recently discovered (I saw a pen of theirs at work) that they have now switched to 0370 numbers (which have the same last 7 digits as their old 0870 numbers obviously). Thumbs up to Brighter Connections!

Could this post be stickied alongside the Hall of shame? Otherwise all people see is the Hall of shame and not the one congratulating the companies that have changed to 03 numbers.