The IMA is always striving to make training more accessible, including seeking sponsors to fund free or reduced cost training.
Currently the following free or reduced cost training opportunities are available:
- Free training for MaPS-funded advisers
- Free in-house training for MaPS-funded advisers
- IMA-subsidised training places for non-MaPS-funded IMA members
- Free training for Non-Practising and Trainee members
See below for full details.
Free training for MaPS-funded advisers: book now to avoid disappointment
We are pleased to offer free training, funded by the Money Advice Trust, for advisers working in Money and Pensions Service (formerly Money Advice Service / Single Financial Guidance Body) Face-to-Face Debt Advice Projects.
- Who is eligible?
Advisers giving money advice in organisations in England and Wales funded by MaPS as part of the Face to Face Debt Advice Project.
Places are available for new bookings on a first come, first served basis. Currently, we are accepting free bookings for the courses listed below for dates until the end of March 2020.
- How do I book the free training?
Just complete the booking form as normal and tick the box indicating ‘MaPS-funded free places’.
We will ask you for permission to share details about your booking with the funders, which is essential for us to obtain the funding. If you don’t give us your permission, you will not be booked onto the free training course.
- Which courses can I book onto?
Currently, MaPS-funded advisers can book a free place on one of the following courses on dates until the end of March 2020:
- Bankruptcy: the tricky bits
- Challenging interest and charges
- Charging orders
- Coping with council tax
- DRO law and theory
- FCA compliance and quality of advice
- High cost credit
- High court enforcement
- Money advice legal update
- Preparing cases for court
- Rent possession proceedings: defences and tactics
- Square peg debts
- Suicide and debt
- Supervising money advice
- Training for trainers
- Understanding and managing stress at work
- Unfair relationships under the CCA 1974
- Universal credit: the tricky bits
- Using the FCA handbook
- Vulnerability, mental health and debt
- Working with deficit budgets
Book now to avoid disappointment: Book an IMA training course
Free training places are limited and only for MaPS-funded advisers. Places will be allocated on a first-come, first-served basis, with only one place per adviser allowed.
Please note that funding has now been exhausted for MaPS-funded advisers based in Wales.
Free in-house training for MaPS-funded advisers
We are pleased to offer free in-house training, funded by the Money and Pension Service, for advisers working in MaPS (formerly Money Advice Service) Face-to-Face Debt Advice Projects. Funding is available for the following courses:
- Bankruptcy: the tricky bits
- Challenging interest and charges
- Charging orders
- Coping with council tax
- DRO law and theory
- FCA compliance and quality of advice
- High cost credit
- High court enforcement
- Money advice legal update
- Preparing cases for court
- Rent possession proceedings: defences and tactics
- Square peg debts
- Suicide and debt
- Supervising money advice
- Training for trainers
- Understanding and managing stress at work
- Unfair relationships under the CCA 1974
- Universal credit: the tricky bits
- Using the FCA handbook
- Vulnerability, mental health and debt
- Working with deficit budgets
You will need to provide the training space, equipment and any refreshments.
To qualify for the funding, an in-house course must be attended by at least six MaPS-funded advisers, and must take place by the end of June 2020.
To express an interest in a free in-house training course, please e-mail training@i-m-a.org.uk. We will respond to your enquiry within 10 working days.
IMA-subsidised training places for non-MaPS-funded IMA members: book now to avoid disappointment
We’re delighted to announce that the IMA Trustee Board has set aside an amount from the IMA’s financial reserves to subsidise the cost of training to IMA members. IMA members who book onto one of the eligible one-day courses will receive a £50 discount from the standard fee:
This funding support is only available to IMA members who are not eligible for a free training place as a MaPS-funded adviser. It applies to new bookings made from 12 March 2019, for IMA training courses running on dates until the end of September 2020.
If you are a MaPS-funded adviser, please see the separate announcement above about free training available.
Subsidised places are extremely limited and only for non-MaPS-funded IMA members. Places will be allocated on a first-come, first-served basis, with only one place per adviser allowed.
Book now to avoid disappointment: Book an IMA training course
Free training for Non-Practising and Trainee members
If you are an IMA member in the Non-Practising or Trainee categories and there is a course that you want to attend, call the IMA office in the morning no more than two working days prior to the course date. If there is an unallocated place available, you can book it free of charge.
We are unable to guarantee that free places will be available on a particular course; if it is very important that you attend, we advise you to book a chargeable place using the normal booking process.
Past funding
In the past we’ve received also generous sponsorship from:
- Auriga
- Grant Thornton
- Money Advice Service
- Money Saving Expert Charity
- Nationwide
- Severn Trent Trust Fund
If your organisation can help subsidise training for advisers, please contact us.