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. See below for details of our newly added Market Place initiatve where you can highlight and promote your own financial and digital inclusion work.

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

You can take part in the event with our NEW Market Place

We warmly invite anyone who wishes to share about their organisation's financial or digital inclusion initiatives at our Market Place to sign up for a space at the Market Place here: https://forms.office.com/e/v1DddwjnHQ.

Who Are The Speakers?

Emma Waller, Money Minded. Emma is the founder of Money Minded, a highly successful financial wellbeing organisation delivering content, training and workshop delivery. She is an award-winning financial wellbeing consultant with extensive experience of supporting people to improve their financial knowledge, skills and behaviours. Emma works across private, public and voluntary sectors, designing and delivering financial wellbeing programmes for commercial clients, charities and community groups.

Bryony Evans, Network Growth and Activation Manager, from The Good Things Foundation. Bryony works in the Community Partnerships Team at Good Things Foundation. She worked on the launch of the Databank and grant programmes. Her role currently involves sharing information about the National Digital Inclusion Network, and collaborating with partner organisations to support digital inclusion delivery across the UK

Jenny Wright, from the Money & Pensions Service (MaPS). Having worked all of her life in Yorkshire and the Humber and as a massive advocate of the North, Jenny is committed to driving social and economic change to improve the lives of people in the region. Before joining MaPS, Jenny spent two decades working the financial services sector. She delivered front line services in some of the most deprived areas across the region and is proud to continue that work.

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.