Money Education for Barking and Dagenham Residents

We’re working with Barking and Dagenham Council to help residents build financial skills and confidence.

Through practical money education and early support, this service will help you make informed decisions and improve your financial well-being.

To book an appointment, you can:

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Call us 020 7170 8083

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About the service

This free money education service supports you to build financial confidence, resilience and long-term stability through accessible, community-based learning and early intervention.

Designed to prevent hardship before it escalates into problem debt, the service will help you to understand your financial rights, entitlements, and safe money behaviours. This is whilst offering trusted local support that is personalised and responsive to you and your level of financial vulnerability.

To be eligible for this service, you will need to be:

A Barking and Dagenham resident
Over the age of 18

This service will deliver community-based education and will focus on the relevant finanical topics:

Early identification of financial risk
Building money confidence
Financial education
Budgeting skills
Financial resilience
Community outreach and engagement
Referral into specialist services when required

How we deliver the service

When booking an appointment with us, your session can take place one of three ways:

Face-to-face: your support will be given at a community partner centre, hub, or in-home.
Online session: your support will be delivered remotely via a web chat call.
Via phone: your support will be provided via a phone call by one of our partners.

Our trusted delivery partners are located in the Barking and Dagenham region and you can view them on our map. Click the map to enlarge the image.

Our Delivery Partners

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Service benefits

By booking an appointment with us, our free Money Education service will support you to:

Build financial resilience and confidence, preventing a future of financial difficulty.
Increase your understanding of financial rights, entitlements and safe financial behaviours.

Reduce any barriers for accessing free support.

Reduce demand on crisis by offering specialist debt advice, mental health, and health services by providing early, low-level education to prevent escalation into crisis debt.

If you are a Barking and Dagenham resident and are seeking free money education support, book an appointment today

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