F&C and iChild join forces on financial education for children

Laura Miller
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F&C Investments has partnered with iChild, the educational resource provider, to kick start the school year with a series of programmes and toolkits for parents and children about money and saving, after research shows that the majority of children start to receive pocket money for the first time from the age of five.

The F&C Saving Superstar Programme offers a series of practical and useful tools for parents to help start financial conversations with their children in an interesting and engaging way and from an early age. The series of interactive activities - which covers basic topics, including budgeting for a weekly shop, saving for a specific toy through to credit versus debit cards, and shopping online - have also been designed in line with the National Curriculum. The new programme comes after F&C and iChild research of over 900 parents revealed almost half of children in the UK (41%) begin ...

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