Queenslanders Credit Union conducts a range of FREE Life Learning Seminars for our members and the general public. These seminars are between 30 to 60 minutes duration and are conducted all over the greater Brisbane region. Please see below for more information on each seminar.

Queenslanders conduct these seminars at the following locations:

Brisbane City Council Libraries – For seminar times and locations Click Here to visit the Brisbane City Council website or alternatively view the current list of seminars on the PDF file below. To book your place at one of these seminars call the Brisbane City Council on (07) 3403 6328.

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Pine Rivers Council Libraries – For seminar times and locations Click Here to visit the Pine Rivers Council website. Kid’s Budgeting seminars are being held on 16th December & 13th January in conjunction with “Summer Fun at Pathways” program at North Lakes. Bookings are essential with further sessions available in 2005.To book your place at one of these seminars call the Pine Rivers Council on (07) 3480 9910.

Queenslanders’ Brisbane Office – to find out the details and dates for the next seminar conducted in our offices at 96 Albert Street Brisbane, call us on (07) 3218 7200 or email us at [email protected] .

Your workplace or social group meetings – with prior arrangements, we will conduct seminars at your workplace or social group meetings, just call us on (07) 3218 7200 or email at [email protected] for more information.

Our most popular seminar to date with over 5,000 attendees in the past 3 years.

A FREE 60-minute seminar where you will learn how to implement a successful personal budget, reduce personal debt, reach financial goals, control credit cards and save money on transaction fees. You’ll also receive an easy-to-understand workbook to take home, practice what you have learned in the seminar and put your new budget intoaction!

Budgeting is not about restricting fun in life – it is about putting fun back in your life by getting your financial life back on track and enabling you to save money for all the fun things you and your family want to do.

Queenslanders began to conduct budgeting seminars following some disturbing research into Australian household budgets. The Research showed that less than 5% of Australian households budget effectively; another 20% make an attempt but are unsuccessful, the balance of approximately 75% make no attempt to budget at all.

Queenslanders has now been successfully conducting Personal & Family Budgeting Seminars for State Public Sector employees, Centrelink, City Councils, private sector enterprises and their families and friends the past two years. 5,000 people have attended one of the almost 500 seminars conducted during that time. The feedback from the attendees at our seminars has been overwhelming. Some of the feedback we have received from attendees:

• The seminars are comprehensive and take the fear and mystery out of budgeting.
• The format of the seminars is easy to understand and follow.
• Attendees feel confident that they can finally budget effectively for the first time in their lives.
• The free personal budgeting workbook makes calculation and tracking of budgets very easy.
• Attendees were surprised that the seminars were not simply a guise for selling Queenslanders Credit Union products.

This seminar is specifically tailored for kids to help them with their own budgets and to save money for the fun things they want to buy and their own financial goals. They will be taken through a Kid’s Budgeting Worksheet and given the skills to enable them to organise their finances so they can buy what they want when they want; do all the fun things their friends are doing and not have to rely on parents for money.

Australians can except to be retired for a long time, often up to 30 years, that’s nearly as long as a person’s working career. Most Australians have worked hard all their lives to build up a healthy retirement nest-egg but putting plans in place to make that money last for their retirement can be daunting and very frightening task.

So where do you go for advice to ensure your superannuation and investments are secure and also work hard for you and fund your retirement years?

Our FREE “Pre-Retirement Seminar” is aimed at people nearing retirement – 50 to 60 years of age – although many younger people are now attending, realising the benefits of planning their retirement earlier in life. The number of attendees at these seminars is kept to a minimum so that the subjects discussed can be individualised to the audience on the night. This format also creates a relaxed atmosphere where you have an opportunity to talk one on one with a qualified Financial Planner.

These seminars are obligation free, in fact, we persuade people who are already dealing with a financial planner to take this opportunity to get a FREE second opinion to test the advice you have already been given and compare investment strategies.

If you haven’t yet embarked on your retirement planning, this seminar will definitely steer you in the right direction.

Credit Management Seminar

Have you ever wanted to know?

• What is Good Debt and what is Bad Debt
• The facts about equity borrowing
• Why loan applications are declined
• How to manage credit cards
• Why & when to consolidate debts.

The information given at this FREE seminar could possibly save you hundreds of dollars in bank fees per year. You’ll learn how to operate your accounts without paying unnecessary fees.

What is Motor Vehicle Third Party Property Insurance?

Third party property is not part of your registration costs. Your car may only be worth $3,000 but what would do you do if you damage a vehicle worth $10,000 or more?

Why do I need Contents Insurance?

In particular many renters do not have insurance to cover their assets such as clothes, furniture, jewellery, CDs, DVDs and electronic games. As we all know these items could cost thousands of dollars to replace.

The information given at this FREE seminar could possibly save you hundreds of dollars in the event of a loss, due to an accident, break and enter or wilful damage to your property. You’ll gain the knowledge to make decisions about which cover best suits your needs and to the advantages of having adequate insurance cover.