Resource Library
Please browse the following categories for useful documents and links.
Affordable Credit
- Website allowing you to compare home collected loans available in your area
http://www.lenderscompared.org.uk/ - Solent Credit Union
http://www.solentcreditunion.co.uk/ - United Savings & Loans, Hampshire Credit Union
http://www.usal.org.uk/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D9FNOYb4whw - City of Plymouth Credit Union
http://www.cpcu.co.uk/ - South Coast Moneyline
http://www.scmoneyline.org.uk/ - East Sussex Credit Union
http://www.eastsussexcu.org.uk - Havant Area Savers Credit Union
http://www.hascu.co.uk/ - Access to Credit Unions for Everyone
http://www.acecus.org/ - Association of British Credit Unions
http://www.abcul.org/page/index.cfm - New Reporting requirements for Credit Unions
Credit Union Reporting - Example of a credit union offering money and energy advice
http://www.romcul.co.uk/monergy
Monergy Presentation notes Feb 2010 - Illegal Money Lending Team
Poster
Website: http://stoploansharks.direct.gov.uk/index.html - Financial Inclusion Centre report on loan sharks
The Real Cost of Christmas
- Financial Exclusion and Home Contents Insurance, Ipsos Mori 2007
Fin_Exc_Home_Contents_Ins_ipsos_mori.pdf - Financial Exclusion and Insurance: meeting low-income consumers’ needs, ABI Research Department 2007
ABI_Report_Financial_Inclusion_And_Insurance.pdf - Helping Tenants Protect Their Possessions – A Guide for Housing Officers, ABI 2009
TCI_Good_Practice_Guide_Nov_2009.pdf
Debt Advice/Financial Capability
- Managing Money: Helping people with debt, LGA & CAB publication
LGA_Managing_money_helping_people_with_debt.pdf - Debt and Older People, Help the Aged 2008
Debt_And_Older_People.pdf - Financial Exclusion Among Older People, Help the Aged 2006
Financial_Exclusion_Help_The_Aged.pdf - Lost in the Money Maze, Help the Aged 2008
How advice agencies and credit unions can help older people cope with today's financial systems - Consumer Credit Counselling Service
http://www.cccs.co.uk/ - National Debtline
http://www.nationaldebtline.co.uk/ - NHS Credit Crunch Stressline
NHS_Credit_Crunch_Stressline.pdf - Moneymadeclear Website
http://www.moneymadeclear.org.uk/ - Consumer Financial Education Body website
http://www.cfebuk.org.uk/ - A Guide to Personal Finance - for MPs & Councillors
financial_fringe_guide.pdf - BBC Documentary: 'Money'
BBC Flyer - 'Money' - NOMS/CAB Prison Project in Wales
Financial Capability Prison Project - Pre-tenancy guide example from Wales
My Home - Money Guidance Flyer April 2010
MG Flyer - In the Red, Mind 2008
Debt and Mental Health - Financial Capability and Wellbeing
Evidence from the BHPS - The London Health Forum
Reducing Health Consequences of Personal Debt - Debt and Mental Health
What do we know? What should we do? - Money and Mental Health: Looking after your Personal Finances
- Magazines on money matters for tenants: examples from Southampton
Moneytree 1st edition
Moneytree 2nd edition - Money guides for older people
Stockton-on-Tees example
Southampton example - Financial capability training for staff
Quaker Social Action: train the trainer - A guide to financial capability for social housing tenants
National Housing Federation & Toynbee Hall publication - Developing Advice Partnerships - Money Advice Trust
Housing Associations: Developing Advice Partnerships - Plymouth City Council
Case Study
Bank & Savings accounts
- Fourth Annual Report on Progress Towards the Shared Goal for Banking, Financial Inclusion Taskforce 2009
Fourth_annual_banking_report.pdf - Just the fact about basic bank accounts – Financial Services Authority
FSA_Basic_Bank_Accs_ink.pdf - Ethnicity & Cash Machines, Runnymede 2009
Who_Pays_To_Access_Cash_2009.pdf - Pension Reforms
Planning_and_Saving_For_Later_Life.pdf - A research study into the impact of the Co-operative Bank's project to enable prisoners to open basic bank accounts in HMP Forest Bank
Banking on a Fresh Start - Saving Gateway Intermediary Fact Sheet
Saving Gateway - Saving Gateway
Saving Gateway March 2010 - Training Resources
Financial Inclusion and Bank Accounts
Access to banking information booklet - London Borough of Merton Basic Bank Account Toolkit
Guidance for Local Authorities - Save Xmas Campaign (March 2010)
Ipsos Mori report: Evaluation of the Save Xmas Campaign
The Business Case for Financial Inclusion
- Economic impact and regeneration in cities: the case of Leeds. Leeds City Council 2009
Leeds_Fin_Inclusion_Report.pdf - The Business Case for Social Landlords investing in financial inclusion, Toynbee Hall
Business_Case_For_Social_LLs.pdf
Benefits
- Increasing the take up of formal childcare by low income families, Government Office for the North East
GO_NE_Hempsall_Consultancies_NI118_Report.pdf
Identification & Verification
- ID Guide: A guide to ID for banking, benefits and other services in the UK, Toynbee Hall
Toynbee_Hall_ID_Guide.pdf - ID Guidance for prison staff
Basic Bank Accounts for Prisoners
Employment
- Better support for offenders
Headline News March 2010
Relevant Reports
- Transact Conference 2010
- Resolution Foundation Press Release March 2010
- The Low Earners Audit
- Behind the Balance Sheet
- Budget 2010: Chapter 3, Reforming Financial Services
- Financial Inclusion and Ethnicity
- Low-income families and debt, IPPR February 2010
- National Audit Office: helping over-indebted consumers, January 2010
- Financial Inclusion and Housing: CIH baseline survey 2009
- Over-indebtedness in Britain, BIS report March 2010
- Seeking Sound Advice: Financial Inclusion and Ethnicity, Runnymede March 2010
- From Recession to Recovery: The Importance of Personal Finances
- Improving Financial Capability Among Offenders
- Financial Inclusion Guide - Southampton
- Financial Inclusion and Rural Social Housing
