More Than Advice: Why community debt advice matters more than ever (Talk Money Week Webinar)

As part of Talk Money Week, and taking place a year on from the publication of the Government's Financial Inclusion Strategy, Resolve Poverty, alongside our partners from the More Than Advice programme, will explore the role and potential of community-based debt advice and why it matters within the wider financial inclusion and policy landscape.

The webinar will introduce More Than Advice and how its community-based approach is being delivered across the programme, share early learning and reflections, and create space to consider the wider implications for policy and practice. 

About the programme

More Than Advice is exploring how community-based debt advice can better support Black, minoritised and marginalised communities.

Funded by Impact on Urban Health, the programme brings together delivery partners Rooted Finance, Citizens Advice Southwark and Brixton Advice Centre, alongside learning and evaluation partners Resolve Poverty and the Financial Inclusion Centre. Together, the partnership is testing and learning from holistic, relationship-based approaches to debt advice and generating evidence to inform future policy, funding and commissioning decisions.

About this session

This session will provide an opportunity to: 

• Learn about More Than Advice and how its community-based approach is being delivered in practice.
• Hear early reflections and emerging insights from across the partnership, including what the programme is beginning to tell us about community-based approaches to debt advice.
• Consider the wider policy and financial inclusion context, and the questions More Than Advice raises for future policy, commissioning and practice. 

The webinar is open to anyone with an interest in debt advice, financial inclusion, anti-poverty and related issues, including those working across national and local government, policy, advice services, health, regulation, funding, community and voluntary organisations, and research. 

For more information about the programme, and to register your interest in future activity, please visit: https://urbanhealth.org.uk/partnerships/current-partnerships/community-based-debt-advice.