Northern Financial Inclusion Conference 2008

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It is 10 years since the Social Exclusion Unit’s report, “Bringing Britain together: a national strategy for neighbourhood renewal”, highlighted the lack of access to financial services by people living in deprived neighbourhoods. In the same year, LJMU and ABCUL published, “Towards Sustainable Credit Union Development”, which provided the impetus for major reform in the credit union sector. The Northern Financial Inclusion Conference aims to reflect upon 10 years of promoting financial inclusion and to offer key insights for the future.

Key speakers within the sector will address:
• Promoting financial inclusion – critical reflections, 10 years on.
• The Co-operative and financial inclusion.
• The role of local government in widening access to finance.
• Social landlords and financial inclusion.
• Widening access to finance for ex-offenders.
• Serving low income, high risk borrowers.
• Do financial capability initiatives lead to effective financial inclusion?

New credit union research, ‘Breaking through to the future, the strategic development of credit unions, 1998 – 2008’, will be launched at the conference.

For further information and the booking form, please click on the link to the right of this page

Save the date in your diary, Thursday 4th December 2008.

Registration starts at 9.30am and the conference will finish at 4.30 pm.
Cost is £85 for a full delegate and £35 for a concessionary rate (Concession are available to credit union members, CAB and money advice workers, community activists and volunteers. All costs include a buffet lunch and morning/afternoon refreshments).

ABCUL and LUMU would like to thank The Co-operative Bank for supporting the conference.

Further information from:

Clare Atkinson, ABCUL Conferences: 0161 819 6992 or
Kate Hawtin, Liverpool John Moore’s University: 0151 231 8175.