Chief Economist visits charity headquarters Debt Advice Foundation recently welcomed the Bank of England to discuss the charity’s financial education programme, DebtAware. Andy Haldane, the Bank’s Chief Economist, and John Young, the BofE’s North West Agent, were in attendance, along with Debt Advice Foundation CEO David Rodger, Chair of the Board of Trustee’s Dennis Benson … Read more
We’re in the running to receive a share of £120,000! Via our parent charity Debt Advice Foundation, the DebtAware project has been announced as one of five campaigns to potentially win a share of funds from the OneFamily Foundation. Although five organisations have been shortlisted, only THREE UK charities will be given a donation from … Read more
DebtAware adds to its resources for schools Wannabe author Poppy Larkin, aged 11, has had a chance to see her work published after working with DebtAware to create a new short story exploring greed, jealousy and work ethic. The “Money Doesn’t Grow on Trees” fictional diary focuses on the life lessons learnt by two siblings … Read more
BBC program focuses on money management lessons The BBC program Right on the Money starring Denise Lewis and Dominic Littlewood recently featured the DebtAware programme in one of its episodes. Firstly looking at helping a young couple struggling with household bills with the added pressure of a wedding, the program then moves into the classroom … Read more
Glasgow primary school leads way in financial education Riverside Primary School in Govan has become the first Glasgow school to gain Accredited Centre status for the DebtAware Money Management Programme. A plaque was presented to the whole school during assembly by Brian Souter, Education Manager at DebtAware and the school will also be able to … Read more
Can you teach children to be good with money? To avoid future debt, we believe financial capability education should start at primary school, before children start managing their own money and bad financial habits are learned. To do this, we created a programme that covers a wide-range of financial subjects in an engaging and interesting … Read more
DebtAware have formed a partnership with Shadsworth and Whitebirk Big Local to teach money management know-how to Blackburn pupils. We secured £2,000 from the lottery-funded Big Local to bring our DebtAware Money Management Programme into four new primary schools in the area; Intack Primary, Shadsworth Junior School, St Antony’s RC Primary and St Oswald’s C … Read more
Making sure the DebtAware project has an impact DebtAware is the name for the financial education work of national debt charity Debt Advice Foundation. The premise of the programme is that many people find themselves in serious debt because of a lack of financial capability, therefore, young people should be given the chance to learn … Read more
Research suggests parents should talk to their children about money from the age of four New research by the Money Advice Service (MAS) that children who are kept in the dark about money management may have financial problems when they reach adulthood. In fact, the research goes so far as to say that giving offspring … Read more
Money management lessons to be part of summer program The BBC have visited Ashleigh Primary School in Darwen as it films a new money management series, due to be aired in the summer. The lesson recorded was on budgeting and is one of the modules taught in our free money management course for pupils in … Read more