WEBINARS: ARCHIVE
Regularly reviewing personal finances can be very beneficial to both financial and mental wellbeing. Accordingly, Support Network is co-hosting a series of free webinars to help with this process.
Webinars are short and focussed and delivered by ‘Better With Money’ who are specialists in this area and are available to members and their family - you can attend as many as you would like to. (A recording of the webinar is sent to all those who register to attend, so that you can still watch the content if you cannot join the live event, or would prefer to watch it later.)
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Wed 24 Feb 2021: 12.30 - 1.00
- Tax in relation to your pay slips
- How your pensions are affected by tax
- Making the most of your savings
- Investments and benefits
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Wed 17 Mar 2021: 12.30 - 1.00
- How to budget
- Money-saving actions
- Debt-consolidation tips
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Wed 14 Apr 2021: 12.30 - 1.00
- Understanding a budget
- Planning outgoings effectively
- Credit ratings and how they can affect applicants
- What should be done before submitting an application
- Help to buy schemes
- The types of mortgages available
- Navigating the home buying process
- Managing a mortgage through your lifetime
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Wed 5 May 2021: 12.30 - 1.00
- How to talk to your children about money – how much can you afford to help?
- University life, being a good housemate, kitting out your child and apprenticeships
- What financial help is available?
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Wed 9 June 2021: 12.30 - 1.00
- How to create a plan for family finances
- Spending and savings habits
- Creating common goals
- Managing debt
- How to be open and honest about money
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Wed 14 July 2021: 12.30 - 1.00
- The importance of teaching children, as young as 4 years old, about money
- How to teach children the different uses of money
- How pocket money can be the most powerful financial education tool in the world
- Essential money habits to teach children
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Wed 22 Sep 2021: 12.30 - 1.00
- Why it is important to have a will
- The options available for creating a will
- Inheritance tax basics
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Wed 6 Oct 2021: 12.30 - 1.00
- Setting your Christmas budget
- Money saving tips
- Better financial habits
- Where to go if you need support
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Wed 3 Nov 2021: 12.30 - 1.00
- How pensions work
- What you can expect from the state pension
- How much you might need as an income in retirement
- What your preferred retirement lifestyle means in terms of pension contributions
- Pensions and tax relief
- Where to invest
- Top retirement saving tips
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Wed 17 Nov 2021: 12.30 - 1.00
- Making the most of employee benefits
- Insurance and what it means
- Understanding insurance policies available
- What do you need to consider?
- Protecting yourself against identity fraud
- Making your money work harder to protect you
- Making a will – do you need one?
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Wed 1 Dec 2021: 12.30 - 1.00
- Personal relationships and money
- Understanding budgets
- Reducing outgoings
- The credit check process
- Building emergency funds
- Managing ongoing finances
- Drawing up plans to be debt-free
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Wed 26 Jan 2022: 12.30 - 1.00
- Approaching the conversation the right way
- Drawing attention to your value as an employee
- The best time to ask for a pay rise
- Tips for increasing chances of success
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Wed 9 Feb 2022: 12.30 - 1.00
- A guide to various benefits including Universal Credit, Employment Support Allowance and Personal Independence Payments
- Checking eligibility
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Wed 23 Mar 2022: 12.30 - 1.00
- Inheritance tax
- Discussion of how much can be gifted to friends and family tax-free
- Where to invest money to make the most of tax allowances
- Options for writing your will
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Wed 20 Apr 2022: 12.30 - 1.00
- How to set up a business
- Budgeting for ups and downs
- Business insurance
- Tax
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Wed 18 May 2022: 12.30 - 1.00
- Travel money must-do's
- Travel insurance
- Cheapest way of spending money abroad
- Claiming refunds if things go wrong
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Wed 15 Jun 2022: 12.30 - 1.00
- Getting the best deal for you including electricity, gas, mobile and broadband providers as well as insurance
- Cutting costs
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Wed 13 Jul 2022: 12.30 - 1.00
- Discussion of the different types of investments available
- Relationship between risk and return
- Fees
- The right time to invest
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Wed 28 Sep 2022: 12.30 - 1.30
What to expect from and do with money in our:
- 20s
- 30s
- 40s
- 50s
- 60s
- Tips for planning ahead
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Wed 19 Oct 2022: 12.30 - 1.00
- Creating an emergency fund
- Saving for future plans
- Tips on what to do to be financially stable
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Wed 23 Nov 2022: 12.30 - 1.00
- Happy and sad occasions
- Starting a family/parental leave
- Childcare costs
- Job loss
- Illness
- Divorce
- Death
- Protecting yourself and your family against financial ups and downs
- Benefits available to you
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Wed 7 Dec 2022: 12.30 - 1.00
- Basic rules of growing your wealth
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Wed 18 Jan 2023: 12.30 - 1.00
- Getting the best deals as costs rise (electricity, gas and oil)
- Tips for managing energy costs
- Cutting costs
- Where to go for help
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Tues 24 Jan 2023: 12.30 - 1.00
- Tips for saving money that aren't discussed as much as they should be
- Saving money on the essentials (including food and fuel)
- Saving money on the fun stuff
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Wed 8 Feb 2023: 12.30 - 1.00
- Proactive tips for managing the cost of living
- Taking control of your money
- Weathering the financial storm
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Wed 23 Feb 2023: 12.30 - 1.00
- Good borrowing vs bad borrowing
- The importance of building a good credit score and how to do this
- Borrowing and paying back money wisely
- Good money management
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Wed 22 Mar 2023: 12.30 - 1.00
- Giving yourself the best possible chance of being accepted for a mortgage
- Pitfalls to avoid
- Saving for a deposit and setting a budget
- Improving your credit score
- Government help that is available
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Wed 19 April 2023: 12.30 - 1.00
- Making sure debt doesn’t build to a level where it affects health
- How to prioritise debt
- Consolidating debt
- Free debt help
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Wed 14 Jun 2023: 12.30 - 1.00
- How to budget
- Understanding your first pay slip
- Choosing the right bank account
- Tuning in to work place benefits
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Tues 18 July 2023: 12.30 - 1.00
- Common employee benefits to support your financial wellbeing
- How employee benefits work
- Making the most of what's on offer
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Wed 20 Sept 2023: 12.30 - 1.00
- What to ask when viewing a property
- What to watch out for in the tenancy agreement
- Things you need to know about paying a deposit
- Where to go for insurance
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Wed 18 Oct 2023: 12.30 - 1.00
- Divorce - the basics
- Understanding your finances now and in the future
- Pensions - avoiding the big mistakes
- Dealing with property and mortgages
- Tax considerations
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Wed 22 Nov 2023: 12.30 - 1.00
- What you can expect from the state pension
- How much you might need as income
- Pensions contributions - how much is enough?
- Where to invest
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Wed 10 Jan 2024: 12.30 - 1.00
- The best time to ask for a pay rise
- Approaching the conversation in the right way
- Drawing attention to your value as an employee
- Tips for increasing your chances for success
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Thurs 22 Feb 2024: 12.30 - 1.00
- Costs of a child
- Costs of childcare
- Sources of help/new gov schemes
- Maternity and paternity
- Going back to work and whether it’s worth it
- Other sources of financial help for parents (school uniform swap shops, cheaper days out, vouchers, support for people who don’t qualify for state benefits but feeling the pinch)
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Wed 20 Mar 2024: 12.30 - 1.00
- Getting your budget plan together
- Which debts to prioritise
- Reducing outgoings
- Maximising income
- Bringing debt together to reduce costs
- Where to go for further help
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Thurs 25 Apr 2024: 12.30 - 1.00
- Why should I consider investing?
- The different types of investments available
- Action Plan to start investing
- Beware of scams!
- Five golden rules of investing
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Thurs 9 May 2024: 12.30 - 1.00
- Types of financial adviser
- How to identify any education/accreditation or certificates
- What is relevant and what is a red flag?
- What can they help with and what can’t they help with?
- Limitations and benefits
- How to find a good financial advisor
- Planning and prepping for a first meeting
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Wed 19 June 2024: 12.30 - 1.00
- Almost a ‘second part’ to the investments for beginners webinar – though seeing the investments for beginners webinar won’t be a pre-requisite to watching this one
- Diversifying portfolios
- What to do and not do in market turbulence and what this means long term
- How world events affect investment risks
- Advisors and whether they’re worth it
- Types of risk and when they’re worth taking and when they’re not
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Thurs 11 July: 12.30 - 1.00
- Implications for employees/employers
- How state pensions are affected
- Social/medical insurance
- Double taxation systems
- VISAs
- Support systems
- Sources of further information
- NB: This webinar is from the point of view of a non-UK national coming to the UK to work
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Thurs 5 Sept 2024: 12.30 - 1.00
- The impact of caring responsibilities on your own money
- The importance of reviewing your budget
- Protecting your retirement savings
- State benefits available for carers
- Useful websites
- Help and support
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Wed 25 Sept 2024: 12.30 - 1.00
- Focus on finances while a student is currently at university
- Personal finances rather than tuition fee-based
- Tips for students who might be struggling financially at university
- Bursaries and scholarships that might be available and how to find them
- Getting things cheaply – budgeting, things that are available to students for free, NUS extra cards, when it’s cheap to shop, etc
- Student renting and how deposits work and how to ensure you get your deposit back
- Student jobs – Where to find them, types of job, making sure you’re not taxed unfairly (e.g. emergency tac and earning below thresholds)
- Overdrafts and using them properly
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Wed 23 Oct 2024: 12.30 - 1.00
- Affordability & benefits
- Types of loans, cheapest loans, reputable loans
- Buy now, pay later
- Secured vs unsecured debt
- Cutting loan costs including getting minimum charges
- Credit score and how loans affect your financial health
- Pre-Christmas money-management
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