It’s been a couple of years since we first started working with Inspirational Youth to develop Money Matters, our interactive, game-based education session. At the start of the 2016-2017 academic year, we really felt ready to start rolling out this programme on a wider scale. Armed with a few kit-bags full of Money Matters games, […]
What makes financial education for young people a worthwhile cause for teachers and parents? Co-Head of Strategy, Tom Pilcher, caught up with Upton Cross Primary School Assistant Headteacher Katie Edwards. Katie, you are the Assistant Headteacher at Upton Cross Primary School. What do you love most about your job? Ever since I was 5 […]
On 7th January 2013 we published a blog called ‘RedSTART; a financial education charity and entrepreneurship programme‘. It marked the launch of RedSTART Educate, following the successful pilot day on 19th December 2012 with Lister Community School. Since then, we’ve worked with almost 3,500 students from 51 schools from across the UK and beyond. We have […]
Last week we celebrated gaining our charitable status at a launch event and expanded our offering by launching a learning portal for primary and secondary schoolchildren and teachers. This new hub will provide ready-made lesson plans and training resources for both primary and secondary school age groups. The materials, which are free to access, combine […]
With great surprise and delight, RedSTART was presented with the Editor's Choice Award at the Financial News Pensions Awards 2016 last night.
Do you remember who first taught you about money? What it is, and why it is important? Most of all, how you should spend it, and how you should save it?
Do children even care about financial education? That’s an important question we need to understand and address – especially since the entire United Kingdom has now introduced compulsory financial education in schools.
Keir Macdonald looks at how gamification can change the pensions industry.
“It’s a national disgrace that in the 20 years since introducing student loans, we’ve educated our youth into debt when they go to university, but never about debt”, says an e-petition to the government – one which has gathered 118,875 signatures.
The shift from Defined Benefit (DB) to Defined Contribution (DC) pension provision, unaccompanied by Financial Education for Young People, has the potential to precipitate socio-economic crisis.