Offer money coaching through your church

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Serve your community with money coaching, and help them experience the freedom that comes from feeling in control of their finances. 

What is money coaching?

Through money coaching, you can help your community build the knowledge, skills and confidence to improve their financial wellbeing.

CAP’s money coaching toolkit features 100 minutes of expert teaching across 23 bitesize videos, alongside top quality print resources and brilliant online budgeting tools.

Money coaching typically takes place over three or four group sessions facilitated by a trained Money Coach within your church community. It’s designed to run alongside any other ministries or services you offer in your church such as small groups or food banks. It can also be offered one to one.

It’s a simple, low cost way to serve your community and help them experience the freedom that comes from feeling in control of their finances.

In 2023:

3,638
people received money coaching through their local church 
671 
active money coaching churches at the end of December 2023 
Hand holding heart
61 
new churches partnered with CAP to deliver money coaching 
Sue describes how her life was transformed after attending a money coaching group at a local church, and how life become even fuller when she herself trained as a coach and began to deliver money coaching.

[Melancholy music]

Sue: Twenty years ago, when my marriage broke down, my life was turned upside down and I really didn’t know where I was going to go or what I was going to do.I couldn’t afford new clothes. I could barely afford the food. There were no food banks at the time, so that’s why everything had to go on my credit card and putting food on your credit card is really bad news.

[Upbeat music]

I became a Christian on November 2003 and started going to church regularly, and that made a huge difference. And the church then started doing money coaching, and I think I was one of the first people to actually join in with that. That made a huge difference to the way that I learned to budget.

I had a serious credit card debt then, and because of their help I managed to pay that credit card debt off in ten months. Certainly, after I’d done money coaching, I was well aware that I had a sense of freedom, that I could do other things that I hadn’t been able to do before. That feeling of hope is so, so good. It really is.

[Background chatting]

The lady running that asked me if I would become the lead coach. And for three days I remember being really quite traumatised by it because I didn’t think I’d be good enough. I didn’t think I knew enough, but as soon as I said yes and was doing what I think God wanted me to do, all of my fears and worries just went away, like that and I thought, Yes, I can do this.’

When I did the training for the money coaching, I became aware that it was a really, really good course. Seeing it from the other side, being a coach and not being a participant, really brought it home to me how much it helped me, but then how I could help other people and I thought it was such a worthwhile thing to do.

You get people in their early twenties, middle aged, older people, retired people — there’s a really big cross-section. So it’s not just one group that is vulnerable. It actually could apply to lots and lots of different people and lots and lots of different groups.

[Enthusiastic Hooray, I agree with you!’, clip taken from money coaching session]

Now what we see is that people come, but then they come back to church for some of the other events that we have, and it’s so lovely to see them. One guy phoned me up one day and said would I think about joining the prison and running the course inside there. And again, that was another one. I thought, Prison, can I do that?’ But then I remembered the saying in the Bible about Jesus saying, You gave me something to drink.’ You visited me when I was sick and you visited me in prison.’ And I thought Prison.’ That’s the only one that I’ve never done.’

It was scary. The first time, it’s scary but I enjoyed it and they seemed to get a lot out of it because we are showing them skills that they can use once they get out of prison. The prisoners asked us how CAP could actually run these courses, and I said, well, we’re Life Changers and we pay money every month to CAP to help run these.’ And they were absolutely amazed.

[Laughing]

My life journey has been made so much easier by God and also having done the CAP money coaching. Those two things together have saved me basically, they really have. And I feel more contented, I’m not so anxious, very rarely am I anxious now, and I just know that everything is going to be okay.

What’s included?

Through a series of videos, group discussions and activities, your community will receive up-to-date, expert advice on different topics that will help them navigate their day-to-day finances. 

Money coaching topics include:

  • How to build and balance a household budget

  • How to structure finances using a system proven to work 

  • Ways to save more and get the most out of spare cash

  • How to use credit wisely and navigate unmanageable debt

  • Exploring the difference between essential and optional expenses and finding ways to realistically cut costs

  • Unlimited access to a mobile-friendly budget worksheet

We’ll provide tools and resources to help you publicise your course and ongoing training and support.

Who is money coaching for?

We’ve designed money coaching to be suitable for a wide range of incomes and personal situations. The resources contain lots of different examples, allowing you to tailor the discussions and activities appropriately.

Who can be a Money Coach?

We don’t expect you to have a wealth of financial knowledge or any formal qualifications, you’ll just need to be comfortable leading a group and facilitating discussion on the topic of money management. 

With just the few hours’ training that we provide, you’ll be equipped with the skills and knowledge you need to be a Money Coach.

Pricing

Pay as you go

  • £55 per Money Coach*

Subscription

  • £15 a month (for up to three Money Coaches and £75 worth of printable publicity material and resources every year, with no upfront training costs)

*Discounts may apply for existing partner churches.

How do I sign up to offer money coaching through my church?

Good question! We want this process to be as easy as possible for you and your church.

Once you submit your initial enquiry, you’ll receive step-by-step instructions on how to sign up, including your church leaders agreeing to partner with us, attending training, setting up payments and getting all the resources you need to help your community get back in control of their finances.

Either – you get to choose! Our new online training platform means you control when and where you train. You may want to go through everything in a day, or choose to train over a few evenings.

If you need an excuse to break away from your usual workplace or escape home distractions, then our in-person training events may suit you better. There’s the added bonus of being able to ask plenty of questions as you go, and connecting with other Money Coaches in-training in your area.

You’ll select your training preference further down the sign-up process, so you don’t need to decide right now! (Please note, you’ll only be able to book on to these once you’ve completed all initial stages of the sign-up process).

Upcoming in-person training events 2024:

  • Saturday 28 September — North East: Teesside
  • Saturday 23 November — South East: Bexhill
  • Saturday 30 November – Cambridge
Money coaching participants from our video series, who you'll become familiar with as part of our money coaching resources.

Interested in offering money coaching at your church?

Enquire and start your money coaching journey today.

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