
General Benefits Advice for Older People (65 and over) Trying to navigate a complex welfare benefits system can be daunting. Retirement, taking pensions, new or worsening…
The unique Money Angels model is built on 20 years experience delivering community based money advice to those going through a tough time with their finances.
Money Angels are trained members of any community who can give specified guidance and connect people to free, impartial, relational face-to-face money advice.
As a Money Angel you will be equipped, enabled, and empowered to support the process from identifying a need to change, to the connection with the technical support available to bring about that change.
Our web-based training and regularly updated resources portal is available on an annual subscription basis to organisations connected to an advice service (we can provide your organisation with support to connect to your local advice service).
Our team would love to have a conversation with you if you are interested in becoming a Money Angel, or hosting Money Angels as part of your organisation.
Money Angels can be any one in any setting who are trained to have guided, intentional conversations in community spaces with those identified as in need of support. Money Angels can connect people directly to the technical support (debt and benefits advisors) in an advice setting. This connection to the specialists supports our commitment to compliance and excellence when it comes to the provision of specialists support for those requiring debt advice, advice with welfare benefits, and any referrals to additional support services as required.
Our web-based training comprises of a 30-minute training video (broken down into bitesize chapters) and a short multiple choice quiz based on the video content. The training has been developed by qualified practitioners and is regularly reviewed. This resource has been designed to be user-friendly and accessible to anyone who wishes to increase their knowledge so that they can give specified guidance to those going through a tough time with their finances.
The resources portal is regularly updated with fact-sheets and third party resources. As a Money Angel you will be encouraged via our social networking platform "Angels Connect' to check the portal each time a new resource is published.
All Money Angels will be given access to a simple referral form that will be bespoke to the community and money advice service that they are working with. We can work with advice services to ensure that locality relevant data is collected at the point a referral is made by a Money Angel.
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Anyone can become a Money Angel. Get in touch with us and we will see if there is an advice service in your area that we can connect you to.