youthmoney

Cool and funky youth organisation Kikass is offering a series of its money mastery seminars next year. They are practical, designed for youth workers. They focus on attitudes, beliefs and behaviour—the psychology of money. And they are likely to tackle participants’ own money concerns as much as those of the young people they work with.
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Thanks to a prompt response from A4E, here’s the full dates for free young people & money training for June and July.

Abergavenny 05 June
Thurrock 05 June
Bedford 12 June
Merthyr Tydfil 12 June
Norwich 16 June
Lincoln 16 June
North Lanarkshire 17 June
South Ayrshire 23 June
Hackney 24 June
Newquay 25 June
Exeter [...]

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Just what it says. It’s a one-day training course for adults working with neet 16 to 25 year olds. Set up by the Financial Services Authority and delivered by different training groups round the country.
Happening now, some places still available. Some dates:

21 May Preston
22 May Sheffield
28 May Durham
30 May Middlesbrough
03 Jun [...]

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Young People and Money is a course offering financial capability training to those working with young people. Specifically, that’s young people not in education, employment or training (NEET). It’s all about empowering young people by improving their financial awareness and capability.
Fairbridge is delivering the course in the north of England. It has the following dates [...]

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…that young people have used to explain why they are not bothered about sorting their finances out.

I’m going to win the lottery
We’ll get a recording contract
I’ll never live to 25
I’ll just go bankrupt
I’ll sell a kidney

They were brief asides in a packed money mastery course for youth workers run yesterday in London by youth charity Kikass. [...]

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