When
Thursday 5 December 2024, 11.00-12.00
Where
Online
About this webinar
During this webinar, we will hear about the growing need for emergency crisis support and why a cash first approach is so important and how helping people with immediate needs can enable them to receive more complex over all support. We will consider some of the challenges of cash delivery and consider best practice on such schemes.
Who should attend?
Money Guiders who want to get more insight better supporting people they work with to improve their financial wellbeing, especially where you might be helping people who are facing immediate crises.
What you will learn
During this session we will cover
- Welcomes and introductions
- Importance of crisis support - growing need
- Case for cash - evidence on cash first over other forms of support
- Challenges of cash delivery
- Overview of Cash Perks
- Case studies: Getting funds to vulnerable groups and engaging people in support
- Key best practice on delivering welfare assistance schemes
- Questions and answers
Who is the speaker?
Gareth Evans is the founder and director of Cash Perks. Over the last 20 years, Gareth has worked with a range of voluntary and community sector organisations, social housing providers, local authorities and other public sector agencies to tackle poverty and financial exclusion.
LinkedIn: Gareth Evans