Using youth money

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Sources of help

Working with young people

The Money Advice Service has an excellent team working to help youth practitioners support young people in money management. Earlier this year it published a series of good practice guides, designed for use in different youth-related sectors. The Money in the Mix booklets, which also appeared as supplements to Children and Young People Now magazine, [...]

Sources of help

Basic bank accounts – the facts

What happens if I only have £6 left in my account and the cash machine only gives £10 notes?

The answer depends on whether or not your account has a buffer zone. If it has, you get the money, at no overdraft charge. Otherwise, no payout.

This is just one question of many answered in [...]

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Affordable credit

A young mother borrowed £1,000 from a doorstep lender to pay for furniture. Two years later she had repaid the company £3,800 at a rate of £159 a month. She still owed £600.

Hers was one of the case studies featured recently at an event hosted by Leeds City Credit Union.

The credit union gave [...]