Check List
- Confirm your move date and any specific instructions with GoodMove
- Dispose of anything you don’t want (try the free ads columns in your local paper if you want to sell things, or give them to local charity shops)
- Inform your gas, electricity, water companies, so that meters can be read
- Tell your bank and credit card companies of your new address
- Tell your building society and insurance companies about the move date
- Inform telephone/mobile phone/Internet subscription companies
- Notify doctor, dentist, children’s schools, newsagents etc.
- Ask Post Office to re-route your mail
- Tell TV Licence, DVLA, Passport Office,
Child Benefit Agency
- Prepare your change of address cards
- Visit your new home to plan room layouts and measure
up for curtains and carpets
- Arrange help with looking after children and pets on the day
Download PDF of helpful hints