Money Ready Northern Ireland

02/04/2026

24/03/2026

24/03/2026

23/03/2026

It was a privilege to be invited to lead a budgeting workshop at the Armagh Banbridge Craigavon Area Youth Service Youth Voice event last week! You know you're doing something right when young participants in a workshop want to bring it to a wider audience of their peers!

🙏Thanks to all the team for organisers, to the pupils for their participation, and special thanks to Maggie for being such an amazing wing woman in all the budgeting sessions!

Money Ready UK

18/03/2026

It's not too late to sign up to our free webinar tomorrow!

If you work with young people aged 9-13 this could be the session for you!

13/03/2026

It was great to be back into St. Peter's Immaculata Youth Centre Belfast to kick off a new Money Ready UK accredited course with their young leadership group! It was a full crowd and they had a huge range of experiences to share and questions to ask.

We covered the differences between being employed and self employed including:

💷 Rights to the minimum wage, the pros and cons of the minimum wage and the work of Living Wage UK

🌴 Holiday pay and ⏲️ limits on working time, with an insightful comparison provided by the visiting students from the USA

🤒 Entitlement to sick pay

📝 And then we moved on to getting paid, and this group now know what to expect on their first payslip so they don't get the shock of deductions that so many of us experience because no-one warned us!

Well done on such a strong start to the session!

05/03/2026

27/02/2026

📷 Our Manager Angela caught here deep in conversation about potential opportunities for getting even more Money Ready UK programmes out where they are needed most across NI!

🔥💪It was great to hear about all the different support available, and as ever it is inspiring to learn about all the amazing work going on across the VCSE improving lives!

👏 Thanks to NICVA for another great session and to all the organisations we spoke to for their passion and guidance!

26/02/2026

Yesterday we welcomed Niamh and Roise from St Joseph's College Belfast and Dominican College Fortwilliam to our office at the Innovation Factory, Belfast for a Sisters-IN day.

The day whizzed by with the young women:

🤝 Getting to know you activities where we shared strengths, doubts and secret skills
↪️ Learning about the squiggly journeys into leadership from different members of staff
🏫 Learning from each others' experience with projects, prefect journeys and mentorship in school
🎓 Experiencing our Money Ready UK Uni Ready materials to prepare them for the financial decisions that are part and parcel of the career decisions that they are making for their life beyond 6th Form
🤳 Some reverse mentoring with IT support for staff members switching between Apple and Android
👍👎Feedback on trial materials and interactive tools
💬 Impact interviews giving an insight into the preparation we put into our sessions and improving the experience for our participants

Looking forward to the Celebration Event in March already!

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25/02/2026

Join our NI event to explore menopause, pensions, and financial wellbeing with guidance from Menopause NI and MaPS specialists.

24/02/2026

💷 Empowering Our Students with Life-Changing Financial Skills 💷

Money Ready is a UK charity dedicated to making financial literacy a right for everyone — giving people of all ages the tools they need to manage money with confidence.

We were delighted to welcome Angela to St Dominic’s, where her interactive, expert-designed workshops truly brought this mission to life. Every year, Money Ready delivers financial education to over 50,000 people across the UK, helping individuals build skills that last a lifetime.

Their programmes cover essential topics including:
✔️ Budgeting
✔️ Saving
✔️ Debt management
✔️ Digital money
✔️ Student finance
✔️ Living independently

Money Ready supports a wide range of groups — from school pupils to young adults leaving care, as well as adults experiencing financial hardship — ensuring that financial education is accessible to everyone.

Why does this matter? Research shows that financial illiteracy can cost the average person £640 per year due to confusion and indecision — what the charity calls “the cost of not knowing.”

Angela’s sessions equipped our students with the knowledge, confidence, and practical skills they need to avoid these pitfalls and make informed choices as they move into adulthood.

Find out more about their incredible work: Money Ready Northern Ireland

23/02/2026

🚨Calling all P7 and Year 8 teachers - the next Big Money lesson will be coming to you live during

💻Following on from our previous webinars on *Gaming, Online Shopping and Social Media* and the *Hidden Impact of Online Scams* our next webinar will cover the pros and cons of borrowing.

👩‍🏫This lesson is ideal for school pupils in P7 and Year 8 but is also suitable for children of a similar age across KS2 and KS3.

Join us on Thursday 19th March at 10am live on Teams. Register now ➡️ 5b627ce0-f1d1-4653-a0cf-de62d54b61ac@f45d5e98-0be7-4ce9-af5d-cfc0638df88c?fbclid=IwY2xjawQJGadleHRuA2FlbQIxMABzcnRjBmFwcF9pZBAyMjIwMzkxNzg4MjAwODkyAAEetZW4SsqApYZvKKPbS1uD9LNffRECHpd7KcjJrCWCN389blnfpg9mUnpVwW8_aem_xyJWUpt61DqCiI80sLpX3w" rel="ugc" target="_blank">https://events.teams.microsoft.com/event/5b627ce0-f1d1-4653-a0cf-de62d54b61ac@f45d5e98-0be7-4ce9-af5d-cfc0638df88c?fbclid=IwY2xjawQJGadleHRuA2FlbQIxMABzcnRjBmFwcF9pZBAyMjIwMzkxNzg4MjAwODkyAAEetZW4SsqApYZvKKPbS1uD9LNffRECHpd7KcjJrCWCN389blnfpg9mUnpVwW8_aem_xyJWUpt61DqCiI80sLpX3w

Read more, and find links to recordings of our previous two Big Money Lessons ➡️ https://moneyready.org/update/big-money-lesson-borrowing/