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2008 Annual Conference Programme

Day One: Tuesday 16th September
2.00 - 5.00 Registration - Main Reception next to Rootes Hall
5.00 - 7.00 Visit to the historic centre of Coventry
7.00 Dinner
8.00 NACUW AGM
9.00 Meet your colleagues - Bar
Day Two: Wednesday 17th September
7.30 - 9.30 Breakfast
8.30 - 9.30 Registration for Day Delegates
9.30 Opening Remarks - NACUW Chairman
9.45 Speed Dating - "So you think you've got problems - come and share them".
10.30 James Plaskitt MP. Parliamentary Under Secretary of State at the Department of Work and Pensions
11.00 Break
11.15 Workshops A
12.15 Panel Discussion: "Credit unions are no longer masters of their own destiny, but tied to the government agenda"
1.00 Lunch
2.15 Presentation of the CBAccount
Mick Brown NACUW & Martin Hockly Street UK
3.00 Break
3.30 - 5.00 Workshops B
5.00 Fringe Meetings
7.00 Dinner
8.15 Race Night
Day Three: Thursday 18th September
7.30 - 9.30 Breakfast
8.30 - 9.30 Registration for Day Delegates
9.30 Speaker - Jim Reeves, Union of Communication Workers
"Employment Law - what you need to know"
10.15 Break
10.45 Speaker - Susan Cassar Regional Manager - Midlands FSA Financial Capability
"Financial Capability Initiatives"
11.30 Speakers - John Cray & Lindsay Watt DWP
"Growth Fund and other DWP Initiatives"
including the "Champions Initiative"
12.15 Workshops C
1.00 Lunch
2.15 Workshops D
3.00 Winding up
3.30 "Ask Aunty Sue" advice sessions
4.30 Close

Workshop sessions

Workshop Session A

  • Transaction banking 1
    (Action Learning Set Session)
  • Benefit Payments
  • Loan assessment and loan portfolios
  • Money laundering

Workshop Session B

  • Transaction banking 2
    (Action Learning Set Session)
  • Basic bank accounts
  • Growth Fund loan officers
  • Credit control

Workshop Session C


Workshop Session D

  • Money advice 2
    (Action Learning Set Session)
  • FSA current themes
  • Loans assessment and loan portfolios
  • Credit control
Download the Workshop flyer (PDF).

Who attended (or should have)?

  • Credit Union Practitioners

  • Housing Association representatives with an interest in financial help for tenants

  • Local, Regional and National Government Officers with an interest in financial regeneration

  • Charitable foundations and voluntary organisations with an interest in financial inclusion

  • Regional agencies wanting to learn more about how credit unions are a tool for economic renewal

  • Banks interested in the social responsibility potential of Credit Unions