North Wales Housing

The North Wales Financial Inclusion Partnership has scooped the top award at the MoneyActionNet Awards 2011, an annual event which celebrates projects that help social housing tenants to improve their money management.

North Wales Housing, Cartrefi Conwy, Clwyd Alyn HA, Wales and West HA, Cymdeithas Tai Clwyd and Cymdeithas Tai Eryri., together make up the partnership, and have worked collaboratively to produce the, ‘My Home…making every penny count’ DVD.

From a huge number of initial entries, the project was initially shortlisted to 25 and the winning project announced.

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The DVD was developed to offer an innovative and user friendly approach to tackling the day to day financial issues that a tenant may run into when first starting a tenancy with a social landlord.  The film explores the ‘good’ and ‘bad’ approach to money handling and highlights the dangers of adopting a ‘careless’ attitude towards household finances.

Offering practical ideas as to where savings can be made and debt avoided, the DVD highlights the consequences of borrowing from illegal loan sharks and other sources of high cost borrowing. The DVD is now available to all new housing association residents in North Wales.

TAPE Community, Music and Film Ltd of Colwyn Bay supported the partnership throughout the delivery of the project. With extensive experience working with different community groups, TAPE offered expert guidance in every aspect of the film making process. The project was further supported by the Wales Co-Operative Centre’s Financial Inclusion Champion.

Les Cooper of Wales and West of the North Wales Financial Inclusion Partnership said:

This is an incredible award win. The DVD has been so well received by so many different groups of people and most importantly, has been viewed and taken on board by so many of our tenants.

“We were up against some stiff competition on a national scale and to see this initiative celebrated in this way is a fantastic achievement for all those involved.”