Course Overview

Course Overview
Our Family Budgeting course will help you to understand what a budget is and how you can use one to help manage your money. You will explore how we can change our decisions and behaviour to avoid potentially negative consequences from our actions. These can include having a poor credit rating, getting a court fine or being cut off for not paying bills, and even eviction if you can’t pay your rent or mortgage.

You will become more confident in dealing with your finances in areas such as:
- Understanding your spending and saving habits
- Making and keeping to a budget
- Planning for essential and luxury spending
- Supporting your child’s money skills

What will I learn?

What will I learn?
You will learn:
- Numeracy skills for budgeting including, multiplications, fractions, percentages.
- Skills, techniques, and different tools to use for budgeting.
- Planning and forecasting skills

Your tutor will help you to set your own, individual learning goals that will support you towards achieving your course aims.

How will I attend this course?

How will I attend this course?
This course can be delivered flexibly online with regular online support and feedback meetings with your allocated tutor or face to face at venues in Cambridgeshire.

For more information, please contact:

Telephone: 01353 613013
Email: Cambsals@cambridgeshire.gov.uk

What equipment will I need?

What equipment will I need?
For online courses you will need access to a laptop or PC, camera, microphone and internet connection.

We may be able to support you with loaning this equipment if you do not have it

What will I achieve?

What will I achieve?
Completing this course will give you the opportunity to earn a Cambridgeshire Skills digital badge. Badges are endorsed by City and Guilds and are a great way to demonstrate your newly gained skills and knowledge and provide evidence of completed learning. You will also be ready to progress on to further Maths courses.

What are the entry requirements?

What are the entry requirements?
There are no entry requirements for this course
Other recommended learning
Functional Skills Maths
Functional Skills English
Beat Your Bills
Family Budgeting
Course Code
Q00349
Start Date
01/08/2023
End Date
31/07/2024
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