Effective Signposting for FinWELL Champions®️🏅

We've created this central page as a simple way for our FinWELL Champions®️🏅 and Instructors to effectively signpost friends, family, colleagues and team mates to relevant resources whatever their situation along life's financial journey. 

Rather than just sharing the link to this page, we encourage you to familiarise yourself with as many of these resources as possible so you can explain each of them for when the need arises.

We also invite FinWELL Champions®️🏅 to complete our anonymous conversations tracker so we can measure impact and ensure the highest possible standards of support and safe guarding.
StepChange Debt Charity

Take a look at our page dedicated to the fantastic services offered by StepChange including there debt test and various case study videos.
Martin Lewis - Money Saving Expert

Grab the latest deals, guides, tips 'n' tricks directly from Martin and the MSE team and sign up to get regular updates.
Turn2Us

Turn2us helps people in financial need gain access to welfare benefits, charitable grants and other financial help – online, by phone and face to face through our partner organisations.
Money Helper - Budgeting Planner

Money Helpers free budget calculator will help you to know exactly where your money is being spent, and how much you’ve got coming in. Knowing how to manage a budget – keep track of where every pound is being spent – is a great first step to starting your savings, getting out of debt or preparing for retirement. 
Equifax

​Equifax monitor your Equifax credit report, provide you with alerts, and help you recover from ID theft so you can focus on living your financial best.
Surviving Economic Abuse
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One in five women in the UK has experienced economic abuse by a current or former partner in the past 12 months. Economic abuse rarely happens in isolation; it normally happens alongside other forms of domestic abuse.

If you are in immediate danger, call the police on 999 or click more info if you need help or are supporting someone.
Gambling Care & Support

Gambling Harm Support Starts Here.

​When you're ready to talk, we're ready to listen.

Click below for more info. 
Help for Households

Help for Households is a fantastic government website with information around income support, energy bills, child-care costs, housing support, transport costs, help finding work, savings and discounts. 
Help with your Energy Bills

Learn about the £400 reduction in energy bills for households in Great Britain from this October. This automatic, non-repayable discount will be applied in six instalments between October 2022 and March 2023 to help households through winter.
90+ ways to save money

​Here's a guide from Martin 'Money Saving Expert' Lewis, with over ninety ways to save cash to get yourself through this situation.
What income support are you entitled to?

Learn what financial support and benefits might be avaialable for you and your household.
Access Discounts and Offers

Get offers from numerous businesses to help with the rising cost of living.
Need to be better with budgeting?

The Money Charity Budget Builder is a free, easy-to-use, interactive tool, available on desktop and mobile, which will help you create your own customised budget and then use it to keep track of your day-to-day spending. 
Worried about rising debts?

Some people are cutting back on how much they spend on food, or eating less, so they can pay for heating but many are falling into arrears, or using credit to pay for essentials, making the problem worse.

Take a look at the options from our partners at StepChange Debt Charity offering free advice.
Olio

Olio is a mobile app for sharing by giving away, getting, borrowing or lending things in your community for free, aiming to reduce household and food waste. It does this by connecting neighbours with spare food or household items to others nearby who wish to pick up those items.
Too Good To Go

Food waste is a big problem, and we can be a solution. Too Good To Go is the app that lets you rescue unsold food from an untimely fate at your favourite spots.

The Basics - Useful Videos

What is Financial Wellbeing?
Budgeting Basics
The 50/30/20 Rule
Emergency Funds