Why people feel cut off from support, and what it takes to rebuild trust, connection and control.
As part of Clean Slate’s 20th birthday celebrations, Project Reconnect brought together practitioners, policy makers, funders and community organisations for a timely conversation about trust, belonging and opportunity.
For two decades, Clean Slate has worked alongside people facing financial hardship. Again and again, we have seen that when people gain control over their money, they often regain something much bigger: confidence, choice, hope and a sense that their future is theirs to shape.
But many people still feel unheard, overlooked or cut off from the support available to them.
This webinar explores why that happens, what organisations can learn from it, and how we can build services that people genuinely feel are there for them.
Session summary
Jeff Mitchell and Emmie Jenkins Hill discuss the thinking behind Clean Slate’s Money First approach, and how immediate financial stability can create the breathing space people need to reconnect with support and opportunity.
Amaya Agdomar shares powerful reflections on lived experience and her journey into supporting others through Clean Slate. Charlotte Dicks, Head of Grant Programmes at Longleigh, speaks about the impact of long-term, flexible partnership working through Longleigh Foundation.
Paul McNamee, award-winning journalist, broadcaster and former Editorial Director of Big Issue Group, places the discussion in a wider context, reflecting on ethical lending, poverty, insecurity and bigger structural ideas such as Universal Basic Income.