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 […]
Interviewing Oakam’s founder on digital transformation and microfinance
Earlier this year Faisel Rahman, Founder and CEO of Fair Finance, sat down to interview Frederick Nze, Founder and CEO of Oakam on their journey from a branch-based lender to a mobile first service. The talk was hosted by Fair4AllFinance as part of the ThinkIn program on sharing insights and learning for leaders providing financial […]
Launching our Online Advice Tool and Benefits Calculator
We know that the Covid pandemic has hit the financial resilience of our clients hard (see our work here). We know as well that this picture is reflected across the country the Money Advice & Pension Service estimating that the need for debt advice will increase by over 1 million during year, and FCA noting […]
Fair Money Advice MD, Muna Yassin awarded MBE for charitable Financial Services during Covid
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 […]
Impact of Covid19 on Financial Vulnerability
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 […]
Black Lives Matter
The recent death of George Floyd and so many other racially motivated lethal injustices in the past remind us that so much more needs to be done to tackle the scourge of racism – here in the UK and around the world. We stand in solidarity with our brothers and sisters in the Black community […]
Fair Finance CEO Faisel Rahman receives honorary fellowship from Social Enterprise UK for his contribution to supporting the social enterprise movement
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 […]
Fair Money Advice Goes Global!
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 announces 2020 pro bono client, Fair Money Advice
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 […]
Fair Finance shortlisted for the Citi Micro-entrepreneurship Awards 2020
The Citi Microentrepreneurship Awards are the annual celebration of Britain’s microentrepreneurs who have accessed “responsible” business finance. The awards, which launched in 2005, (and in 2013 in the UK) were established by the Citi Foundation to recognise best-in-class microentrepreneurs and the responsible finance sector. The awards are aligned with the UN Sustainable Development Goals, celebrating […]