UK Retirement Courses

Making the most of retirement

Retirement - a 25-30 year project!

It’s worth spending 1 day to make the most of the next 10,000!

Planning for retirement is even more important today than it has ever been. Retirees are much healthier, much more active and can expect to live much longer – a whole new phase of life and opportunity is opening up. 

Unlike other phases of life, this time there are far fewer constraints – for most of our lives we are constrained by the demands of school, career and maybe children. For the first time we are faced with a period of maybe 25-30 years when we essentially write our own ‘job description’. That requires careful thought and planning, to avoid the pitfalls and to ensure we make the most of it and enjoy a balanced retirement. 

Our standard retirement courses cover all the key lifestyle aspects of retirement from health and leisure to finance and relationships. These retirement courses have been developed, based on experience, to provide a well-rounded event within 1 day

In particular, the courses are founded on establishing at the outset the feelings of the participants about change, understanding how their lives will change, recognising the issues associated with change and making change work for them.

The 10 modules of the retirement courses are fully supported by handouts plus details of where to obtain further information.

The retirement courses can be attended with or without partners, but if budget allows we strongly recommend that partners should be invited, as experience has shown us that there are extra benefits when they attend.

To receive a full specification of the retirement courses please use the enquiry link in the right hand panel and we will email one to you.

Finance versus Lifestyle

Our courses cover the Financial aspects of retirement but this is just one of 10 modules covering all the important lifestyle aspects of retirement. It is a well balanced programme based on experience.

Beware - although finance is important many retirement course providers put far too much emphasis on the financial side of retirement. This is particularly true of Financial Advisers who have a vested interest in introducing such topics. However many independent providers also focus far too much on the financial side of retirement at the expense of the lifestyle aspects. This is not always evident in a simple list of retirement course topics because most will include the same headline topics but only cover the lifestyle aspects at a very cursory level.

Don't forget it's about making the most of every aspect of retirement:

Retirement is a 25-30 year project!

It’s worth spending 1 day to make the most of the next 10,000!

Just a few of the effusive comments we receive from retirement course participants

• ‘Tremendous value to me’.
  ‘Most useful course I have attended in 32 years’……

• ‘Made me ask questions I didn’t expect to ask’

• ‘Thought the cards were brilliant’.

• ‘Opened up my mind to positives’

• ‘Good insight into pitfalls’.

• ‘Reassured me’.

• ‘A helpful structure to underpin the decisions I need to make’.

• ‘Helped us think together’. ‘Analysis tools very useful for my partner’

• ‘Enjoyed it immensely’.