Financial Education
Empowering future generations
Why Financial Education?
Financial education plays a key role in the success of our future generations, therefore F&C Investment Trust has set out to help young people build knowledge and confidence around the topics of money, saving and investing.
What we do
We’ve partnered with Coram Shakespeare Schools Foundation, a cultural education charity that gives young people across the UK the confidence to succeed in life, to produce lively and engaging financial education material for children during this time at home.
Watch our video to find out more about the F&C Investment Trust financial education roadshow, university competition and lecture.
Our Learning Material
Our material is centered around Shakespeare’s works; helping to make financial education material more accessible to children.
- Why do we need to budget?
- What's the point in saving money?
- Where money comes from
- How money is spent
- Investment: What's the point in investing your money
- Saving and investing money: What's the point?
- Money: Understanding what it is and how it is earned
- Spending: How and why we spend money
- Planning a Capulet Party
Our Initiatives
Financial education roadshow
F&C Investment Trust began a roadshow in 2018, touring primary schools in the UK. The programme was created with Coram Shakespeare Schools Foundation and was designed to help children develop a better understanding of how money works. Lessons covered a range of topics, including saving, the value of money, and how money grows over time. So far, we have:
- Visited 11 schools across the UK
- Connected with over 2,000 primary school children.
The F&C Investment Trust prize
Innovative thought and financial education go hand-in-hand. Therefore, as part of our commitment to financial education, we launched the F&C Investment Trust Prize in 2018 in partnership with City of Glasgow College. To encourage students to think about their financial futures, students were challenged to come up with a creative response as to where they saw the future of saving and investing.
F&C Investment Trust lecture series
The F&C Investment Trust lecture series was launched in 2018 to mark our 150th anniversary. The inaugural event, ‘Investing Past, Present and future‘, featured Professor Yuval Harari, Paul Niven and Dr Eliza Filby, as they looked at the history of investing, future of mankind, and the next generation of investors. ‘The future: it’s our responsibility’ was the focus for 2020, and guest speakers included Alastair Fothergill and Dr Hannah Fry.
- Watch the 2020 lecture highlights video or see speaker highlights.
- More information, visit fcitlecture.com.