Events

The Project is organised around a series of reading groups, research framework seminars, and roundtable workshops. 

The Governing Inclusive Finance Workshop was designed to foster new conversations between academics and multiple stakeholder groups in response to problems of financial exclusion, and possibilities for fostering progressive change. On Wednesday 27 June 2018, a diverse group of credit unions, community banks, alternative lenders, local-, county- and regional- government officials, advisory organizations and academic researchers – each involved or interested in financial provision for historically excluded people, families and communities – joined one another in conversation around three core themes:

  1. Making visible the lived realities of financial exclusion in the UK
  2. Alleviating financial hardship: organizational successes and ongoing governance challenges
  3. Developing a manifesto for financial justice.
Governing Inclusive Finance Workshop Report: Towards a Manifesto for Change is free to download.  By coming together as a group around these themes – discussing them freely and sharing experiences, challenges and ideas – our overarching aim was to begin an ongoing conversation around financial inclusion in the UK with a view to imagining more socially just forms of financial inclusion: i.e. forms of finance that have 'inclusiveness' at their heart.
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