Blackburn Youth Zone Supporters Lunch

We recently attended an event with our patron charity Blackburn Youth Zone, where we received a lunch and a workshop on ‘supporting your employees through the cost-of-living crisis’.

The workshop at the Blackburn Youth Zone Supporters Lunch discussed financial wellbeing and what employers can do in supporting their employees. It opened up a conversation on how this is one of the last taboos to break talking about finances and how best to manage them.

Vishal Jain, the founder CEO of Fair Quid, spoke of a good platform that is available for employees where they take a low interest loan through credit union. This is through the Fair Quid platform and payroll deduct the loan repayments and they also set up a savings at the same time to encourage reducing debt but increasing savings. This is something that Granby is also looking into.

Separate to the event, Granby have spoken with HSBC who are holding Financial wellbeing webinars which will be set up for our employees to attend.