PFS launches student website to replace physical lessons

My Personal Finance Skills goes digital

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The Personal Finance Society (PFS) has launched a website to complement its existing financial awareness programme for young people.

The website gives users online access to the PFS's My Personal Finance Skills programme, a pro-bono initiative led by adviser ambassadors, to teach students key financial lessons. It will include online lessons to replace the physical ones conducted before the pandemic, which reached up to 12,000 students during 400 classes across the UK. PFS chief executive Keith Richards said the professional body had adapted its in-school material to offer students free online financial education. "We hope teachers, parents and pupils find these online sessions useful in educating the nation's t...

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