Voluntary Action LeicesterShire (VAL) is a delivery partner within the Leicestershire County Council Multiply Programme. A specific project to help local residents to improve and develop their numeracy skills.
Numeracy skills is more than having a maths qualification, it is the ability to understand and use maths every day, to start to understand your own finances, setting and keeping to a budget, make sense of data or statistics that’s shared by the news/ social media and companies, and it can open doors to new opportunities for employment.
Over the last few years, we have been supporting local residents in Leicestershire to build their confidence with numbers and numeracy skills, but this project is coming to an end on 31March 2025.
We are carrying out a final push for participants to access some of our online training and resources. Our main sessions are:
Introduction to Using Excel to Manage Numbers
This session focuses on:
- Identifying some key functions of Microsoft Excel
- Explaining how to use Microsoft Excel to create spreadsheet templates
- Explaining some ways to manage data entered into Excel
- Explaining how to use Excel to create some basic calculations to manipulate data
Managing Financial Challenges
This session focuses on:
- Looking at how to set a finance budget
- Identifying income and spend and balance this against a specified budget
- Identifying ways to reduce spending against a set budget
- Considering the impact of making changes to your spending.
For more information on how you can get involved or how to join the project email us on: multiply@valonline.org.uk