The Money Charity is the UK’s financial capability charity. We can provide speakers and quotes for tv, radio or in print. We are happy to talk about financial education, money more generally, and debt.
Our latest press releases can be found below:
We’ve delivered nearly 900 classes on financial skills for 22,000 secondary school students in Wales over the last six years. We’ve seen that wales is, by many measures, ahead of the rest of the UK in providing financial education for
We hear all the time about rising house prices. But our Money Statistics find that it’s also historically low saving rates and negligible returns on deposits that make home ownership an ever more distant dream for many. If someone on
Tomorrow, in Neath Port Talbot College, South Wales, we will reach our 150,000th student since we began to deliver financial education in schools and colleges six years ago. This workshop, like nearly 5,000 that have come before, is full of
Introduction In September 2016, The Money Charity released ‘Financial education in schools: how to fix two lost years?’ – original research into the state of financial education in English schools two years after its introduction to the Maths and Citizenship
The Money Stats are out today showing for the first time that private debt has topped £1.5 trillion. To put this into perspective, the average adult in the UK now owes almost £30,000, or 113.3% of average annual earnings. This figure has grown
The Money Stats are out today and figures reveal that the latest group of students from England to begin to pay off their loans owe more than ever before. The average debt for the graduates who entered repayment this year
Today the UK’s leading financial capability charity The Money Charity releases The Money Statistics, giving an overview of the financial situation in the UK. Our statistics reveal that individuals are taking on unsecured debt at a faster pace than any time
The Money Charity’s Money Stats are out today and they paint a worrying picture of saving in the UK. Though the Bank of England base rate has held steady at a historic low of 0.5% for the past seven years,
The Money Charity’s Money Stats are out today. New figures show that the average rate of interest for instant access savings accounts is at a record low of 0.37%. It’s not good news for savers and means that if a
The Money Statistics are out and for the first month since December 2011, the amount we owe in mortgages, loans and credit card debt has fallen. People in the UK owed £1.455 trillion at the end of December 2015, this