Money Ed

Personal Financial Education Courses

The courses will be run by Philip Evans, who has 10 years experience teaching personal finance skills.
 

Personal Finance 101: A rolling course of five modules covering the basic know-how of handling money effectively.  It includes understanding yourself well enough to use your money to your own best advantage, budgeting, shopping skills, evaluating sales tactics (marketing, advertising and sales talk), borrowing (credit) and recovering from debt.  Contact Philip to find out when the next series will begin.

Christian Living in a Consumer Society: Spend a Sunday afternoon looking at what Christ teaches about money and basic money handling skills (like budgeting, borrowing and clearing debt).  Contact Philip to find out the date of the next course.

Personal Finance Development Course: A course for anyone considering volunteering to train as a debt adviser and anyone else who would like to mentor, befriend or otherwise support people with money problems. Venue and dates to be announced but please contact Philip if you would like to join.

Philip is available to conduct personal finance courses at other churches and schools and for the employees of local businesses. To contact Philip about this or anything else, please click here.

You may find these leaflets useful. Click on the title to download the ones you want (pdf format).

'Lifestyle Choices: God or Mammon'

'Debtability: Helping A Friend Through Financial Crisis'

'Financial Healthcheck: Checking Your Own Financial Stability'

'Keping Within Means: Living On A Pension'

'Making Ends Meet: Living On A Low Income'

'Money For Life' (Information for teens and older)

'Student Violence/Victim Critical: Financial Guidance for Students'

You may find these booklets by Philip helpful. Click on the images below for free downloads.

If you have a debt or other money problem and need advice, you can contact the following organisations.

National Debtline.

You can get free advice by phone or e-mail.

0808 808 4000 (calls to this number are free from landlines and most mobile networks)

www.nationaldebtline.co.uk

Advice UK

An umbrella organisation for independent advice centres that can tell you where to get help in your area.

020 7469 5700 (you will have to pay for these calls)

www.adviceuk.org.uk

Citizens Advice

The organisation that coordinates the work of local Citizens Advice Bureaux. It can tell you which is your closest Bureau.

www.citizensadvice.org.uk