Launched for the first time in January 2020, the annual Young Money Challenge encourages young people to consider the connection between money management and wider issues affecting their local and global communities.
Launched for the first time in January 2020, the annual Young Money Challenge encourages young people to consider the connection between money management and wider issues affecting their local and global communities.
For our first year, we explored the connection between money management and environmental sustainability.
The Challenge has been hugely successful, with around 1000 children and young people participating across the UK. We’ve been extremely impressed by the outstanding entries, and overwhelmed by the passion shown by young people for money management, the environment, and their communities.
After much deliberation, and with thanks to Capita and a very special panel of judges who’ve helped us with this particularly difficult task, we’ve chosen our 9 winning entries.
Check out our incredible winning entries below!
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The Young Money Challenge 2020 was launched in partnership with Capita.
A huge thank you to our fantastic panel of Challenge 2020 judges:
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Congratulations to all our winners! The judges didn’t have an easy job at all as the quality of entries was particularly high but your passion, creativity and comprehensive understanding of responsible consumerism made your submissions absolutely stand out! Check out the winners’ incredible entries, and hear from them and their teachers about why they found taking part in this year’s Challenge so rewarding!
Florence Pethybridge: Age 5
Waldringfield Primary School
The judges loved Florence’s strong, relatable message and her wonderfully creative and memorable superhero. Thanks for reminding us that we can help save the planet by just doing such a simple thing as turning off our lights!
Jake Ashton: Age 5
Cunningham Hill Infant School
The judges were really impressed with Jake’s creative superhero, they thought the design was really clever and Jake’s call to action for people to turn off their lights was simple but very effective!
Jonah James: Age 4
Cunningham Hill Infant School
Jonah’s super hero was so creative. He chose powers that were all clearly connected to protecting the planet. The judges were also very touched that he chose to name his superhero after his new baby sister!
Zaynah Thompson: Age 7
St Anne’s RC Primary School
The judges were really impressed with Zaynah’s creative and thoughtful entry. It was evident that she spent a lot of time creating her campaign material and exploring the impacts of fast fashion. She chose a really clever example to show how we can all do something very simple to make a big difference.
Jack Littlewood: Age 11
St John Vianney Catholic Primary School
The judges were really impressed with the maturity of Jack’s entry. His message was extremely strong and the judges felt it could easily have been a piece of professional campaign material!
Freya Cooke: Age 11
St John Vianney Catholic Primary School
Freya’s entry was so creative and impactful and her message was memorable and clear. Including the photo of a cottage pie was particularly clever as it showed the practical things we can do to save money and protect the environment. We also all loved her call to action to become a ‘waste-free superhero!’
Edwina Fung and Tawanrat Wimonsopapan: Age 16
Woldingham School
The judges were so impressed by their beautifully vibrant and eye-catching poster as well as their simple and achievable solutions to food waste.All their materials were very well researched and we all learnt something from them!
Phoebe Whittingham, Lily Stockford & Bethany Rose-Michael: Age 13
Tormead School
The judges were so impressed by their memorable campaign material and their very strong campaign message. Their well researched article really demonstrated how much they care about the issue of fast fashion.
Kristina York: Age 14
St Augustine’s Catholic College
The judges were so impressed by her beautifully presented poster and her extremely strong and relatable message. Kristina demonstrated a comprehensive understanding of the simple things we can do to avoid energy waste and presented these in an engaging and accessible way.
Florence is our overall winner for Category One!
Florence has recorded us a short video to tell us more about her superhero and how she feels to be a winner!
Francesca Kennedy, Florence’s teacher at Waldringfield Primary School.
“If I’m completely honest, I just love trying to provide opportunities for learning with purpose for my Squiggles class. When I suggested to the class, we took part in the Young Money challenge, I had 11 children in our school bubble, and 19 at home! Florence worked on the challenge at school and we are so unbelievably proud of her. She is a special, special girl who deserves all of the wonderful joys and sparkles that come her way! We will definitely be taking part in the challenge next year… hopefully in a more ‘pandemic free’ way!”
Jake is our runner up for Category One!
“I can’t believe I am one of the winners. It was so fun making up a ninja superhero! And now I try and turn the lights off in my house all the time.”
Clare Barwin, Jake and Jonah’s teacher at Cunningham Hill Infants School.
When we were approached to enter a challenge called “young money” it was too much of a good opportunity to miss. Not only did it make links to our Maths and PSHE Curriculum, but also British Values and SMSC. Children are never too young to start to think about the connection between money and their local and wider communities.
Zaynah is our overall winner for Category Two!
See how Zaynah’s been putting her learning from the challenge into practice and getting very creative. She’s not only been saving money but helping to protect the planet too!
Freya is a runner up for Category Two!
“I was thrilled to have been chosen as a winner and really enjoyed doing the work. It was a great opportunity to find out more about food waste and how my family could improve our food waste footprint. Thank you for the opportunity; I would definitely enter again!”
Jack is a runner up for Category Two!
Jack’s very passionate about reducing his energy waste and strongly believes we should all do the same. Listen to Jack’s short video to hear why he enjoyed the Challenge and how he feels to be a winner!
Claire Littlewood, Jack and Freya’s teacher at St John Vianney Catholic Primary School.
“We are so proud of our pupils, Freya and Jack, who have both been extremely successful as runners-up in the 7-11 category of the Young Money Challenge, 2020. I know that both children worked very hard to encourage responsible consumerism through their competition entries and I have no doubt that they will continue to promote this into the future. Thank you to the Young Enterprise and Young Money initiative for providing this opportunity for our pupils and for continuing to inspire young people.”
Tawanrat & Edwina are our Overall Winners for Category Three.
The girls are so passionate about helping people stop food waste and protecting the planet.
“The fact that we’re all doing it even if it’s a small change, is better than not trying at all.”
Kristina is a Category Three runner up.
“I was thrilled to have been chosen as a winner and really enjoyed doing the work. It was a great opportunity to find out more about food waste and how my family could improve our food waste footprint. Thank you for the opportunity; I would definitely enter again!”
Phoebe & Bethany are our Runners Up for Category Three.
The girls are really passionate about raising awareness of the impact of fast fashion.
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