Youth money thoughts

Anyone can learn about money.

Anyone can help anyone else learn.

Making mistakes doesn't mean you're hopeless.

Managing money is a lot about relationships & understanding other people.

Good financial education is not about turning people into more savvy consumers.

Good financial education starts with young people's interests and builds on their strengths.
Ideas for action

Nailing tax

PJ White | 22 March 2012

Budget week is a good time to explore some of the basics about tax, particularly personal tax allowance. Take time, because it is complicated, and some young people get confused.

Here’s how one young man got hold of the wrong end of the personal allowance stick. He’d just got a job and told a youth [...]

PJ White | 22 March 2012 | Leave a comment
Ideas for action

Understanding payslips

PJ White | 15 January 2010

Do young people understand their payslips? It would be amazing if they did. A lot of adults, even those who’ve been working for years, confess there are elements they’ve never bothered to find out about. They just glance at the bottom of the note – how much they get at the end of month. A [...]

PJ White | 15 January 2010 | Leave a comment