News and stories about financial education and Just Finance Foundation
News, stories and updates
Just Finance Black Country Team Up To Support Financial Resilience!
Our colleagues in the Black Country have launched a new campaign to improve the financial health and resilience of employees across the Black Country, and encourage workforce savings through credit unions.
What Would You Do If I Gave You £15 Right Now?
What would you do if we gave you £15 right now?
Treat yourself? Save it for a rainy day? Invest it? Give it to a loved one?
What would you have done with £15 when you were younger?
Would this be any different?
‘I Wish I Learnt About Money At School!'
LifeSavers, our financial education programme for primary school children (KS1 and KS2), is now in it’s 4th year of delivery. Growing year-on-year, the programme now has 120 registered schools and we at The Just Finance Foundation (founders of LifeSavers) have ambitious plans to grow this number further!
£250,000 Grant Gives Financial Education to 8000 More Children
A £250,000 grant from Allchurches Trust will enable The Just Finance Foundation’s LifeSavers programme to provide financial education to thousands more primary school children, helping them to develop healthy money skills and habits at a key point in their lives.
A values-based approach to financial education: bringing meaning to conversations about money.
More and more organisations, schools and businesses are discovering the power of adopting and articulating a set of core values.
If everyone in an organisation shares the same values, then their energies are all channelled in the same direction. For businesses, some studies suggest that effective corporate values can generate up to 30 percent of difference in performance
'What Do Kids Know About Money?'
In the UK we are experiencing a period of uncertainty. With precarious incomes, ever-rising housing costs and unprecedented levels of indebtedness, distress, as a direct and indirect result of money, is epidemic across the UK. Currently, 11.5 million people in the UK have less than £100 in savings and nearly nine million of us are in serious debt (FinCap 2019). Yet money and personal finances can often be a taboo subject.