Michael Sheen, as part of his End High Cost Credit Alliance work, together with the Mirror's Fair Credit For All campaign, visited Nottingham on the 10 May 2019, hosted by the 'Nottingham Financial Resilience Partnership', the partnership which Financial Inclusion Support established and continues to work sessionally for. The day included visits to Whitemoor Academy to see a financial education lesson in action, meeting and hearing from a women's group in Aspley, from clients of St Ann's Advice Service and from clients at Nottingham Credit Union. People told their personal experiences of debt and credit and the often devastating impact it had had or was still having on their lives.
As part of the day, Emma at Financial Inclusion Support, presented an overview of development of the Partnership and work progress to date in the city and was also delighted to be part of hosting throughout the day.
The Aspley women's group that was part of the visit is a group that Emma had recently begun some work with for the 'Money Hubs' project. We are delighted that as part of Michael's visit, they officially launched as the 'Aspley Money Hub', becoming the first group to formally establish in the city!
Michael's visit to Nottingham was enabled through Experian who are a part of the Partnership. The inspiring school lesson they watched in action was actually taken from Experian's primary school resource, 'Values, Money and Me'.
The visit resulted in two page spread in the Mirror on the 22 May. The Mirror has given Nottingham it's second Fair Credit For All stamp of approval for the financial education work. What's more, Michael's End High Cost Credit Alliance will come back to Nottingham later this year for work with partners.
