Carrick Money Advice Service

27/11/2025

20/11/2025

🦙❤️🥰 Training is progressing so well with Carlos and El Niño!! Today we took them out the field for a wee walk up the road and they were total superstars and took it all in their stride!! So proud of them! I think El Niño likes his sign 🤣 We will keep building on their training over these winter months and they will hopefully be joining the trekking team officially next spring! 🥰❤️🦙

22/10/2025

glow lounge thanks very much for your lovely pamper session this morning

02/07/2025

Please see below leaflets for Financial well-being events being held in Maybole and Girvan

29/05/2025

What a great morning we have had cooking with Kiki. We made a traditional African dish called Jollof - super tasty and great to learn to cook it too. Thanks to Kiki (Saidat) - you were fab!

25/04/2025

07/04/2025

"It is ALL about the Money"
(Blog by Nikki - Manager of our Money Advice Service)

When you don’t have any spare, then life is more difficult. Even working families struggle to meet their daily living needs. There is no room for crisis.

Your washing machine breaks down – what happens – no washing done?

Your cooker breaks down – you live on carry out food?

I have worked with Stepping Stones for Families for nearly 20 years and together with families and partners we tackle some of the barriers to inclusion. In particular financial inclusion.

We help families to break down barriers and to take control of their own destiny and lives.

We support them to seek out positive experiences and opportunities.

We provide advice and information in relation to their money management which allows them to make informed choices for their future.

Our Financial Fairytale books provide an introduction to money management at an early age which gives the children the base for appropriate future money management.

Our FREE impartial and confidential service is well respected in this area and most of our referrals are directly from the people themselves who have heard about us – ‘doon the street’.

Our service is bespoke to meet the needs of the communities it serves, we have a holistic approach to all our service delivery.

We try to ensure that families are happier, healthier and wealthier where we can.

I certainly couldn’t work anywhere else.

I LOVE MY JOB!

07/04/2025

We are GOLD.

We have been awarded GOLD accreditation following our Investors in People assessment.

Paul Devoy, CEO of Investors in People, said: “We’d like to congratulate Stepping Stones for Families. Gold accreditation on We Invest in People is a fantastic effort for any organisation, and places Stepping Stones for Families in fine company with a host of organisations that understand the value of people.”

Only 28% of organisations achieve gold and at the crux of it, it means that every single person is involved in supporting each other and is doing their best to make work better.

Isobel Lawson CEO said “After a challenging 3 years, achieving Gold is testament to the commitment and resilience of our staff teams and our Board of Directors. We are delighted that our hard work has been recognised at this high level”.

28/03/2025

Nikki Pitt is leaving the building for relaxation & fun & frolicks and will not return, ever! Thank you so much to all of you who managed to The Town House today. I'll miss you all and those who couldn't make it. I've been very spoiled and humbled by all of you. No good byes, au revoir 😻🥳

23/03/2025

23/03/2025

Staff were really fortunate to enjoy a well-being day here Little Peru . We were all so well cared and catered for. The benefits of a wee team day out in nature with the lovely Alpacas and cheeky Sheep are overwhelming. We'd recommend to anyone. Contact https://www.littleperu.co.uk/?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR3-XJZg5OocCTthiIvAWYvMKWqy3miS0PkR3dyRrZEpIJ0O-Tjmlh0fpkA_aem_gz_Ynq5F3k6NtHx3KWGnXA