Financial Education


What are Santander doing to promote financial education?

We're helping children and young people build their confidence in numbers and money through our programme The Numbers Game, in partnership with our educational partner Twinkl.

Our aim is to become leaders in financial education. Money habits are formed between the ages of 3 and 7, so helping children understand numbers and money in their early years is critical. That's why we're helping to make financial education compulsory for primary schools in England, as well as making it accessible for students, parents and teachers across the UK.

What we’ve achieved so far

Since January 2022, our financial education resources have been used by:

  • 2.5 million+ 5 to16 year olds
  • 100,000+ educators
  • 8,300+ schools 


This is thanks to our parnership with Twinkl's teachers, parents and carers and our former and current ambassadors Rio Ferdinand, The F2 Freestylers, Jenson Button, Dame Jessica Ennis-Hill and Ant & Dec. 

In fact, 93% of teachers and parents surveyed told us their students are now more confident with numbers.

Watch our film below featuring Ant & Dec to find out more

Find out more about The Numbers Game

 

Financial Education Recognition Scheme logo

Financial Education
Recognition Scheme

 

Last summer we launched the free Financial Education Recognition Scheme. This recognises schools who are investing in their students’ financial futures – 200 schools and educators have signed up already.
 

To find out more about our Recognition Scheme, visit Twinkl’s site, visit their website or watch our film below with Ant & Dec to find out more.

 

 


STEM resources in partnership
with Scuderia Ferrari

 

Working alongside our partners Twinkl and Ferrari, we’ve also created free engaging STEM resources which are themed & accompanied by films from the Ferrari drivers, engineers and mechanics.

Since 2022, we've engaged: 

  • 900,000 5 to 16 year olds globally
  • With over 650+ resources in 22 countries
  • And in 9 languages

To access the resources, please visit Twinkl’s website.

Why financial education is important to us

 

Research we carried out in March 2023 shows that: 

  • 75% of UK adults said they received inadequate or non-existent financial education at school
  • 70% percent reported that better financial education would have improved their ability to manage their finances during the cost of living crisis
  • Two-thirds of young people believed that a lack of financial education had led them down the path of debt
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