youthmoney

Here’s some sound advice – from a column on the BBC website called How to money spin. Make a budget and stick to it. Putting the numbers down on paper will show you just where all the money is going. Set a limit on how much you are going to spend and stick to it [...]

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Last year, young women in the Guides said handling money is a skill every modern girl should have. This year, Girlguiding UK responded with a four-page advice leaflet. Tips include shopping around, avoiding debt and budgeting. Download Guiding’s guide to managing money.

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There’s an interesting, thoughtful, well-sourced look at young people’s attitude to money, and their anxieties about future debt, on the Guardian.co.uk website. Sorry. Just joking. Actually it’s a badly rearranged press release. But that’s churnalism for you. The press release, and the article, quote a senior corporate PR person from Community Service Volunteers saying young [...]

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Indeed you might. And that’s just what most scout groups look like… Anyway, it’s the words that matter, not the pretty pictures. In this case, the content is about financial advice for young people. Specifically, it is about what you can and cannot do & say under laws relating to financial services regulation. The point [...]

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