Innovation in Financial Inclusion Community Finance Solutions

In the final episode Pål takes stock of financial education in the UK and discusses what it might or should look like in the future. He is joined by Quentin Nason from City Pay it Forward.

Pål talks about community-based financial education with Kate McQueen from the Money Charity and Toynbee Hall’s Matt Dronfield. The discussion covers content and delivery, key delivery partners and how to engage local residents.

Jonathan Watts-Lay from WEALTH at work and Kayleigh Frost at Health Assured join Pål to talk about financial education delivered at people’s places of work. The discussion touches on delivery and content, challenges and innovative practice.

Pål talks about financial education aimed at children and young people with Russell Winnard from Young Enterprise and Leon Ward from MyBnk. They discuss the nature of content and delivery, learning and outcomes, key considerations and good practice.

Pål is joined by Professor Brenda J. Cude, University of Georgia, and Lisa Davis from the Money and Pensions Service to discuss what is financial education, what does it aim to achieve and what do we know about its impact.

In this episode, Andrew & Pål will be investigating Food Cooperatives. To learn more about this, they spoke with Dr Celia Plender and Yolande Barnsley. Celia is a lecturer at the University of Exeter who has conducted extensive fieldwork on urban, grassroots food coops to understand their policies and responses to social and political changes taking place around them. Yolande is a Food Co-op and Women's Wellbeing Project Coordinator at St Hilda’s East Community Centre, which sells affordable fruit and veg to local residents in Shoreditch, East London.