Employers and community groups in the Shannonside Northern Sound region are being encouraged to help people plan for their financial future.
The Competition and Consumer Protection Commission (CCPC) is encouraging groups across the region to avail of a new free skills course online to help improve personal financial management.
Money Skills for Life is a free one-hour personal finance seminar that can be tailored for each individual group with over three-thousand participants last year.
Muriel Dolan is the Deputy Director of Communications with the CCPC.
She says that due to the pandemic, it has never been more important for local groups and businesses to be more financially efficient: