by Nick Money | Feb 14, 2022 | Events, News & Updates, Past Events
The Swoboda Research Centre was established to produce, facilitate and stimulate action-orientated research that supports the credit union movement. At Swoboda, we believe that research that informing credit unions’ response to risks and opportunities contributes to...
by Nick Money | Dec 8, 2021 | Featured, News & Updates, Past Events
On 24th November, the Swoboda Centre convened credit unions, advice agencies, gambling support charities, regulators and academics from Britain and Ireland to discuss the challenge to credit unions posed by evidence of potentially harmful gambling behaviour in the...
by Nick Money | Oct 7, 2021 | News & Updates, Past Events
Facing Contemporary Challenges This was CFCFE’s first conference since the social distancing rules in Great Britain and Ireland made in-person attendance possible, so alongside seventy online participants there were fifteen attendees gathered in Manchester....
by Nick Money | Mar 31, 2021 | Past Events
Towards New Business Models Our fifth conference, and second online, successfully delivered on our traditions of great presenters with lots of interaction. A summary of the event is in preparation. perhaps the key takeaway from the day was that in planning the...
by Nick Money | Nov 26, 2020 | News & Updates, Past Events
Many thanks to those who attended the credit union social impact webinar on 25th November 2020, and provided so much valuable feedback and discussion. Thanks in particular to Dr Olive McCarthy, for her presentation of the findings in her paper on credit union...
by Nick Money | Oct 9, 2020 | News & Updates, Past Events
Planning the New Normal Our first all-online conference was a great success, with excellent presentations, panel debate and breakout discussions. The programme can be viewed here, and presentations and videos can be downloaded here too – see below. Please note: the...
