Money4YOU, formerly Money4Youth, is a UK based charity founded in 2014 by Carol Akiwumi MBE, which holds the importance of financial literacy at its core.
Our pilot programmes were funded by Barnet Innovation Bank and started as a six week lunchtime money club for Year 5 pupils at Dollis Junior School in London. Following this, we ran a two week financial literacy session with Year 12 students at Copthall School, London, and coached them to deliver a similar session to their fellow Year 7 students.
Seeing everyone beam with confidence in their new skills and knowledge, confirmed the positive impact we wanted to continue to make.
Since then, we have delivered financial literacy classes to more than 2,500 young people in schools and community groups in the UK, Rwanda, Nigeria, Liberia, Cameroon and Zambia.
And now our activities have expanded to include work with nonprofits and entrepreneurs, to give them the tools they need to make the most of their resources, as well as the knowledge and confidence to make their own positive change in the world.
Collectively, this is our movement of #worldchangers.
A world where disadvantaged and marginalised communities thrive because individuals and organisations that serve them have access to financial management education and the confidence to engage in enterprise.
Money4YOU exists to tackle inequality through quality education by equipping individuals and organisations with tools for stewardship, financial sustainability and entrepreneurship.
Our work places a strong emphasis on young people, women and disadvantaged communities. Through our interventions, we light fires that equip and inspire people to be the architects of their own (lasting) change.
