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Discovering the state of the financial education and exclusion sector in Spain and understanding what can be learnt from the experience in the UK Recently the Fair Money Advice team took a trip to Madrid to collaborate with the Nantik Lum foundation. The trip was primarily an opportunity for FMA to complete the training of […]

We are proud and honoured to share the news that Fair Money Advice MD Muna Yassin, has been recognised in the Queen’s Birthday Honours List 2021 and has received an MBE for charitable Financial Services to Disadvantaged People during Covid-19. We are delighted that the critical role free debt and money advice services have played […]

When the Covid-19 pandemic hit we knew the impact on our clients would be serious, but we were unsure of the different ways in which they would be affected. We also lost our primary route to engaging with our clients, by closing our branches and moving to more remote services. We commissioned Shift to gain […]

Faisel Rahman has been recognised for his outstanding work in shaping, guiding and championing the UK’s social enterprise sector by being awarded an honorary fellowship from Social Enterprise UK, the trade body for the sector. Social enterprises are businesses which trade for a social or environmental purpose, reinvesting the majority of their profits to further […]

Discovering the state of the financial education and exclusion sector in Spain and understanding what can be learnt from the experience in the UK Recently the Fair Money Advice team took a trip to Madrid to collaborate with the Nantik Lum foundation. The trip was primarily an opportunity for FMA to complete the training of […]

Teamspirit, the UK’s leading fully integrated financial services agency, has announced its pro bono client for 2020: problem-debt prevention charity Fair Money Advice. Fair Money Advice is part of the Fair Finance Group and has a mission to free individuals and communities from problem-debt. It offers targeted crisis and preventative services, including free and independent […]

Nearly 13m people across the country would be pushed into financial difficulty with an unexpected bill. Rising living costs and increasing job insecurity for low income families makes this an increasingly challenging issue nationally but also for the 2m, mostly working, people living in poverty in London Fair Finance is a London based social business […]

While microfinance is well known in Africa, Asia and Latin America, over the last 15 years it has grown across Europe, helping to fill the gap for people who remain unbanked and/or excluded from mainstream finance. In 2014 alone over 390,000 businesses were supported and over EUR1.5bn of funding advanced to create nearly 250,000 jobs […]

Fair Money Advice (FMA) has launched a new blog which explores a range of issues including fraud, bankruptcy, the affect of debt on mental help and financial abuse. The blog is also regularly updated with client case studies that accentuate the helpful and supportive nature of FMA advisors and the importance of their work. Click […]

SKILLING UP ON FINANCIAL CAPABILITY WITH FAIR MONEY ADVICE Posted by WAM UK Chapter on May 12, 2012 WAM UK Member, Christine Murray, writes on a full day workshop with Fair Finance’s, Fair Money Advice on financial capability training to prepare for WAM UK Volunteering opportunities.