Financial Coaching

We are working in partnership with Navigate, an experienced charity, to provide access to financial coaching and support colleagues who are experiencing financial emergencies.

Navigate are able to offer tools, knowledge, support and advocacy to help colleagues to navigate financial difficulties and achieve stability in the longer term.

This support is strictly confidential and Oxford Brookes University will hold no information relating to individual members of staff.

Please contact Jessica McGinn via staff-financialcoaching@brookes.ac.uk if you have any queries.

Feedback

This partnership has already received glowing feedback from staff including Mary, who has asked us to share a short video of her experience.

“My Financial Coach from Navigate, Jo, is expert, empathetic and pragmatic. Even during our initial meeting I started to feel a bit freer from my barrage of unpayable bills.”

FAQs

Who are Navigate Charity and how can they help me?

Navigate are a registered charity who provide accessible, impartial, and confidential and money and debt advice.

The team offer individually tailored support that provides the skills and knowledge required to enable you to overcome the cost of living crisis and financial emergencies.

The charity will also act as advocate as required and for example, will speak to mortgage lenders or creditors on your behalf.

Please watch the short video that details the help on offer.

How can Navigate and financial coaching help me?

Seeking support to overcome financial challenges can be overwhelming. Navigate understand this and therefore offer empathetic, practical and solutions focused support to help you with:

Managing the increase in cost of living for example food, gas and electric, and rent/mortgage payments.
Reviewing finances and preparing a flexible budget based on available income to meet day to day costs.
Identifying further financial revenue and progressing applications e.g for benefits.
Reducing debt and repaying creditors.
Resolving a financial emergency.
Managing wellbeing whilst experiencing money worries.

Will Oxford Brookes be informed of my discussions with Navigate and the support provided?

No.

Please note that referral requests and any associated information will be kept in the strictest confidence by Navigate Charity.

Our role in this partnership is to ensure that those who need this support are able to access and to fund provision.

Is there any other support available to help me?

Staff Assistance Fund - a one off payment to support colleagues experiencing financial hardship.
Employee Assistance Programme - offer financial wellbeing support.
Support with the Cost of Living - provide further resources created by external organisations to support a range of financial circumstances.