Money Advice Scotland - free sessions - July/August schedule

Latest updates from Money Advice Scotland

Money Advice Scotland's latest events schedule for July and August 2024 are below. 

All sessions are free of charge. 

If you would like any further information, please do not hesitate to contact the Money Advice Scotland team.

July Events Summary:

• 9th and 23rd - Priorities and Focus (Mini Wellbeing Workshop)
• 10th - Train the Trainer 
• 10th - Managing Wellbeing Workshop
• 23rd - Train the Trainer
• 11th and 25th - Boundaries at Work (Mini Wellbeing Workshop)

August Events Summary:

• 8^th – Stress Management Workshop
• 13^th – Managing Wellbeing Workshop
• 15^th – Protecting Your Wellbeing Workshop
• 26^th – Priorities and Focus (Mini Wellbeing Workshop)
• 28^th – Boundaries at Work (Mini Wellbeing Workshop)

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Financial Wellbeing - Free training and resources to improve financial health

Alongside our ever popular Train the Trainer sessions, our Financial Wellbeing Team will be running webinars and workshops in July which are aimed at members of the public looking to build their money skills and financial resilience. We promote these across our social media channels and encourage you to repost and share amongst your networks to help reach service users who could benefit from attending these informative sessions. You can see all of our upcoming sessions with links to book on our Eventbrite page.

 

Train the Trainer: An introduction to Financial Wellbeing 

This course explores the meaning of financial wellbeing. We consider the foundational elements of financial resilience and the challenges to financial wellbeing, such as economic abuse and digital exclusion. We also look at how money guidance/financial education can be approached when working with a client or in a group setting.

This course is free of charge and open to everyone. It will be particularly well suited to those working in a supportive capacity who would like to gain a better understanding of financial wellbeing and how to introduce money guidance into their current role.

Upcoming Train the Trainer courses and registration links:

• Train the Trainer: An Introduction to Financial Wellbeing - 10 July, 9.50am - 12.30pm
• Train the Trainer: An Introduction to Financial Wellbeing - 23 July, 9.50am - 12.30pm

 

Workforce Wellbeing - Free Training and Advice for the Money Advice Workforce

Our popular and interactive wellbeing workshops are available to book from now until the end of August. These workshops aim to support and improve wellbeing by providing the time and space to think critically about what’s impacting your wellbeing and what you can do to improve wellness at work. Click here for all upcoming sessions.

Time and task management, boundary setting, and self-care are key contributors to positive wellbeing. Heather, our Workforce Wellbeing Officer, delves into each of these in our new Wellbeing Blog series, with the latest entry talking frankly about the necessity of self-care, and the need to integrate self-care behaviours into everyday working life – click here to read the blog.

The wellbeing training is aimed at advisers, support workers, and managers working in money advice or adjacent fields, including housing and welfare rights. 

Upcoming Workforce Wellbeing sessions:

• Mini Stress Management Workshop: Priorities and Focus - 09 July, 2pm-3pm
• Mini Protecting Your Wellbeing Workshop: Boundaries at Work - 11 July, 11am - 12pm
• Mini Stress Management Workshop: Priorities and Focus - 23 July, 10am - 11am
• Mini Protecting Your Wellbeing Workshop: Boundaries at Work - 25 July, 2pm - 3pm
• Stress Management Workshop - 08 August, 10am - 12pm
• Managing Wellbeing Training Workshop - 13 August, 1pm - 3pm
• Protecting Your Wellbeing Workshop - 15 August, 1:30pm - 3:30pm
• Mini Stress Management Workshop: Priorities and Focus - 26 August, 11am - 12pm
• Boundaries at Work Workshop - 28 August, 10am - 11am

 

Financial Wellbeing Library

Our new and growing Financial Wellbeing Library is home to a range of PDF articles, videos, and more. Anyone can visit this digital vault to explore and learn about important money topics. The library sits alongside our impactful support tools which are also free to use, including MAS Online Bank – for practicing digital banking in a safe environment – and our user-friendly e-learning modules.

 

Money Guiders Scotland Network - A free network of staff and volunteers from public, third and community sectors

Our team have been busy arranging events for money guidance practitioners and members of the Money Guiders Scotland Network. The Network provides free learning and development opportunities for money guidance practitioners to build their skills, knowledge, and confidence in holding conversations about money. Whether delivering money guidance is a small or significant part of your role, you’re welcome to join the community and attend any of the upcoming events which you can book for free via the Money Guiders Scotland Network Eventbrite page here.

Upcoming Money Guiders events:

• Introduction to the Money Guiders Scotland Network - 17 July, 11am - 12pm 
• Drug Trends and Harm Reduction for Money Guiders - 24 July, 1pm - 2.30pm

Join the Money Guiders Scotland network by clicking here.

 

MATRIX Learn

MATRICS learn is a free debt advice training programme for advisers working for organisations with FCA authorisation in Scotland who want to give free, impartial, non-judgemental, and knowledgeable advice to clients.
 
The programme is designed to allow learners to progress their training in line with the levels or ‘types’ of advice in the Scottish National Standards for Information and Advice Providers (SNSIAP) through an innovative and user-friendly structured learning plan.  Users follow a blended learning approach which promotes knowledge input via bite sized e-learning modules followed by discussion groups and workshops considering practical examples to deepen understanding and build confidence.
 
You can download a pdf of our courses here.
 
If you have any questions, please send your email to: matrics@moneyadvicescotland.org.uk
 
If you would like to register for an account with MATRICS, please click here.

 

Policy and Campaigns

We were delighted to host a Money Advice Sector General Election Hustings event in June. The aim of this event was to ensure that the voices of those working in the money advice sector were heard by candidates and to provide the chance to actively participate in the election campaign process. Discussion topics included social tariffs, child poverty, funding for the free advice sector, and irresponsible lending. We are very grateful to the political candidates who took the time to take part in the hustings as well as to everyone who attended and engaged in discussion. 

Look out for our next policy blog which will feature more about this event.

The Stage 3 Review of Scotland's Statutory Debt Solutions consultation is open until 18th July. You can access the consultation here. 

We want to make sure that the sector's views are heard in this important consultation and so we encourage you to complete our call for views to share your insight and help ensure our response is reflective of the perspectives and experience of important stakeholders. Click here to contribute to our response.

We are continuing to add to our policy blog with new content available every few weeks. 

If you have any questions or comments to raise with our Policy and Campaigns Team, please email policy@moneyadvicescotland.org.uk.