Welcome
Welcome to the Wiltshire Money website.
You will find information about who we are and what we do.
In the last year Wiltshire Money has engaged with many members of staff and over 130 organisations.
Wiltshire Money provides a regular EBulletin, which contains useful information and resources for staff. Find Wiltshire Money E Bulletins by Clicking here
For links to further information see our Helpful Resources Section by clicking here. You will find useful links to further information for example looking after your Mental Health during the Coronavirus outbreak and links to Benefits Calculators
We host quarterly forums and training events to help up-skill staff and keep them informed of any changes which impact on their clients’ financial capabilities.
We have an ‘Ask Wiltshire Money’ service which enables front line staff to contact Wiltshire Money for help finding the appropriate organisations/support for their clients.
Use the ‘Shout Out’ page to let us know about your events and changes and updates to your service.
Mailing List
We don't want you missing out, so if you forgot to sign back up or are new to Wiltshire Money, you can join our mailing list by clicking here and filling in the very short form.
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- Be the first to hear about our forum, training and events being offered
- Access to important updates about other services in Wiltshire
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Wiltshire Money News
News
Breaking News...
The summer Wiltshire Money Forum was a "Virtual Conference"
The "Virtual Agenda" is available to view here
The agenda provides links to presentations, useful contacts and information about housing, employment, debt etc. The Agenda will be available on this website for a while so that Wiltshire Money members can browse the links and information in their own time.
Live Events
We ran two "live" online meeting events, using google meet as the meeting platform.
Online meeting 1 was on 20th July at 2.30 - 3.00pm.
This was an informal catch up to say "hello" share news, find out how everyone is doing.
Online meeting 2 ran on 23 July at 12.00 - 1.00pm.
Q&A session. This meet provided an opportunity for discussion and for members to ask questions around topical issues on Housing, Council Tax, Employment issues & Furlough. We had 22 members join the call and a range of issues were discussed from Housing re-possession to Discretionary Housing payment rules and Redundancy questions
Future "Bitesize" Q&A/Training sessions - your views
The conference launched a survey to get your suggestions for a number of short (30-60 minute) virtual sessions. These (free to join) sessions will be run, by WM, in a Q&A based format with, where possible, questions submitted in advance. It would be great to have your views on whether this would be useful and your feedback on what topics you would like to see covered. (please click here to go to survey)
Wiltshire Citizens Advice click here to view changes to service provision as a result of current coronavirus outbreak 17 March 2020
Latest Job Vacancies
No current vacancies
Latest training events
The current Coronavirus situation has meant that face to face and group training events have largely been cancelled. Virtual presentations, training and webinars are all still taking place, however. See below links to relevant updates and information that I hope you will find useful
Could you spot a loan shark "Stop Loan Sharks" free 45 minute online training. Click here for dates & details
Wiltshire Citizens Advice (WCA) have recently provided a PP Presentation for Building Bridges on Benefits changes since COVID-19. You can view it here
DWP - New Skills Toolkit Course
More free courses have been added to The Skills Toolkit, with topics including getting the most out of Microsoft Outlook, introductions to finance and bookkeeping and understanding how computer networks operate.
The online learning platform is available to everyone and provides easy access to a selection of high-quality digital and numeracy courses, which can help people build up their skills, progress in work and boost their job prospects.
Benefits Training Company (BTC)
For interactive, professional input on how to best support people with welfare benefits issues, try booking onto one of the BTC live, modular online training courses.
For BTC Online Benefits Training available in July, August & September 2020 Click here
Housing Systems Housing Systems have put together an e-learning module on Coronavirus and Benefits. This is freely available to everyone. The team encourage you to share it with colleagues in other roles, such as housing workers or social workers, who might find it helpful too. The module can be found here - https://www.housingsystems.co.uk/COVID-19/E-Learning
You can also register for a number of webinars from Policy in Practice Webinars. including a recap of the major benefit changes since Coronavirus, Council Tax Support Schemes and SE Surplus Earnings.
Acas run regular webinars on employment law topics and employment relations. They're free to join, you just need to register in advance. You can view previous webinars and subject to available spaces, you can Register for upcoming webinars such as 'Furlough leave: the HMRC Job Retention Scheme'
Mental Health First Aid (MHFA) England have adapted their training courses so they can be accessed remotely, either through online instructor delivery or with digital only content. They havwe also developed a range of online resources, including "Supporting your Mental Health Whilst working from home".
Next Wiltshire Money Forum
The date is TBC - You can Email us to let us know if your organisation would like to present ("Virtually" if necessary) at a future Wiltshire Money Forum. We are always looking for volunteers!
Previous Forums
Wiltshire Money Forum - December 2019
Thank you to all those who attended the event. The event was attend by 27 delegates.
You can find the presentations here. The presentations include Wiltshire Council’s updated Discretionary Housing Payment (DHP) Policy 2019. The scheme can offer Housing Benefit customers short term financial assistance with their housing costs during periods of particular need. Housing costs can include help towards rent, tenancy start up costs, and moving costs.
In addition, the trainer contact details for the "Gambling Awareness" session if you have any questions or requests for further training are included in the presentation slides
Wiltshire Money Forum - September 2019
Thank you to all those who attended the event. The event was attend by approx 41 delegates. You can find the presentations here
All Presentations from earlier forums can be found on a separate web page by clicking here
Training and Events
See below for details of current training opportunities and feedback from previous events
Future training events
No training events are scheduled at this time
Previous training Events
Wiltshire Money - 1 day Universal Credit in Practice Course on the 5 February 2020.
“Very experienced and engaging trainer. I will definitely use the information we covered and the resource pack”
The course, run by the Benefits Training Company, provided an update for those working with clients in receipt of UC. A total of 16 delegates, from a range of organisations, attended the training. 81% of delegates said they would certainly go on to use the information given to them and 100% of the delegates rated the course rated the Course 8/10 or above.