Projects

Purpose
RFA has launched a match saving programme in Belgium, aimed at people in precarious situations, to encourage saving behaviours by offering a financial bonus on the capital saved by participant. The mains objectives are 1/ to create 10 to 15 savings groups involving 150 people and to succeed in creating a "savings culture" and 2/ to communicate around this project to obtain more funding to continue developing the programme in the future.

Purpose
The program aimed to prove that some of the poorest people in Hungary, often living in rural communities, could meet long-term asset building goals. The program also set out to develop the financial skills of the Roma community to empower and make them less vulnerable to exploitative money lenders and their vicious financial circles.

Moreover, the program hoped that its participants could improve their financial situation and quality of life by:

Purpose
"Ethica" is a specially designed board game created by the Réseau Financement Alternatif (RFA) with the help of the Groupe One association. Its aim is to increase financial literacy and awareness of ethical financial products, with a focus on different types of users. The target audience are people whose incomplete knowledge makes them more vulnerable to current financial mechanisms: young people aged 15 to 25 and underprivileged groups. The project also has target intermediaries - the trainers - who work with these groups. 

Runnymede coordinates ASSETnet (Asset & Ethnicity Network), a network focusing on ethnicity and asset building policies in Europe. ASSETnet aims to increase awareness and interest in asset-building policies generally and to engage ethnic minority and migrant groups in this work. ASSETnet has a online social network space to support learning and information sharing.