GoHenry

Our CEO, Louise Hill, kick-started the New Year with a visit to the House of Lords yesterday for a meeting with Lord Kulveer Ranger to discuss the importance of teaching financial education from a young age 💪 We'll be taking his advice firmly on board and shouting so everyone at the back can hear: financial education is a key life skill that needs to be taught in all schools from primary age - let’s #makemoneycount 📣 #curriculumreview #financialeducation #lifeskillsforkids

As part of our push to create brighter futures for the next generation, we were excited to deliver a lesson on ‘How to become an Entrepreneur’ at No.10 Downing Street a few weeks ago to over 30 amazing Year 5 school children from a Primary School in Wokingham ❤️ Because being smart with money is more than just maths 💪 As a lot of our teaching is done via our parent and child app, we don’t get to deliver lessons to children in person often and what a treat it was. The kids were so engaged and really got stuck into the session, where they identified problems in their community, school, or everyday life that they wanted to solve for, and then formed a plan for how they could address them 💡 This was the start of their business idea, which they then had to present back to our very own Dragons, Co-Founder and CEO of GoHenry, Louise Hill and Varun Chandra, special adviser to the Prime Minister 🐉 Congratulations to all of the children who came up with incredible ideas in just 60 minutes from AI teachers and portable phone chargers powered by body heat to invisible umbrellas, self-write paper and teddies to help you sleep and wake up 🧸 ☔ ✍ 📱 🎒 A big thank you to Number 10 for letting us take part in this special day and to the Prime Minister for making a surprise visit ✨ #Lessonsat10 #financialeducation #lifeskillsforkids #moneylessons #entrepreneurship

What does Gen Alpha want to learn about in school? That’s what the Financial Times set out to discover with our help a few weeks ago. We organised a discussion with some of our wonderful young customers and their parents, plus our co-founder and CEO, Louise Hill, and it turns out that, unsurprisingly, kids and teens want more financial education in the classroom. 💷📚 Thanks to Claer Barrett for the wonderful piece and for yet again highlighting this important issue, including a mention of TISA UK’s Financial Education Council’s call for the Government to make financial education compulsory in ALL schools. We hope the Government takes note as they now work through the responses to the Curriculum Review. 🙏 The curriculum doesn’t add up. It’s time to #makemoneycount. https://lnkd.in/eNt8i8Jp

🎉 We Won Big Last Night! 🏆🏆 We are thrilled to announce that our team took home two awards at last night's City AM Dragon Awards🐉🐲: 🏅 Award 1: Entrepreneur of the Year for our co-founder and CEO, Louise Hill 🏅 Award 2: Leadership in Financial Literacy for GoHenry Thank you to the judges for this recognition and, to everyone who has supported us on this journey, thank you too! Here’s to celebrating this milestone and continuing to make every kid smart with money.🚀

Fantastic to see our Finance Director Ashley Boonin flying the flag for all things financial education, explaining why financial literacy needs to be prioritised now to #makemoneycount for ALL young people 👏 https://lnkd.in/ePARsc78

A little later than originally planned, but last night we officially launched our Financial Education Manifesto with a parliament reception in the House of Commons ✨ While the snap election put paid to our event plans pre-summer, the new timings fell into place with the Government’s upcoming Curriculum Review providing the perfect platform to call for real change 💪 If the Government is serious about focusing on equipping the next generation with life skills and breaking down barriers, then financial education has to be top of the list 🥇 84% of kids and teens think it’s equally or more important than core subjects like Maths, English and Science, while 68% of 18-year-olds are worried about leaving school without any money skills 💔 So, during Money and Pensions Service's Talk Money Week, if you’re going to #DoOneThing, let that one thing be pushing for financial education to be made compulsory in all schools starting from primary age by responding to the Curriculum Review ✍ The curriculum doesn’t add up. It’s time to #makemoneycount Thank you to everyone who took the time to attend our event last night, in particular to our guest speakers Louise Hill Olamide Majekodunmi and our host Gagan Mohindra. It really does take a village so support is everything 🙏 #curriculumreview #lifeskills #genalpha #genz #financialeducation #levellingup

💰 #DoOneThing this Talk Money Week! 💰 As Talk Money Week kicks off today, this year, we’re embracing its theme of "Do One Thing". Why talk about money? Because children’s money habits are formed by the age of seven! Discussing money helps children build the skills they need for a secure future. So, if you do one thing this week, have a conversation about money at home. Check out our blog below which includes some easy ways to do this, whether that’s how to broach budgeting or helping kids understand the concept of delayed gratification. https://lnkd.in/epZDUxwc Money and Pensions Service #TalkMoneyWeek #FinancialLiteracy #FinancialEducation

🎉 Big congratulations to 7-year-old William from Winchester, one of the winners of our Creative Club card design competition, with his hand-drawn dragon design, as featured in the Hampshire Chronicle 🎨 William's design was selected as the winner for the seven and under category and his card is now available to order in-app. Thank you to all the talented young designers who participated, we we were blown away by your creativity! ✨ #YoungCreatives #FinancialEducation #CreativityUnleashed https://lnkd.in/ejQqtgdw

We're proud to stand alongside other cross-industry businesses like Schroders Foresters Financial NatWest Cushon Legal & General and Rathbones Group Plc to support TISA UK's Financial Education Council’s call for the Government to make financial education compulsory in ALL schools as part of its upcoming Curriculum Review ❤️ This is a huge opportunity to empower the next generations with money skills for life and the more people we can get behind this the better 💪 Please sign and share our Open Letter (link in comments) to show the Government how much support is out there for financial education to be part of its Curriculum Review 🖊️ https://lnkd.in/eBwmZ8Pf #makemoneycount #lifeskills #financialeducation #curriculumreview

Great to see the innovation going on in the payments sector last night at the The Payments Association Pay360 Awards where our co-founder, Louise Hill, was a finalist in the Lifetime Achievement award 🏆 Louise didn’t walk away with the prize but, as she said; “That’s OK. I’m not done yet - there’s plenty more work to be done.” 💪 Big thanks to our hosts The Payments Association Thales Sibstar IDT Financial Services Limited ❤️ #makemoneycount #financialeducation #fintech