Course Overview:
Budgeting for Success is a practical and supportive single session course designed to help learners understand the financial transition into work. Building on budgeting skills from previous courses, this session empowers participants to explore the benefits of employment, not just financially, but also for wellbeing, while gaining confidence in managing changes to income and benefits.
The course will Simplify Universal Credit in the context of work, introduce basic payslip literacy, and explain how income is supported through in-work benefits. Learners will also gain clarity on the documentation required to prove their right to work in the UK, helping to remove barriers to employment.
Course Aim:
- To support learners to identify the benefits of being in work.
- To develop an understanding of how Universal Credit continues move into employment.
- To apply numeracy skills to real-life budgeting and payslip interpretation.
- To improve knowledge of Right to Work documentation requirements
Session Content Includes:
- Personal reflection: goals, challenges and feelings about moving into work
- Interactive quiz: the mental, social and financial benefits of employment
- Overview and discussion of Universal Credit as an in-work benefit
- Worked budgeting examples: how wages affect Universal Credit payments
- Quiz and discussion: Right to Work documentation and where to get it
- Understanding payslips: deductions, National Insurance, gross and net pay
- Practical numeracy: calculating take-home pay and changes to income
Eligibility
Courses are no cost to learners who meet our eligibility criteria. Learners must be aged 19+ years, have a Wiltshire postcode, and meet residency requirements. Learners must also be able to tick one of the following criteria:
- individual income less than £25,750 a year;
- in receipt of benefits (other than child benefit);
- be a care leaver, foster carer or carer; be a military family or ex-armed forces personnel;
- have refugee or asylum seeker status; have a learning difficulty or disability;
- be looking to work, now or in the future.
If you do not feel you fit within the criteria, we may still be able to help. Please get in touch with us to discuss this further.
Click the booking form link to book your place. We’ll then contact you to confirm your booking. Alternatively, we’re happy to complete the form with you over the phone.
To ask a question or find out more you can:
- Email us at familyandcommunitylearning@wiltshire.gov.uk
- Call us on 01225 770 478
We will look forward to hearing from you.