E-learning on personal financial skills
To support your personal financial skills and decision making we are delighted to offer five online courses provided by Money Advice Scotland, the Open University and Barclays bank.
Financial Capability e-Learning Module, designed to help you improve your money management and budgeting skills.
The module will help you to create your own personal household budget and to prepare financially for the future, with lots of hints and tips around how to save money along the way. It doesn’t matter if you have never budgeted before, or would just like to improve your financial awareness – there will be something in the module for you.
Managing My Money – practical guidance to develop your personal finance skills
Managing your debt – this course helps you to identify bills you need to pay and how to prioritise repaying your bills plus explore how we get into debt
Planning your personal budget – this course will help you to identify your sources of income and understand how to create a budget which tracks your income and expenditure
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:
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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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