From Financial & Digital Vulnerability to Inclusion

Summary Of The Session

Join us IN PERSON at the Kings Centre in HALIFAX for this special event on tackling financial vulnerability and digital exclusion.

This event is hosted by Calderdale Anti-Poverty Partnership and Money Guiders England Network.

Financial vulnerability and digital exclusion can both isolate from support people who are struggling to get by. Ensuring that people have the support that they need can make a huge impact.

Emma Waller, of Money Minded, will identify help us explore what financial vulnerability can look like and guide us to proven strategies for effective support.

A speaker from The Good Things Foundation will address the challenges of digital exclusion and will share what digital inclusion can look like and will suggest practical tools we can use in the fight against digital exclusion.

Who Should Attend This Event?

Money guiders and others tackling poverty and exclusion in their communities who want to meet IN PERSON to better understand financial vulnerabilities and digital exclusion, work towards solutions, give support and signpost to other resources.

People who attend could be frontline workers, volunteers, managers and community leaders from a variety of sectors, including:

• Voluntary, Community and Social Enterprise sector
• Employment/skills support services / organisations
• Staff and volunteers from organisations with an interest in tackling poverty
• Local employers
• Social workers
• Teaching / education staff
• Community workers
• Local councillors
• NHS & health professionals

What You’ll Learn From This Event

• What financial vulnerability can look like
• The key challenges people face when managing money
• Tried-and-tested strategies to build trust, boost confidence and offer effective support
• What digital exclusion is
• What digital inclusion can look like
• Practical solutions to help people move from digital exclusion to inclusion

Who Are The Speakers?

Emma Waller, Money Minded.

Speaker from The Good Things Foundation.

Jenny Wright, the Money & Pensions Service.

Networking Breakfast

We are pleased to be able to provide a light breakfast and teas and coffees for attendees from 9am

This event is a Money Guiders England Network collaboration with the Calderdale Anti-Poverty Partnership.

Accessibility

There is full disabled access to the venue and to the booked space.

Getting there

Public Transport

There are Bus stops just a few hundred yards from the building outside the People’s Park on King Cross Street with plenty of buses heading to and from Halifax town centre.

Parking

Parking is available on Park Road - 2 hours maximum stay for free. There are some free parking spaces with no time restrictions on Hopwood lane and surrounding side streets.

Alternatively, there are car parks nearer the town centre that are a 5 minute walk from the King’s Centre. (The nearest car park with EV charging is High Street Car Park, HX1 2ST)

Money Guiders' Competency Framework

This event ties in with the Money and Pensions Service's money guiders' competency framework, particularly concerning technical domain "Knowing Your Customer."

1. Knowing Your Customer

This domain is about understanding who the customer is and their needs – which they may or may not be aware of – and draws on many of the cross-cutting behaviours and skills that underpin practice. Visit the website for more information: https://maps.org.uk/en/our-work/money-guiders/competency-framework/technical-domains/1-knowing-your-customer.