Financial Wellbeing, Relationships

Financial support signposting update:

Money Advice Plus (08081 963 699)

Money Advice Plus has a Specialist Debt & Benefit Advice, plus a Casework & Support service.

Moreover, what stands out is the Financial Support Line for Victims of Domestic Abuse.

If this sounds of interest, go check out the site or give the General Information line a ring.

Local support also specialist offices –

Brighton Office: Call: 08081 963699Email: info@moneyadviceplus.org.uk

Eastbourne Office: Call: 01323 635 999Email: advice@moneyadviceplus.org.uk

Charities, Financial Wellbeing, Job Searching Tips

New Resource added to signposting: Christians Against Poverty (CAP)

Christians Against Poverty is an organisation open to everyone who offer various avenues of support:

Debt Support free advice to support with the best route to get out of debt faced.

Life Skills (8 week in person group course) to help live life on a low income.

Money Coaching free service to support with developing the knowledge, skills, tools and confidence to better manage finances.

Job Clubs to gain skills and support to find work.  free service designed to empower you with the knowledge, skills, tools and confidence to better manage your finances

Stay aware of your options, Stay Fruity.

Career Development Tips, Financial Wellbeing

Free Financial Coach at work for some

Source: Wickens from Employee Benefits, 2022 and (Wickens 2022b).

Having a HR background, it is amazing to see some companies like IDHL and Visionable are taking additional steps like free financial coaching from Bippit to ensure the financial wellbeing of their staff (achieving goals, future planning and analyse spending) . The career development question creeps up, does your company support you to this level?

Stay aware, Stay You, Stay Fruity.

Real Rubens

Financial Wellbeing, Workplace benefits

Financial Wellbeing: Union action secures cleaners 16% pay rise

Source: Wickens, 2022. For those who believe unions have lost gravitas, here’s a grain among the endless evidence to show the importance of unions in the 21st century workforce.

Bolivian members of United Voices of the World (UVW) voted to take union action and secured a 16% pay increase after their employer agreed to pay the living wage.

What an outcome!

Stay You, Stay Fruity.

Real Rubens