If you want a low-commitment introduction to personal finance before the fall term starts, there is a Saturday-morning option in the city’s west end. Building Savings and Wealth, organised by Jimmy Lau, runs on Saturday, August 15 from 10:30 a.m. to 12 p.m. at 1701 Woodward Drive, Suite 106.
What the session covers
The workshop is billed as a general-audience session on growing savings and building wealth over the long run, with speakers walking through financial-literacy basics and practical habits. The organiser pitches it at both first-timers and people who already invest, so expect fundamentals rather than deep technical content — useful if you have never put a savings plan on paper, less so if you are already deep into portfolio theory.
Agenda and timing
Registration opens the morning at 10:30 a.m. and the workshop itself runs from 11 a.m. to 12 p.m. That makes the teaching block about an hour, with the first half hour reserved for sign-in — so showing up at 11 sharp means you will not miss content, but you also will not get much time to talk to the organisers.
The logistics
- When: Saturday, August 15, 10:30 a.m. – 12 p.m.
- Where: 1701 Woodward Drive, Suite 106, Ottawa, ON K2C 0R4
- Format: in person, roughly 90 minutes end to end
- Getting there: free parking on site
- Host: Jimmy Lau
Is it worth your Saturday?
Community finance workshops vary a lot in quality, and sessions run by individual hosts sometimes double as an introduction to a financial-services practice. Go with your questions ready, take notes on anything you can verify yourself later, and treat any product recommendation as a starting point for your own research rather than advice. For an hour on a Saturday morning, the upside is a plain-language framework for saving that most students never get taught.
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