Birmingham canal with brick warehouses on a grey morning

About Cunealriva

Budget planning written in Birmingham, for British months.

We started Cunealriva because too many “universal” money templates ignore council tax, Direct Debits and the way UK pay actually lands.

Cunealriva is a small planning studio at 53 The Crest, Birmingham B31 3QA, UK. We write, teach and sit with households who want a calmer way to run the month. We are not a bank, a lender or an FCA-authorised advice firm. That limit is deliberate. It keeps this site in the realm of education: how to build a budget, how UK bills behave, how to sequence savings, and when to pick up the phone to free debt advice.

What we do

We produce clear guides on personal budget planning in the UK and we speak with households who want a structured walkthrough of their own numbers. A typical conversation is ninety minutes: net income, immovables, the leak, then one method they will still be using in six weeks. We will not sell you a product, a lead-generation mortgage or a paid debt package.

What we will not do

We will not tell you which ISA provider to open, which tariff to switch to, or whether to overpay the mortgage. Those questions can involve regulated advice. We will show you how to put the decision in the right column of a budget and where official guidance lives (MoneyHelper, Ofgem, your local authority, Citizens Advice).

Cunealriva planner at a wooden table in a bright home office

How we work

Sessions are by appointment at the Birmingham studio or by phone. Bring last month’s statements if you have them. If you do not, we start from memory and replace it with figures afterwards — a wrong number on paper is still more useful than a perfect number in your head.

Email [email protected] or call +44 7225 003646, Monday to Friday, 9am to 5pm UK time. We reply within one working day.

Local first

Examples use English billing cycles, Birmingham bands and UK tax wrappers, not a Californian rent ratio.

Numbers over mood

We would rather you leave with a list of Direct Debits than a slogan about abundance.

A clear boundary

Education and planning support. When a question needs a regulated firm, we say so and stop.

Want a second pair of eyes on your numbers?

Write from Birmingham or call during UK office hours. We help households lay out a budget they can actually keep, not a spreadsheet they abandon in March.

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