Resources and Tools

If you are working to improve young people’s understanding of money, high quality resources are a great place to start. Below you will find tools and Quality Mark resources produced by us and the organisations we support that can be used by educators in formal and non-formal settings, parents/carers and children and young people themselves.

Please note: We are currently unable to ship resources outside of the UK. We are sorry for any inconvenience this might cause.

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Financial Education Package

3 – 18 Quality Mark

Scotland's Financial Schools have created a Financial Education Package which covers all phases and various areas of the Curriculum for Excellence.  

Example of the Web App gameplay
Raise

14 – 19 Quality Mark

Access the Raise Web App here The Raise Web App for 16–19 year-olds, is fully interactive, gamified and has elements of simulation of a virtual journey spanning the next forty years of their lives. Along this journey, students will be shown how saving and investing long-term could help them achieve a better and more secure financial future. They have goals to achieve, financial decisions to make, and scenarios to explore.

Money Mules Awareness: Don’t Be Fooled

9 – 14 Quality Mark

These resources are for primary (Year 5-6) and secondary (Year 7-9) which include a lesson plan and teacher guidance in aims to support teachers in raising awareness of this serious issue. Access these resource via the iChild website above or for the Welsh language version of the resource access via the download button.

Island Saver- Parent Guides

8 – 12

The Island Saver game is a fantastic tool for engaging young people with financial topics in an exciting and innovative manner. This involves discovering various ‘bankimals’ (piggy-bank-themed animals) and helping them with tasks and challenges, the rewards of which can be spent or saved. The parent guides provide opportunities for parents to engage with their children within the context of the game and bolster their learning.

Work Out Your Money – A Citizens Advice Havant Initiative

7 – 16 Quality Mark

A suite of five financial education lesson plans intended for delivery to a range of ages from year 4 to Year 11.

Seren’s Farm/Fferm Seren

7 – 11 Quality Mark

Please note: Hard copy orders are placed in quantities of 60 workbooks per pack.

Starting in 2022, Ysgol Pentrecelyn’s Key Stage 2 collaborated with Young Enterprise to deliver a financial education project that reflected the specific needs and interests of their rural community.  The need for the project arose from the school’s development plan (SDP) following the pandemic, which identified the impact on learners’ numeracy and financial capabilities. 

 

Stop Loan Sharks: Lessons in Safer Lending and Borrowing

11 – 19 Quality Mark

A resource centred on the activities of people who lend money illegally, applying a wider framework of personal finance education dealing with the general topics of staying safe, credit and debt and budgeting.

Stop Loan Sharks: Lessons About Keeping Your Money Safe

5 – 11 Quality Mark

A resource centred on the activities of people who lend money illegally, applying a wider framework of personal finance education dealing with the general topics of staying safe, credit and debt and budgeting.

My Money Matters

13 – 19 Quality Mark

Our online courses are designed to support young people to develop the vital skills they need to get into employment, earn and look after their money. Suitable for learners aged 13-19, each course is structured around a series of units, providing young people with multiple opportunities to learn, do and review. Based on the Your Money Matters textbook, over 6 online units, My Money Matters provides students with the opportunity to explore their own attitudes to money and gain key financial skills to help them in the real world.