Samantha Godden, Manager of Community and Outreach – Financial Capability at The London Institute of Banking & Finance, shares how their work to evaluate the Lessons in Financial Education Programme is supporting their commitment to improve the improve the impact of financial capability programmes across the sector.
DebtAware is the name for the financial education work of national debt charity Debt Advice Foundation. The premise of the programme is that many people find themselves in serious debt because of a lack of financial capability, therefore, young people should be given the chance to learn such skills at the earliest opportunity.
Marianna Lemus, Research and Evaluation Manager at Young Enterprise, explains how they’re taking a flexible, but common approach to evaluating their Centres of Excellence using the MAS Financial Capability Evaluation Toolkit.
Tower Hamlets Business Education Partnership joined the Money Advice Service (MAS) CYP financial capability evaluation cohort, after presenting Abacus, our pilot family financial literacy project, at the Financial Education Forum.
Not Westminster is a network of people working in local government, community activists, thinkers and doers with a mutual interest in creating and sharing ideas for stronger local democracy. Earlier this month, Renaisi took part in the annual gathering in Huddersfield. We ran a workshop to explore what makes a good local conversation in a
The problem: how to maintain action from your supporters? The festive season provides valuable campaign opportunities for many charities to secure support from their volunteers and donors. The high levels of recognition and reputation many achieve at this time is important. But as they move out of these periods of high awareness, the challenge to
Young Women’s Trust supports and represents women aged 16-30 struggling to live on low or no pay in England and Wales and who are at risk of being trapped in poverty. In this blog, Emma McKay – a Senior Policy Officer at the charity (@EmsMckay), writes about their latest research and its value to policy makers.
Evaluating the impact of your public sector work is vital: it can help you to prove its value, attract extra investment and gain insights into how to improve as you scale up. In an interview, with Nesta for the Design for Europe project, Elliot Trevithick, TSIP consultant gives his top tips and advice on how to do it.
In 2015/16 Renaisi worked in partnership with Tony Burton CBE and the Community Development Foundation (CDF) to design and deliver the Department for Communities and Local Government Neighbourhood Planning & Capacity Building programme.
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