Financial Inclusion and Energy Safeguarding School's Programme Collaborative GDN Project

MyBnk are a leading financial education charity with a vision of a financially capable generation. Having worked with over 20,000 individual primary age young people to directly educate them in managing money and financial matters, MyBnk are age and subject experts.

This is a collaborative VCMA project with Wales and West Utilities, NGN and SGN and a contract is being put in place as they are the only organisation who currently deliver this type of service in the UK.

Through partnership we can leverage this expertise to deliver material to primary age young people as part of their financial education programme from MyBnk. With a dedicated module specifically focused on energy safety, usage and efficiency a long term and successful partnership with tangible outcomes can be achieved.

Specific areas of the UK and groups within society are more at risk and we understand how to identify these communities using publicly available data, for example the % of students receiving pupil premium at schools. Through our partnership interventions, we will aim to target schools with young people most in need and at the highest risk of fuel poverty. The partnership will look to use data on poverty that impacts children to support the identification of need. To deliver a programme targeted to supporting 9-11 year old children and their communities build financial literacy skills and empower young people to use energy safely, efficiently and affordably, today and in the future. Our partnership will explore connection between financial literacy and energy. We will help young people in across the UK understand the importance of energy efficiency, safety, and affordability. We will explore the connection between energy usage, social impact and money.