Financial Inclusion Network
FIN News: 20 November 2024
Welcome to this week's Financial Inclusion Network news
The Financial Inclusion Network is an informal group of over 250 members taken from the Public and Third Sectors which covers all areas of South Lanarkshire. This network is to share information from a wide range of themes. We hope to provide a new update each week that can be accessed by all members at any time to see what is going on in the area under the headings below. If you would like an item included within our weekly news, please complete our short online form here: https://forms.office.com/e/Ht5w7iAuFi. For further information, please email communities@southlanarkshire.gov.uk
Money is not the only problem – Online Access
There are many things which you may need to be able to access online, such as shopping, job applications and benefits help. If you need either equipment, skills or an internet connection to be able to do this, the following section lists places that may be able to help you.
https://www.southlanarkshire.gov.uk/directory/182/money_is_not_the_only_problem/category/517
Healthy Working Lives – Free Mental Health Training for Managers in Lanarkshire
Book your FREE place between Friday 29 November 2024 and Friday 6 December 2024 to seize the opportunity to attend Mentally Healthy Workplace Training for Managers (MHWT) at no cost to you or your workplace.
Mentally Healthy Workplace Training for Managers course delivered online to workplaces within Lanarkshire (2 sessions x 3 hours) with optional dates in our 2024/2025 training programme.
To secure your place email:
enquirieshwl@lanarkshire.scot.nhs.uk quote BLACKFRIDAYMHMT.
Please also see our latest newsletter:
https://mailchi.mp/lanarkshire.scot.nhs.uk/novnews24
Nourish Scotland – Food Poverty Demonstration
There will be a march in Edinburgh on the Human Rights day which is Tuesday 10 December to demand that the Human Right Bill be reintroduced into Scottish Government’s programme of work for this term. The right to food has been a recurring conversation within the Dignity work and has been the topic of a DPN monthly meeting earlier this year. We would therefore like to invite you to save the date for Tuesday 10 December, from 11am to 2pm, to gather outside the Scottish Parliament Building in Holyrood.
Funding secured to help improve health and well-being
A project based in Hamilton is on the move thanks to funding of nearly £10,000 from the Can Do Community Challenge Fund.
The MorphFit Gentle Movement Project applied for financial support to develop its Meet, Move and Learn programme which, developed through community consultation, seeks to improve the physical, mental, and emotional wellbeing of special groups in the community.
Asda – Coffee with a Copper
The Asda Community Champion is inviting everyone to come along to the Asda Café Blantyre for a wee chat and blether with the local Community Police Officers and other guests.
Coffee with a Copper is being held on Thursday 28 November from 6pm to 8pm.
Have your say on budget savings
Proposals have been tabled for the council’s next budget – and residents are being urged to get involved. In particular, views are being sought on 24 options that would save up to £11.894 million in 2025/26.
More details, and how to take part in the survey, in the View: https://orlo.uk/0mOB7
