Please excuse me being a little off topic with this post but I have just found the contact details for the office of the chief executive of the jobcentre and would like to share it so other can write to him. (He is one of the civil service fat cats listed in a recent Panorama programme about those who are paid a lot more than the PM).

Darra Singh.. Chief executive of jobcentreplus.. Level 6.. Caxton House.. Tothill St.. London.. SW1H 9NA..

Email: darra.singh@jobcentreplus.gsi.gov.uk

Please everyone, do all you can to spread this info across other threads and websites as the jc seem to go to great lengths to keep the identitiy of this person and the address of his ivory tower from the rest of us!

If I ever find a phone number I will list it here too!

Hi, does anybody have a number for Wrexham Jobcentre? I don't know the old number so can't try the suggestion posted. Thank you

There is plenty of advice here, and on other threads, about how to contact a jobcentre by changing the last digit(s) of the original number, (which often ended 00). However, to be able to do that you need the original number of course, which is not always available.

However, if you go to the BT website,

http://www.bt.com

In the lower right corner you will see a box headed 'Find a number', click on the tab that says 'business name', then enter jobcentre (NOT jobcentreplus), and the location and click 'search'. In most, if not all cases you will then have the 'starting point' number for each jobcentre. I have tried this with several, including Wrexham, and can confirm it works (at least it does at the time of writing!).

With luck this may save people some time and reduce the need of people to ask for starting point numbers.

Please feel free to disseminate this information in whatever way you think best as it is time to hit back against these rip-off numbers.

Jemima wrote on Oct 4^th, 2010 at 4:04pm:

Why did you give up so soon? 

I would have thought that most Jobcentre offices will have many members of staff and therefore many direct dialling in numbers; certainly more than 9. So I would continue on, either trying one at a time, or jump to higher numbers, e.g. 40 something etc.

ivox69 wrote on Oct 7^th, 2010 at 11:28am:

Thanks for the feedback. I've added a note to the Alfreton entry that 02 might work, or try swapping last couple of digits.

Jemima wrote on Oct 7^th, 2010 at 2:12pm:

I'm not sure what you're trying, but I've just called 01978 316510 and 01978 316520 and got through to staff members and not the recording redirecting to the 0845 number. You need to dial 01978 3165 plus two other digits, and perhaps 3166 plus two digits will be for Jobcentre in Wrexham.

Congleton Jobcentre - 01260 205 303

Today I had to phone the Ilford BDC Jobcentre Plus office as my incapacity benefit has been removed without any notice! Obviously the b*****ds have an 0845 number & I point blank refuse to phone them (or anyone else who uses them), so I trailed through these forums trying to find an alternative number that won't cost me to call. I ended up phoning Wandsworth & she was very understanding but told me that her hands have now been tied, she was no longer able to put me through to another branch... but what she did offer to do was contact them herself, then pass my number on to them (bless her), which she did.

Sadly my awful predicament is still far from solved right now