Online workshop – focus on your finances
To support colleagues to focus on their personal finances we are delighted to provide a workshop that helps to a 90-minute course looking at the key aspects and considerations you might need to take when planning your finances.
Understanding your take home pay will help you make better-informed decisions related to your spending, likewise, budgeting enables you to exercise control over your outgoings. The importance of pension planning helps secure a better future for your later years and plan your retirement life comfortably.
Course Objectives
• Understand your income and plan your spending
• Review and keep track of your borrowing
• Plan your financial goals and prepare for those unexpected costs
• Start to plan for life beyond work whenever that may be
Dates
- Tuesday 6 June from 1.00pm – 2.30pm
Webinar hosting
The session will be on microsoft teams. You will be able to access it by clicking a provided link.
Find out more
on your pension and additional voluntary contribution (AVC) options available to you
Cycle2work is a salary sacrifice scheme. The discount comes from paying off the bike cost straight from your salary. This means you save on tax and national insurance with the bike cost going through as a non cash benefit.
The mylifestyle portal provides colleagues access to wide variety of savings all in one place.
Got a query or a question then check out the supports that are available:
By the end of the 90-minute session you will:
Sounds great – tell me more!
Hundreds of NLC colleagues are riding bikes they initially got through Cycle2work. In the video Claire Grierson from the Craigneuk Family Learning Centre shares her experience of getting a bike through Cycle2work and on the right Mairi MacVicar a Active School Co-ordinator also shares her experiences.
Clients will be required to arrive at their designated appointment time. There are no waiting areas open.
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