New Year, New Outlook… Taking Control of Your Wealth & Health in 2025

This panel-style event will focus on empowering women to take charge of their wealth and health. With expert speakers from various fields, we’ll cover everything from financial literacy and workplace rights to personal wellbeing, offering insights you can apply immediately to improve your life. Whether you’re looking to achieve greater financial security, balance your work and personal priorities, or invest in your health, this event is designed to provide inspiration and actionable advice.

Here’s what to expect:

• Improving Your Financial Health
  • Financial Planner Vicki Harper from Evelyn Partners, will help you move beyond “ostrich mode” when it comes to money, understand how to take control of your finances and plan effectively. Whilst Tax Manager, Emily Bingham at Alexander & Co, will provide insights on how understanding your tax obligations can improve your financial health, from maximising your side hustle profits to ensuring you’re paying the correct amount of tax through your tax code.
• Wealth Protection in Relationships
  • Family Lawyer and Partner at Freeths, Natalie Dickson, will cover essential financial considerations when entering or exiting relationships, including:
  • The importance of pre-nups, post-nups, and cohabitation agreements.
  • How to navigate gifts, inheritances, and trust assets.
  • Financial planning tips for marriage or cohabitation.
• Tightening up your household expenditure
  • Emma Elston, founder of Miss Money Savvy and previous Woman of the Year, will share practical tips on how to tighten your household budget and how small adjustments can help us keep more money in our pockets. Emma will discuss how we should differentiate between wants and needs, and consider implementing self-control strategies to manage our spending, especially when faced with temptation. 
• Understanding Your Rights at Work
  • Employment Associate at Freeths, Sarah Joseph-Bogues will explore workplace rights on key issues such as:
  • Flexible working.
  • Navigating workplace challenges related to menopause and fertility.
  • Other critical rights for women in the workplace.
• Prioritising Your Health & Wellbeing
  • Suzy Glaskie, founder of Peppermint Wellness will inspire you with lessons from her journey from burnt-out PR executive to thriving health coach. She’ll discuss:
  • How to rethink your approach to wellbeing as you age
  • Why most January health goals fail—and how to set meaningful ones.
  • Top tips for improving your health and thriving in 2025.

This event provides opportunity to equip yourself with the knowledge and connections to make 2025 your most successful and fulfilling year yet. 

We look forward to seeing you there!

Speakers

Vicki Harper, Financial Planner – Evelyn Partners

Vicki predominantly works with professionals,  business owners and divorcing clients. She is passionate about helping clients to achieve their goals with a realistic financial plan that is regularly updated to ensure clients successfully navigate key life events such as business sale, retirement and divorce.

Emily Bingham, Tax Manager  Alexander and Co

Emily is a tax advisor at Alexander & Co, where she specialises in providing comprehensive tax advice to both businesses and individuals. Her expertise ranges from supporting startups to working with large audited entities, with a particular focus on owner-managed businesses. She also leads the firm’s cryptocurrency team and recently received a national tax award for her outstanding work in this emerging area.

Suzy Glaskie, Founder – Peppermint Wellness

Suzy is a functional medicine health coach, founder of www.peppermintwellness.co.uk and host of the Midlife Illuminated podcast. She spent two decades working in PR, struggling to juggle the running of a busy consultancy with her three young kids. After losing her father, she opted to follow her heart and retrain as a health coach. She now works with individuals, groups and corporate teams to empower people to reclaim their physical, mental and emotional health. She’s been featured in the Financial Times and has appeared on a BBC documentary film on ultra-processed foods.

Emma Elston MBE, Founder – Miss Money Savvy

Emma is an entrepreneur and investor. She co-founded and served as the CEO of UKCM for 25 years until August 2023, when the business was acquired by the US-owned Impact Environmental Group. Emma has a passion for startups and has invested in and grown several of these into thriving and successful businesses. She also dedicates her time to mentoring individuals from various backgrounds, helping them in their business and personal lives but also helps people make the leap into the world of business or providing them with advice and support that can significantly improve their outlook.
 
Emma's newest venture is as the founder of Miss Money Savvy, part of the Savvy Group, which also includes B2B Savvy and Student Savvy. This personal and business solutions Group of Companies aims to save individuals and businesses time and money while helping them make informed decisions to support their growth. Additionally, it seeks the best deals available in the UK for services such as energy, broadband, mobile, insurance, technology and more.
 
In recognition of her achievements, Emma was named Business Woman of the Year in 2012 and was awarded an MBE in 2015 for her services to manufacturing. She also serves as an ambassador for The King’s Trust and Women Supporting Women.

Natalie Dickson, Partner – Freeths

Natalie is well known as a family specialist dealing with a wide range of family law matters. She deals predominantly with divorce, financial settlements on divorce and arrangements for children. She specialises in advising and representing a range of clients but particularly those with complex asset bases, sports and media personalities, owners of landed estates with inherited and dynastic wealth, business owners, directors, lottery winners, members of the judiciary and other professionals. Natalie also advises families and wealthy individuals on wealth protection agreements including pre-nups, post-nups and cohabitation agreements.

Sarah Joseph-Bogues, Senior Associate – Freeths

Sarah deals with all aspects of contentious and non-contentious UK employment law and practice. This ranges from drafting settlement agreements, drafting and reviewing contracts of employment/director service agreements, providing day to day employee relations advice and handling employment tribunal claims. Sarah also works closely with the firm’s corporate team to guide and assist businesses, individual shareholders and investors through the employment aspects of transactions.