Money Guiders Northern Ireland Event (In-Person Event: Belfast)

Money Guiders NI Network welcome staff across Northern Ireland to join us in learning about support to empower confident conversations.

About this event

This is a fully funded event from The Money and Pensions Service and it is great opportunity to talk all things money guidance! You will be provided with information on what the Money Guiders NI Network has to offer and what the Money Guiders programme is all about. This will be a chance to connect with other NI organisations and create meaningful relationships to share best practice to improve your confidence in handling money matters for your service users. Ultimately taking your help further.

We will be breaking down the Money Guidance Competency Framework into its 12 topics in a workshop style event and attendees will get a chance to cover 2 or more of the following:

1. Knowing your customer – for example having insight of the ways in which life events can affect an individual’s circumstances.

2. Debt

3. Borrowing

4. Welfare and benefits

5. Budgeting and cashflow

6. Savings

7. Investments

8. Taxation

9. Insurance

10. Households

11. Pensions

12. Planning for later life

Who is leading this session?

This session is lead by the Northern Ireland Money Guiders team.

Who should attend?

All money guidance practitioners who are supporting service users with diffcult conversations and anyone offering guidance to improve the financial wellbeing. If you are a practitioner want to connect with others and help build a community of support to lead to better financial wellbeing.

Agenda

What will you gain from the event?

We know that practitioners are at the heart of many financial wellbeing interventions and they have the power to make a real difference to the way people manage their money. Currently, there is no common view of what good looks like and there can be a lack of clarity about where regulated boundaries are present. This is an opportunity for Practitioners to change this by a coming together to exchange good practice about how they can most effectively improve the money skills of the people they serve.

By the end of the event attendees will have gained:

• A chance to learn more about the value of Money Guidance
• Free Money Guidance materials and branded goody bag
• Insight into money matters and how you can develop them
• Sharing details on your services and support tools
• Peer to peer support as well as a Q&A at the end
• Facilitated networking with a range of NI organisations
• A chance to speak with a representative from the Money Guiders Project
• Free refreshments and lunch will be provided.

Links to the Competency Framework

This session will cover all aspects of the Money Guidance Competency Framework.

Accessibility 

The event is in person and will be hosted in the Clayton Hotel Belfast – 22 Ormeau Avenue, Belfast, Northern Ireland, BT2 8HS. We will be providing refreshments and lunch for the event too.

If you have accessibility requirements, please inform us when you register by emailing moneyguidersni@reed.com and we will do our best to meet them.

Practitioners should always remember to keep their own client and customer details confidential.

Keep Up To Date With The Money Guiders Northern Ireland Network:

• Contact: moneyguidersni@reed.com
• Register with the Northern Ireland Network
• LinkedIn Page
• Facebook
• Twitter

The Money Guiders Programme

Money Guiders is a programme run by MaPS, which seeks to help money guidance practitioners improve their knowledge, skills and confidence. Everything that the Money Guiders programme offers centres around the Money Guidance Competency Framework - it's there to help you better understand the full breadth and depth of money related issues that fall outside of the regulated financial advice service sector - the things you talk to your customers about.

Before attending the session, you could spend some time considering the challenges you face in your work, specifically when you provide help and guidance to your clients or service users around money issues.

• How do you spot potential problems?

• How can you start conversations about money in a sensitive way and at the appropriate time?

• How do you maintain good boundaries in your role as a money guidance practitioner within your main area of work?

The Money Guiders Competency Framework

Click here to view the Money Guiders Competency Framework (English)

Click here to view the Money Guiders Competency Framework (Welsh)

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