PUBLISHED: 09:02 13 March 2019 | UPDATED: 09:03 13 March 2019 Emma Bartholomew Ripon Ray: Picture: Rukya Khan Debt advisor and radio talk show host Ripon Ray tells Emma Bartholomew how he’s seeing more and more people who are unable to just pay the basic bills Ripon Ray: Picture: Nick De Marco Self-confessed “arty-farty creative” Ripon Ray originally set out to be a fashionista in life, when he “found his calling” and changed track to become an activist. He’d been studying at the London School of Fashion, but going on an anti-fascist protest “triggered a couple of things”. “I dumped my studies and went to Kingsley College where I was doing full-on activism, and organising protest marches,” he told the Gazette . “I loved it but I got kicked out of there because I was too much of an activist and I wasn’t focusing on my studies.” He knuckled under, bagged a history degree and started out in the charity sector as a housing advi...
Ripon Ray has worked in the debt advice sector for over 14 years. His work includes front-line advice & training, developing advice services, quality framework and working with regulators. He created template letters to develop confidence among those struggling with debts. He founded a series of podcasts to show the link between debt and other sectors by getting industry experts together.
Thank you so much for coming along, the ‘money’ workshops were by far the most popular, that was you and ‘Direct Payments’
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