How do we track down a Child's bond ?

Dick_here

When LO was born her great-grandfather took out a child's bond for £1k to pay out when she is 18. He is now deceased and we've no idea where the thing is or who it was taken out with. It's probably with her father who we've no contact with, and he's probably lost it anyway. We don't want to go getting involved with him, that's for sure.

So, is there a starting point who we could contact and they could check all possible sources of the bond ? At present, we're stumped as to what, if anything, we can do to trace it

Thanks all.

zx2011

Contact the Tracing Service at National Savings.

http://www.nsandi.com/help/tracing_service.jsp

Dick_here

marcgr wrote: »

Contact the Tracing Service at National Savings.

http://www.nsandi.com/help/tracing_service.jsp

Thanks.

We don't know if it was taken out with them, a bank, building society, insurance co or anything else though. Is there anything that would search everywhere ?

Mikeyorks

There's an article by Martin on the main site that contains a lot of advice on tracing lost / dormant accounts. As here :-

http://www.moneysavingexpert.com/reclaim/reclaim-lost-assets-free

Dick_here

I'm aware of mylostaccount, but it's for banks and bldg socs. Is there an equivalent for insurance companies/friendly socs, which is where this child's bond may well be ?

zx2011

Contact the ABI.

http://www.abi.org.uk/DISPLAY/default.asp?Menu_ID=773&Menu_All=1,773,0&Child_ID=818

If the ABI can't help try:
http://www.uar.co.uk/ (Unclaimed Assets Register)

Dick_here

Thanks, that's the sort of thing I was hoping to hear