{"id":1768,"date":"2024-08-27T11:43:44","date_gmt":"2024-08-27T10:43:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sb\/professionallearning\/?p=1768"},"modified":"2024-08-27T11:44:01","modified_gmt":"2024-08-27T10:44:01","slug":"planning-for-retirement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sb\/professionallearning\/2024\/08\/27\/planning-for-retirement\/","title":{"rendered":"Planning for Retirement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>TRAINING \u2013 PLANNING FOR RETIREMENT<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>We are pleased to be able offer places on a short online course focusing on pre-retirement planning run by Affinity Connect, a financial education company. The course will be delivered online &#8211; Monday 2nd September 09.30-12.30 or Thursday 21st November 13.00-15.30<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>This pre-retirement course is perfect for anyone thinking about retirement or who is already at the planning stages.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>During the course you\u2019ll learn how to:<\/p>\n<p>Help plan for the lifestyle changes ahead<\/p>\n<p>Maximise the benefits of your State and workplace pensions<\/p>\n<p>Make the most of your tax-free cash<\/p>\n<p>Understand the income options available from your pension<\/p>\n<p>Achieve your retirement goals<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>If you would like to attend the course please click on the link below or use the QR code on the attached poster and book directly with Affinity Connect.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/affinityconnect.event-registration.co.uk\/events\/scottish-borders-council\/pre-retirement\/2-hour-30-minute-course-online\">Affinity Connect (event-registration.co.uk)<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Managers \u2013 please ensure that colleagues who do not have council email addresses are aware of and can access these sessions. The information is available <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scotborders.gov.uk\/downloads\/download\/1384\/employee_policies_and_procedures\">Employee Policies and Procedures | Scottish Borders Council (scotborders.gov.uk)<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ffffff\">corporate<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TRAINING \u2013 PLANNING FOR RETIREMENT We are pleased to be able offer places on a short online course focusing on pre-retirement planning run by Affinity Connect, a financial education company. The course will be delivered online &#8211; Monday 2nd September 09.30-12.30 or Thursday 21st November 13.00-15.30 &nbsp; This pre-retirement course is perfect for anyone thinking &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1768","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sb\/professionallearning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1768","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sb\/professionallearning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sb\/professionallearning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sb\/professionallearning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sb\/professionallearning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1768"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sb\/professionallearning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1768\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1769,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sb\/professionallearning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1768\/revisions\/1769"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sb\/professionallearning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sb\/professionallearning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sb\/professionallearning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}