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Work with us to help us develop our Financial Skills for Life (FSfL) programme.
Link with a local bureau
185 bureaux are now delivering financial skills projects in their communities. They improve the financial skills of adults and young people, reaching a wide range of communities from ex-offenders to migrant workers. Bureaux work with a wide range of local partner agencies to reach learners and deliver effective programmes. These include agencies from the health, housing, social, community, training and education, regeneration and corporate sectors.
Many bureaux provide financial skills training to front-line workers in other agencies, so they can better support their clients.
To see if there is a bureaux project near you, take a look in our directory of projects in England and Wales.
Berwick, participant from local front-line agency, 2007
"It was great fun and useful. We were chatting at lunch and complaining that the school didn’t offer any practical advice and you came and solved our problem! Thank you very much!"
Join a financial capability forum
Since the beginning of 2007 FSfL has supported fourteen financial capability forums, covering all English regions and Wales. Forums are led by bureaux or other community partners and provide an opportunity for local agencies to get together, share experiences and resources and develop joint projects. As a collection of interested and active agencies, they can also act as a catalyst for identifying and delivering cross agency projects for funders and other stakeholders. They usually meet three or four times a year.
Bank of America has agreed to fund forums and a national Co-ordinator for the forums from January 2008 to December 2009.
Spondoolies is a forum for all those engaged in financial learning for adults. You can talk to other practitioners; find out what is going on; read reports of other people's events and much more. To access information, participate in on-line discussions you need to register. This can be done from the home page and usually takes 24 hours.
Join us as a national partner
FSfL works with national delivery and other partners to be effective. We have already worked on a range of partnerships projects with organisations such as Mencap, Fairbridge and NIACE.
Are you a national/regional organisation thinking of providing financial skills training to your clients? Would you be interested in hearing about our work, with a view to working with us?
Or are you undertaking policy or research work and interested in looking at working with us?
Carol Bennett, Training and Employment Co-ordinator, Powerhouse Foyer
"I have previously used Speke Citizens Advice Bureau to deliver a financial literacy course. It was run slightly different but worked well with the client group at Powerhouse Foyer. This encouraged me to book the training course again.
"The new format that the bureau trainer used worked really well. The residents were able to keep track of their own progression and work at their own pace, using the booklets she used. The discussions also worked well as the separate topics covered each week were relevant to the residents’ situation living semi-independently. Issues of weekly budgeting, debt managing, and banking were all essential topics they needed advice and guidance on. The trainer also ensured that all members were able to take part in the group work, which lead to some useful lively debates."
Join us as an investor partner
Would you like to help us improve the financial skills of vulnerable groups?
Whether you come from an industry, government, housing or community sector context we would be pleased to hear from you.
Citizens Advice and FSfL has a track record of successfully delivering projects for a range of investors, including projects aimed at particular communities or with a specific remit. As the membership body for Citizens Advice Bureaux across England and Wales we are well placed to co-ordinate projects that are delivered through local bureaux.
We welcome the chance to have informal discussions about how we might work with your organistion or company. Please email John Rhodes, Head of Financial Capability or phone 020 7833 7066.
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