Resources and Tools

If you are working to improve young people’s understanding of money, high quality resources are a great place to start. Below you will find tools and Quality Mark resources produced by us and the organisations we support that can be used by educators in formal and non-formal settings, parents/carers and children and young people themselves.

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Young Money Challenge Packs 2022

4 – 19 Quality Mark

The 2022 theme is money management and inclusion! Children and young people can explore the importance of helping others to make wise choices about how to use and protect their money.

Money Guides for Children

5 – 18 Quality Mark

Family Building Society’s series of money guides for children are designed to help children aged 5 to 18 build knowledge, skills and confidence to manage their finances well.

Aspire

14 – 18 Quality Mark

Aspire provides young people with a wider understanding of how the economy works, equipping them with important life skills. They will learn about how to make smart financial decisions on how they make, save and invest money. The course will inspire them to consider options they may not have been aware of, take control of their futures and achieve their goals.

Money Skills Activity Badge

6 – 11 Quality Mark

Scouts are used to dealing with money. They fundraise for charities, budget for camps, and raise money for jamborees as part of everything they do to build skills for life. Scouts have also developed badges that focus on fun, active ways for young people to build their money skills.

Primary Financial Literacy

7 – 11 Quality Mark

Barclays LifeSkills, the free employability and financial capability programme, has created a suite of financial literacy lessons for primary school children aged 7-11 years old. These lessons teach pupils how to form good money habits now which can help them manage their finances as they grow older.

Thrive

12 – 16 Quality Mark

Thrive has been designed to develop critical financial education skills through five 10-minute online modules, plus offline classroom activities.  

Mae’ch Arian o Bwys – Argraffiad Cymru

14 – 16 Quality Mark

Lluniwyd Mae’ch Arian o Bwys (Argraffiad Cymru) i’w ddefnyddio gyda phobl ifanc 14 – 16 oed yng Nghymru ac mae’n ymdrin â phynciau fel gwario a chynilo, benthyca, dyled, yswiriant, cyllid myfyrwyr a chynllunio ar gyfer y dyfodol.

Your Money Matters – Wales Edition

14 – 16 Quality Mark

Your Money Matters (Wales Edition) has been designed for use with young people age 14 – 16 in Wales and covers topics including spending and saving, borrowing, debt, insurance, student finance & future planning.

Your Money Matters – England Edition

14 – 16 Quality Mark

Your Money Matters (England Edition) has been designed for use with young people age 14 - 16 in England and covers topics including spending and saving, borrowing, debt, insurance, student finance & future planning.