Lighthouse secures affinity deal with Social Workers Union

Initially on an 18-month contract

Victoria McKeever
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National adviser Lighthouse has agreed an affinity partnership with trade union The Social Workers Union, to be its preferred financial adviser for an initial 18-month period.

Lighthouse will provide members of the union with advice on savings, investments, pensions, protection and mortgages. The trade union is dedicated to social work professionals and currently has 12,000 members. Lighthouse already has a total of 19 affinity partnerships in place, representing more than six million members, including employee organisations such as UNISON, Unite, BA Clubs, Prospect, The Fire Brigades Union and the Royal College of Nursing. Earlier this month Lighthouse renewed its contract with Prospect, the union for engineers, scientists and managers, for a further year...

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