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Are you looking for ways to support the financial wellbeing of your employees and help them become more financially resilient? Look no further as Financial Fitness Fridays is back to help your employees sprint into 2021. Our winter series will commence on Friday 12th February and will be running for 4 weeks, every Friday at 11am. We analysed all the feedback from the last series and will be running webcasts on topics chosen by you.

Friday 12th February at 11am
How to use employee benefits to form solid economic foundations for financial wellbeing

When we are financially stressed, it can have a negative impact on our mental health. One way to minimise that financial stress is by ensuring you have solid economic foundations. This may include having an emergency fund, having little or no high intertest debt and having protection in place for your family.

When forming those solid economic foundations, your employee benefits could be a good place to start. Join our host Darren Laverty and our expert guest speaker Darren Cole, Employee Benefits Adviser, as they look at different types of employee benefits and how you can use these to support your own economic foundations.

Friday 19th February at 11am
How and where to find good quality financial guidance

When we are faced with making financial decisions, its vital we are armed with the best possible advice and guidance. With so many options out there if can be difficult to know where and who to go to.

For this webcast, host Darren Laverty and our expert guest speaker and Financial Adviser Jamie Smith, will be discussing the different types of advice and guidance available, why it’s important to take advice, what you should expect to pay for advice and guidance as well as what makes a good Financial Planner.

Friday 26th February at 11am
How to reduce levels of financial stress and anxiety

In this session Darren will be joined by special guest speaker Emily Cooke. Emily is a Business Psychologist at Thrive UK and will be sharing her knowledge and expertise on the most common causes of stress and anxiety, how people can help themselves with financial anxiety, what people can do to feel more in control as well as much, much more!

Friday 5th March at 11am
Everything you need to know about tax including information on the 2021 Government Spring Statement

There is lots to learn and understand when it comes to tax and it’s certainly one of the more complex areas. To help you get to grips with tax, Darren will be joined by Financial Adviser Grace Agnew. Grace will be discussing how someone can pay less tax now, what capital gains tax is, cash ISA’s, stocks and shares, inheritance tax and more. Darren and Grace will also be looking at the latest information and key takeaways from the Spring Statement.

Make sure you and your employees don’t miss out on our winter series of Financial Fitness Fridays. Register here.

If you missed the autumn series, there are still a few weeks to watch all the episodes, here.

The Workplace Financial Wellbeing LinkedIn Group is holding the below financial wellbeing webinar.

How to create an effective workplace financial wellbeing strategy

In this slightly longer tutorial, you will come away with tools and strategies to construct a financial wellbeing strategy for your specific unique workforce and ensure that you can make the biggest positive difference in the quickest time and at the most cost effective way. This tutorial is simply one not to be missed if you truly want to improve the financial wellbeing of your employees. If you do nothing else, jump on this one!

Click on the date to book your place on the webinar:

• 24th February 10.30am
• 9th March 10.30am
• 25th March 10.30am

Join our online round table event - revitalise your employee benefits comms, on Tuesday 23rd March from 10am-11am. In this intimate event, we’ll be hosting an open discussion for HR professionals, with HR professionals.

During this event Mark Bingham, Partner at Secondsight and Author of COMMS: Moving your benefit story on, will be hosting a discussion on:

• what is effective communication?;
• how can you improve your benefits communication?;
• how can good benefits communication improve your ROI; and
• why good benefits communication will improve employee wellbeing.

Come and share your own experiences and learn from other like-minded professionals in this small, informal online round table event. Following the event, you will receive a copy of Marks book. Don't miss out, register to attend here. 

You can find out more information in our event flyer, here.