Bishopscourt Financial Planning has won a new contract to provide independent financial advice to postal employees.
It will work with non-financial advisers Post Office Employee Welfare Advisers and People Change Advisers. The contract will involve London-based Bishopscourt presenting a series of seminars and individual sessions on financial planning in post offices throughout the UK.
Bishopscourt is a subsidiary of affinity marketing company Membership Services Direct and holds over 1,000 financial planning seminars a year with existing clients.
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