News, Stories, and Updates
Read the latest news, insights and stories from our work - including research, updates from schools, and innovative approaches to tackling financial education.
Improving Financial Education Together: 2023 Teacher Survey Report
Teachers across the UK share how LifeSavers is making a difference to financial education in their classrooms.
Teachers confirm LifeSavers increases the quality of financial education in classrooms
Teachers across the UK have increased their confidence and skills in delivering financial education thanks to JFF’s LifeSavers programme, according to a recent report from external evaluators Public Perspective.
Just Finance Foundation and Jigsaw PSHE partner to promote financial education
Leading PSHE provider Jigsaw has partnered with the Just Finance Foundation (JFF) to bring LifeSavers financial education to more schools across the UK. Together, we aim to empower teachers to deliver financial education so that more children develop the essential skills and knowledge to manage money well.
Chris Cummings elected chair of the Just Finance Foundation
Chris Cummings, Chief Executive of the Investment Association (IA), has today been appointed Chair of the Just Finance Foundation (JFF), a national charity dedicated to improving financial education so that every child and family has equal opportunity to thrive. Chris has been a committed Trustee of JFF since 2022 and is well placed to lead the organisation in this new role.
The Ultimate Guide to Choosing Financial Education Resources for Your School
Do you want to know how to add financial education to your set curriculum? How it benefits you and your students? What should you look for in a quality financial education resource? Read our ultimate guide to financial education resources!
Our education team have created a checklist for teachers, schools and parents to help you choose the best resources for your school and children.
Investment sector comes together to support financial education for primary school children
The Just Finance Foundation (JFF) has today announced the creation of a Supporter Group which draws together leaders from organisations across the investment sector to significantly improve access to high quality financial education in the early years of education.
What challenges do women face in the financial world?
What challenges do women face in the financial world?
As we all work towards a fairer future, it is good to remember the challenges that different groups face every day. This article focusses on some of the financial challenges that women often experience in the workplace.
How can debt affect your mental health?
How can debt affect your mental health?
we explore the issue and point you in the direction of some useful information
A dinosaur helps children to manage their money
Just Finance Foundation’s ‘Milo’s Money’ programme improves how teachers introduce financial education to young children, with positive impact for the wider community as they continue to grow, according to a review published by the Money and Pensions Service.
Pensions: The Motherhood Penalty
On average, women across the UK have 38% less in their pension pots than men. For those over the age of 50, the gap is worse: 46%. In real money, that’s £52,592 in men’s workplace pension pots and £28,249 in women’s. This is more than double the gap for savers under the age of 30. So, what’s happening over those 20 years? And how can we change it?
Buy Now Pay Later - Is it worth it? You decide.
Buy Now Pay Later is an option to delay payment of items. Recently the FCA had to step in to tackle some unfair terms. Read our article to find out more.
Could these tricks save YOU £150 per year on your energy bills?
Just Finance Foundation collates some information to help you save up to £150 on your energy bills at home
COVID Cash Course Helps Over 30,000 In Need
Since the pandemic began, many families and communities across the UK have been thrown into financial chaos. Over a quarter of households have faced a reduction in income (Bank of England); issues of unemployment, furlough, Universal Credit, bills and arrears have impacted millions of families.
Through an Allchurches Trust grant, the Just Finance Foundation was able to expand its COVID Cash Course, an information and signposting workshop, empowering churches and community leaders to help their communities through a train-the-trainer model. This has now benefited over 30,000 individuals in need of signposting, resources, and accessible financial information.
Klarna: On Borrowed Time and Money?
Whilst buy-now pay-later have become a popular payment method for thousands of consumers shopping online, there have been anxieties and increasing debt concerns when having to pay monthly installments. Payments through buy-now-pay-later reached £2.7bn in 2020 alone (The Guardian).
5 Forgotten About Ways To Support Your Money This Lockdown
It’s a new year and a new lockdown.
You may be feeling worried, apathetic, angry or a mixture of many emotions.
Here are five (often forgotten about) ways that you could put pounds back into your pocket this lockdown, which we have taken from our COVID Cash Recovery course:
The Final Piece In The Jigsaw For Fighting COVID-19?
In Alford, a small Lincolnshire town 11 miles away from Skegness, a local community have been fighting back against COVID-19.
The ‘Alford Hub’, a support network with 90 volunteers, have been offering socially distant befriending, prescription delivery and other vital support to local people in Alford ever since the Coronavirus pandemic transformed our everyday lives in March.
Just Finance Black Country Team Up To Support Financial Resilience!
Our colleagues in the Black Country have launched a new campaign to improve the financial health and resilience of employees across the Black Country, and encourage workforce savings through credit unions.
Why 1st September 2020 Is An Important Date For Millions
Today (1st September 2020) marks a significant and symbolic day for many of teenagers across the UK.
Today, the first few thousand teenagers will gain access to their Child Trust Fund, money which has been accruing interest for eighteen years. Child Trust Funds (CTFs) were a government scheme in which provided two £250 or £500 deposits (dependent on parental income) in a government approved bank or investment account for the child.
We're Helping 18 Year Olds To Receive A £1,000 Cash Boost!
With the first set of children with Child Trust Funds due to turn 18 on 1st September, many teenagers are set to miss out on their Child Trust Fund money which has been accumulating interest for nearly two decades. HMRC estimates that over 700,000 of the Child Trust Fund accounts originally set up have been ‘lost’ or forgotten about, meaning a significant amount of the money provided by the government will remain unclaimed.
At the Just Finance Foundation, we are on a mission to:
1) Ensure everyone is reunited with the money in their CTF
2) Ensure that CTFs are used wisely in this difficult financial climate