Alongside our direct service delivery, Clean Slate is committed to strengthening the wider sector working to reduce poverty and financial hardship across the UK. We are building a growing network of practitioners, service providers, and policy makers who share a common goal: To improve financial resilience and create lasting change in the communities they serve. Through this network, we share knowledge, develop practice, and support organisations to deliver more effective, joined-up services that respond to the realities of people’s lives. Our sector-facing activity can be found at: quidsinpro.com.
- Quids in! Professional Network
Our Quids in! Professional Network has a membership of over 5,000 practitioners across the UK. Members receive a monthly e-newsletter featuring best practice, practical insights, and a curated news digest, alongside invitations to online events and webinars. The network provides a platform for sharing ideas, highlighting innovation, and supporting continuous learning across the sector. By connecting professionals working in different contexts, we help to build a shared understanding of what works in tackling financial hardship and promoting reslience. - Staff Training
We deliver training to staff within partner organisations, equipping them with both the technical knowledge and practical skills needed to support people in financial crisis. Our training goes beyond theory, focusing on real-world application. We explore how to engage individuals who may be disengaged or disaffected, how to identify opportunities to improve financial wellbeing, and how to respond effectively to the day-to-day pressures of the cost of living. This work strengthens frontline delivery, ensuring that staff feel confident, capable, and supported in their roles.
- Licensing/ Social Franchising
We support organisations to adopt and deliver our proven approaches through a flexible licensing model. This ranges from sharing Quids in! Readers Club content with landlords and local authorities for distribution to tenants and residents, to licensing our Money Health-Check process and digital tools. These enable partners to assess financial wellbeing, identify gaps, and support individuals to take practical steps towards resilience. We also offer licensing of our ELE-Ments traineeship programme, providing a structured pathway for organisations to bring people with lived experience into their service delivery. This approach enables partners to extend their impact while maintaining quality and consistency.
Building Capacity Across Sectors
Our focus is not only on what we deliver directly, but on how we enable others to do the same. By sharing tools, approaches, and learning, we help organisations extend their reach, improve outcomes, and embed financial resilience within their services. This approach allows us to contribute to systemic change, supporting partners to deliver consistent, high-quality support at scale.
Our network approach recognises that no single organisation can address poverty and financial hardship alone. Indeed. the debt advice sector cannot do it alone, the advice sector cannot do it alone, and not even the community development sector can do it alone. Health services, education, criminal justice, family services are not only stakeholders. Clean Slate aims to work with them too, connecting people, sharing learning, and enabling others to deliver effective support. Togeher, we will all be better equipped to respond to immediate needs of low income households struggling with the cost of living, while building their long-term resilience.
Our network approach recognises that no single organisation can address poverty and financial hardship alone. Indeed. the debt advice sector cannot do it alone, the advice sector cannot do it alone, and not even the community development sector can do it alone. Health services, education, criminal justice, family services are not only stakeholders. Clean Slate aims to work with them too, connecting people, sharing learning, and enabling others to deliver effective support. Togeher, we will all be better equipped to respond to immediate needs of low income households struggling with the cost of living, while building their long-term resilience.
