Our Junior Newbury Building Society scheme continues to teach primary school children throughout our branch towns about saving money.
This year, we rounded off activities at Rush Common Primary School in Abingdon.
What is Junior Newbury Building Society?
Junior Newbury Building Society (JNBS) is a groundbreaking financial education project, which we have been running since 2008 throughout Berkshire, Hampshire, and Oxfordshire. With help from their local branch team, the children are empowered to run their own branch in the school once a week – taking real savings deposits from customers (aka fellow pupils!) and updating the payees record of receipt, just like a real cashier.
Setting Rush Common’s branch up for success
Our team spent the day at Rush Common with Year 6 pupils, training the children to take deposits, count money, update cards and display Newbury’s excellent customer service ethos.
In a new aspect of the scheme this year, keen creative minds have also been recruited to become Marketing Officers for the branches. The marketeers are responsible for promoting the JNBS branch at their school – often with great results!
Whilst our new Cashiers got to grips with cash, coins and counting, those in the marketing workshop created some eye-catching posters to attract new customers, highlighting the chance for stickers and certificates for savers who visit the branch 10 times or more.
Want JNBS at your children’s school?
We're no longer running branches for JNBS, but if you'd like to talk to us about running one of our new JNBS workshops in your school, send us an email and we’ll be in touch.