Life Skills
From employability tips, to money skills – you’ll find it all here.
Money Skills With Dineo – 6 Steps to Goal Setting
In these videos, Financial Planner Dineo will guide you through practical money skills that will help you with things like budgeting, understanding your pay slip, keeping your finance details safe online as well as providing you with info on benefits and welfare support. In this week’s video, Dineo will talk us the very first steps …
Money Skills With Dineo – 5 Simple Steps to Create a Successful Budget
This week, Financial Planner Dineo will guide us through budgeting. Budgeting is a way of spending your money sensibly, meaning that you’ll always have enough for what you need. watch the video to find out loads of budgeting tips, including a five step budgeting plan that should make budgeting easy. Resources: 5 Simple Steps to …
Money Skills With Dineo – 10 Simple Ways to Save Money
Saving money can be difficult, but it’s important to be able to save up for things you need and want. This week, Dineo will give you her ten simple steps to saving money. Take a look! Resources: 10 Simple Ways to Save Money Fill in the feedback form here.
Money Skills With Dineo – Borrowing Money
There are some occasions in life where you may feel like you need to borrow money to make a purchase. In this week’s video, Dineo gives some advice on how to borrow money sensibly, as well as which types of loans you may want to avoid. Fill in the feedback form.
Money Skills With Dineo – How to Pay Off Debt: 2 Strategies That Work
Many people get into debt. It’s nothing to be ashamed of, but it is something you want to try and avoid. In this week’s video, Dineo will give you her top tips for getting out of debt. She explains two different methods you can try, as well as showing you some great resources and services …
Money Skills With Dineo – Understanding Income Tax, National Insurance and Personal Allowance
In this week’s video, Dineo will explain what the terms Income Tax, National Insurance and Personal Allowance mean. Dineo will help you understand how these financial terms work and in which situations you might hear them. Take a look 🙂 Resources: Income Tax Rates and Bands Fill in the feedback form here.
Money Skills With Dineo – Understanding your Payslip
Payslips can be confusing. In this week’s video, Dineo will talk you through the things you’ll find on your payslip and what they mean. Resources: Understanding Your Payslip Fill in the feedback form here.
Money Skills With Dineo – Being Self-employed
Not everyone wants to work for someone else. Depending on your skills set and circumstances, you may want to work for yourself. Some examples of common self-employed jobs include, builders, photographers, make-up artists and graphic designers. In this short video, Dineo will take you through some of the money and tax basics you’ll want to …
Money Skills With Dineo – What is a Pension?
In this week’s video, Dineo talks us through what a pension is and how it works. Although, it may seem like something you don’t need to think about until you’re much older, having a pension from a young age can help you live the way you want to when it comes to retirement. Take a …
Money Skills With Dineo – How to Stay Safe Online
Doing things online is often really handy, but how do we keep ourselves and our details safe online? In this week’s video, Dineo goes through some handy tips that are good to bear in mind when using internet services. Take a look! Resources: Common Online Scams Protecting Yourself Online Fill in the feedback form here.
Money Skills With Dineo – Financial Abuse & Exploitation
Financial abuse is a way of controlling the way someone earns, manages or spends their money. It’s important to know the signs and know what to do if you think this is happening to you or someone you know. Dineo takes you through this topic, as well as showing where you can go for help. …
Bike Maintenance Workshop
In this week’s video, local bike shop owner John takes us through some bike safety and maintenance essentials. Take a look 🙂 Fill in the feedback form here.
