📅 Event Date: Sunday, August 30, 2026, 2:00–4:00 p.m.
Centerpointe Financial Centre is running a free two-hour Financial Planning & Business Workshop on Sunday, August 30 at its Meadowlands Drive office, as part of its ongoing Learning to Earning series. The session mixes personal money management with the basics of starting a business, and it is pitched at people new to both — so it suits a student who wants practical budgeting and planning skills without a finance background. It is free, which makes it one of the lower-commitment ways to spend an afternoon building the money side of your CV.
Event details
- Organizer: Centerpointe Financial Centre
- Date: Sunday, August 30, 2026
- Time: 2:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.
- Venue: 1343 Meadowlands Drive East, Ottawa, ON
- Cost: Free
- Format: In person, roughly two hours
- Register: Eventbrite listing
Why it’s worth going
The workshop is built around practical tips and hands-on activities rather than a lecture, covering how to manage your own finances more effectively alongside the first steps of getting a business idea moving. Because it is aimed at both newcomers and people wanting to sharpen an existing skill set, you are not expected to arrive with any particular background. For an accounting or finance student, the value is less in the technical content and more in seeing how planning concepts get explained to a general audience — useful practice if you are heading towards advisory or client-facing work.
Going in prepared
Register through Eventbrite in advance, since it is a small in-person session and free tickets on these listings tend to go. Bring something to take notes on and, if you have a business idea you are chewing on, bring the specifics — the hands-on portions are more useful with a real example in front of you. Centerpointe Financial Centre has been hosting on Eventbrite for two years across 13 events, so this is an established series rather than a one-off.
Full details and free registration are on the Eventbrite listing.
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