For more than six years, Family Action and Barclays have worked together to help families build skills, confidence and pathways towards employment.
To bring this work to life, we created a short film, narrated by our brilliant LifeSkills Coordinator, Sarah Selvarajah, and filmed at the beautiful Bromley by Bow Centre. It shares how Family Action and Barclays LifeSkills are helping families build confidence, resilience and hope for the future, together.
Our strategic partnership has brought Barclays LifeSkills to communities across the UK. Through group sessions, one-to-one support and LifeSkills Assistance Grants, we are helping people develop practical skills and build the confidence they need to take their next steps towards employment.
Sarah Selvarajah, LifeSkills Coordinator, said,
A core part of our shared mission is helping families build financial confidence in practical, everyday ways. We know that financial confidence means different things to different people. For many families it starts with feeling more in control of day-to-day finances, having the confidence to make informed decisions, and knowing where to turn for trusted support when it is needed.
What Barclays has built, with the LifeSkills programme, is a way for people to get the skills they need to work. What Family Action brings is the trust, to let families actually use it.
Building financial confidence requires practical, community-led support
Sir David Holmes CBE, Chief Executive at Family Action, and Kirstie Mackey OBE, Managing Director, Citizenship UK & Europe at Barclays, write on why building financial confidence requires practical, community-led support. You can read the full article here: From survival to stability: How partnerships are strengthening UK financial confidence
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