Financial Inclusion Online Information Project
We are working on a new project to bring together sources of online information about financial inclusion. When we have collected and vetted potential sites we will be hosting links and training our staff and volunteers to help library users access them.
This is part of our commitment to enable local people to take advantage of all the internet has to offer and to develop links with both national and local organisations that help people with money matters. Its part of a pilot study that will inform how all libraries offer information about various critical issues.
But first - What does financial inclusion mean?
The Brighton & Hove Advice Partnership of voluntary and community groups defines it as:-
“Having enough resources to meet basic needs adequately and to be able to make choices over a prolonged period to maintain physical and mental well-being and participate in community/society”.
Toynbee Hall (a charity that works to eradicate poverty and increase financial inclusion) describes it thus:-
“Financial inclusion is a complex and multi-dimensional process. It involves [resolving] the lack or denial of financial resources, goods and services, and the inability to participate in the mainstream financial services market, available to the majority of people in society. It affects both the quality of life of individuals and the equity and cohesion of society as a whole”.
We would like to know what financial inclusion means to you – Join the debate about financial inclusion on twitter.com/BHLibraries and include the hashtag #financialinclusion.
If you have ideas of online resources that might be helpful to people with money matters, please let me know - email libraries@brighton-hove.gov.uk with financial inclusion in the subject line.
If you are interested in getting help to use the internet in your local library, follow the links here:-
Free internet lesson for all adults at Jubilee Library.
Free internet lesson for over 50s
Free internet help and assistance in community libraries
This work is in partnership with The Society of Chief Librarians
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