Money expert joins our company webinar!

Community Integrated Care were proud to welcome financial journalist, blogger and money expert, Andy Webb, to our charity’s company-wide webinar in April to provide money saving advice directly to our colleagues.

With increases in energy, fuel and consumer goods already sweeping the UK, and with further inflation on the horizon, the event offered helpful guidance and money saving tips for colleagues grappling with rising costs of living.

Regularly featuring across broadcast media, and with columns in both the Metro and Reader’s Digest, Andy provides money saving advice to millions of people across the UK through his website Be Clever with Your Cash, podcast and YouTube channel.

The exclusive webinar was broadcast to our colleagues, from our frontline Support Workers to support function teams, right across the UK. They were invited to submit their questions and concerns ahead of the webinar, for Andy’s advice on specific areas of their life.

Speaking of the session, Andy said, “Helping people save money is one of my biggest passions, so I was really excited to join Community Integrated Care for an exclusive webinar with their employees to share some of my latest money saving tips and tricks. It was great to have the opportunity to offer my support and share guidance on the issues that really matter most to people at the moment, including rising fuel, food and energy costs. A huge thank you to their teams for all of the brilliant questions asked.”

He continued, “I hope that the session provided useful advice and helpful insights that people can not only take forward and apply to their own finances to make some really great savings, but can also share with their friends, family and the people they support too.”

This isn’t the first initiative that our charity has taken to support colleagues amidst increased costs of living, with us recently announcing a £3 million investment in our workforce, seeing our frontline Support Workers receive £10 per hour in England and £11 per hour in Scotland from 1st April.

The uplift, which is the second in six months, sees colleagues paid more than both the Government’s National Living Wage and the voluntary Real Living Wage, as recommended by the Living Wage Foundation.

The move represents a further £3 million investment from our charity, in addition to £5 million already spent improving workforce pay, reward and wellbeing in Autumn 2021, reflecting our commitments to frontline recognition as part of our charity’s new Best Lives Possible five-year strategy.

Mark Adams, Chief Executive Officer, at Community Integrated Care, said, “We were really grateful to have Andy join us for the webinar to share his professional advice and knowledge. This session will have a real impact, as I know many of our colleagues are understandably anxious about what lies ahead and how to navigate through these increasing costs.

The past two years have been extremely challenging, in particular for our sector in which we have seen colleagues make incredible sacrifices to keep the people we support safe. We hope that the initiatives that we have put into place so far go some way to make the lives of our teams easier and show our appreciation and commitment to our workforce.”