WizeUp 

Education about personal finances is often missing from the school curriculum, with a lack of time and confidence meaning that learning about savings, mortgages, bank accounts, debt, and more can fall to the bottom of the agenda.

According to Financial Capability, only 4 in 10 children and young people say they have had some kind of financial education in school. We want to change that.

We've partnered up with WizeUp Financial Education charity (charity no. 1190032), to deliver virtual and in-person classroom sessions to secondary schools throughout our branch communities. 

How does it work?

WizeUp deliver tailored financial education sessions to schools and colleges through interactive virtual and in-person workshops. The workshops empower young people to understand and manage their finances as they grow, as well as making financial education simple for teachers.

Here's some of the topics schools can choose to put on the workshop agenda:

• Budgeting.

• Credit cards.

• CV writing.

• Income and National Insurance.

• Inflation.

• Saving and investing.

• The history of money.

Schools we've delivered workshops at:

• Trinity School, Newbury.

• The Downs School, Compton.

• The Emmbrook School, Wokingham.

• St Crispin's School, Wokingham.

• John O'Gaunt School, Hungerford.

• John Hanson Secondary School, Andover.