Like our sister site www.IVA.co.uk we will soon be organising our own events page, however I would like to draw your attention to the up and coming Debt Debate at Browns Court in London on Friday the 2nd of May at 4:00pm

The topic of this Debt Debate is very exciting covering the controversial IVA’s up against Bankruptcy…

The Debate will highlight the key issues surrounding both solutions, discussing the pros and cons of both and posing questions about how both solutions are portrayed in the media.

The panel for the debate will include Melanie Giles who posts as an expert on this site.

You can use the link below to register your interest in attending the debate and I look forward to meeting those of you who attend

                                                              http://www.iva.co.uk/events/debt_debates.asp

My update falls a little late this week so apologies for this. 

Firstly I would like to extend a warm welcome to Melanie Giles, to our panel of experts, Melanie has been in the industry for over twenty years and brings a vast wealth of knowledge to the forum.Melanie is a forum expert on our sister site www.IVA.co.uk  and for over a year has been helping people in financial difficulty by giving advice and answering questions.We thank you for taking time out of your schedule to post on the Bankruptcy site as well as the IVA site. 

Further to my update on the 20^th March the forum has continued to grow and the number of new members and questions is, as I mentioned in my last update, down to the panel of experts like Melanie who are on hand to answer your questions and give advice so a big thank you to all the experts. 

After some initial teething problems our Blogs are now up and running so I would like to invite you all to share your own stories and experiences so that others may learn and draw comfort that they are not alone in the battle through their difficult times. 

I will be updating my Blog weekly with updates to the site and forum as well as up and coming events and industry news.

My first week as spokesperson involved an overhaul of the Bankruptcy Help website to ensure that all information given on the site was been brought up to date. 

There have been many changes made firstly you will note our updated front page to include my personal profile and introduction on Bankruptcy TV.Other changes as I have previously mentioned were within the Bankruptcy information Centre bringing this up to date. 

You will notice at the top of the page the Bankruptcy Helpline is now fully functional for those of you who have questions on your personal situations, the helpline is a free advisory service supplied by the Bankruptcy Help Team. 

The team are there to answer your questions and give you advice on the best course of action for your particular problem, They will run through your personal situation asking questions regarding your income and expenditure, property status, and debt levels and explain to you the steps you need to take. 

Alternatively you can fill in the information on our Bankruptcy Wizard, the wizard calculates your disposable income, against your personal debts and calculates a suggested course of action based on the information given. 

You can also post a question on our forum where our forum experts will endeavour to answer your questions and give advice on the best course of action for you.The experts on our forum are independent specialists in their fields, who have taken time from their busy schedules to post on the forum, for which we are extremely grateful.  

The first three moths of 2008 has seen 138 topics on the forum with 695 posts, compare this to the whole of 2007 which saw 138 topics and only 357 posts, and you can see the popularity of the forum is growing, the most staggering fact is March generated 96 topics with 571 posts where February only generated 21 topics with 62 posts.

This vast growth in number is down to our two main experts Paul Johns of Reviva UK and
Brett England of England, Jackman & Spacey without whom your questions would go unanswered, so a big thank you to the both of you

I have many exciting updates to bring you over the up and coming weeks whereby I will be giving a weekly forum update as well as updating my blogs and articles on the site to keep you all posted on our developments.