Just Finance Foundation

Just Finance Foundation
Just Finance Foundation is a national charity working with schools, families, and changemakers to build financially resilient communities where everyone has an equal opportunity to thrive. We know that financial education is most effective when delivered by the people families trust. That is why we upskill teachers, parents and community leaders to educate people of all ages and backgrounds.

Our flagship programme and primary focus in 2023 is LifeSavers – a financial education programme delivered free to primary schools. We work directly with teachers, educators and schools to provide a wide range of curriculum linked classroom resources and practical activities to engage children with financial education from a young age.

Since 2017, we have reached nearly 300 schools and 85,000 children. So far this academic year, we have expanded by another 60 schools.

Core LifeSavers Resources

5 Big Questions
Our 5 Big Questions are designed to help children aged 7-11 explore what it means to be wise, generous, just and thankful with our money. The 5 Big Questions resources are designed to be delivered flexibly to suit the requirements of individual schools, and may be used alongside other financial education resources.

90% of teachers using the 5 Big Questions reported feeling confident or very confident about teaching financial education after using our resource. 97% will use it again.

Milo’s Money
Milo’s Money is an Early Years and Key Stage 1 resource containing a dinosaur themed storybook, online game and instructive toy that helps introduce key money concepts to children aged 5-7. This fills an important gap in early education, as most children develop habits around by the age of 7 but are not taught money lessons until secondary school.

100% of teachers reported a minimum of a 25% student comprehension increase in the following areas:

• The importance of saving some of your money
• Knowing how much money you have
• Knowing how to look after your money.

Moneybox Theatre
Moneybox Productions is a brand new drama theme week kit inspiring student creativity, collaboration, and critical thinking as they write and perform short skits. This resource includes access to a page of downloadable resources, money theme week lesson ideas plus a box of drama props for your students’ skits and productions. This resource is currently in the pilot stage.

Ongoing Project Work

JFF and Jigsaw PSHE partner to deliver webinars
This new partnership with JFF will help reach more teachers with training, tools, and support through the LifeSavers programme. It also offers 10% off Jigsaw PSHE 3-11 programmes for participating LifeSavers Schools. Jigsaw PSHE and the LifeSavers education team will launch a series of webinars to support teachers to practically embed financial education in Primary Schools, and help their students understand our relationship with money.

Alternative Provision Settings Research Project
Thanks to generous funding from the Money and Pensions Service, we will work directly with primary alternative provisions settings to review existing resources and understand how to effectively adapt our products to serve teachers and children in this context. Using this research, we will expand our LifeSavers programme to include tools, resources, and training to meet the needs of this group. Our aim is to make these learnings available in a public report, contributing important knowledge to the sector and aiding the development of additional support in the future.

Teachers working in alternative provision, including PRUs or SEMH settings, are encouraged to participate in this new research project. You can register your interest by contacting sarah.barlow@jff.org.uk

Just Finance Foundation