Smart money skills for every age
Welcome to Money Smart Kids, where we empower children and young people aged 5 to 18 with the financial confidence they need for life. Our fun, practical, and age-appropriate programmes teach essential skills in saving, spending, earning, and staying safe with money, ensuring they grow into capable adults ready for any financial challenge.
Our age-perfect programmes
We offer a progressive learning journey designed to grow with your child, building essential financial literacy step-by-step. Each stage is crafted to be engaging, relevant, and impactful for their specific age and developmental needs.
Key Stage 1 & 2 Early money explorers
Goal: Build fun, foundational money awareness. Focus on what money is, identifying coins and notes, earning through simple tasks, saving vs. spending, and understanding needs vs. wants. Activities include 'Money Storytime' and savings jar challenges.
Key Stage 3 & 4: Confident money managers
Goal: Strengthen everyday money skills and equip with practical tools. Focus on setting goals, basic budgeting, pocket-money management, understanding value, digital money, and basic entrepreneurship. Activities: Build-your-own budget, interest-growth simulations.
Key Stage 5: Ready-for-life financial foundations
Goal: Prepare teens for real-life financial responsibility and adulthood. Focus on advanced budgeting, banking products, understanding payslips, taxes, credit, and investing basics. personal finance planners and Student Loans.
What makes us unique?
At Money Smart Kids, we do more than teach children about money—we help them build the confidence and life skills needed to make smart financial choices.
Our approach is designed specifically for young learners, combining practical education with engaging experiences that make financial concepts easy to understand and remember.
Learning Through Stories and Characters
Children connect best with stories. Our programmes use engaging characters such as Detective Penny, Inspector Pound, Digi Dana, and Savvy the Saving Pig to turn financial learning into an adventure. These characters help bring money concepts to life in a way children enjoy and relate to.
Real-Life Money Skills
We focus on the everyday financial skills that children will actually use, including saving, budgeting, understanding spending choices, and recognising the value of money. Our activities help children see how money works in the real world.
Age-Appropriate Learning
Our resources are carefully designed to match the way children learn at different stages, from early primary school through to older students beginning to make independent financial decisions.
Engaging and Interactive
We believe children learn best by doing. Our workshops and resources include games, challenges, discussions, and hands-on activities that make learning memorable and fun.
Supporting Families and Schools
Financial education works best when children receive consistent messages at home and at school. That’s why we design our resources to support parents, teachers, and communities in building positive money habits together.
Accessible for All Children
As a not-for-profit organisation, our goal is to make financial education accessible to as many children as possible, regardless of their background or circumstances.
