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25-26 Impact Report

Money Ready (formerly MyBnk) is a charity creating a financially fluent population through programmes in schools and communities across all four UK nations. This is its 25-26 Impact Report, the second year of its Money: A Language for Life strategy. The report states it is a registered charity in England and Wales (1123791) and Scotland (SC050175). Contact email is the general info@ address from the website; no named Head of Fundraising or Director was found. Source: Money Ready Impact Report 2025-26 PDF, retrieved Oct 2026.

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About

Expert-led financial education in schools and communities for ages 4 to 40; the Change the Game primary schools programme; young adult and adult courses; Understanding Work and Money days; Freddie's Programme, a six-week paid work experience scheme; Brummie, Wee (Scotland) and Pathway (London) bursaries; regional hubs across England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland

Key Metrics

Key Metric 1 Supported 66,357 learners through its financial education programmes in 2025/26, a 12% increase on 2024/25: 55,466 primary and secondary learners in schools and 10,891 young adult and adult learners
Key Metric 2 Delivered 3,638 programmes; among learners aged 16+, 74% improved their financial knowledge and 68% had greater confidence in managing money
Key Metric 3 Year 3 of a seven-year randomised controlled trial of Change the Game in primary schools (King's College London Policy Institute, September 2025) found percentage-point improvements of +16.8 in financial ability, +5.6 in financial knowledge and +3.6 in financial mindset versus schools without the programme

Key Outcomes

  • Merged with RedSTART Educate in September 2025, extending its reach from age 4 to 40 under a new Schools Programme and Delivery Directorate
  • The primary membership model reached 90 schools across London and Suffolk, reaching nearly 18,000 children
  • In the Change the Game trial, 94% of teachers said the programme was straightforward to deliver and 90% enjoyed running the activities with their pupils

Geography

UK-Wide

Impact Snapshot
Key Metric 1
440,000+ young people aged 4-18 active members across 7,000 Groups
Key Metric 2
140,000 volunteers supporting the movement across the UK
Key Metric 3
373 Sections opened or re-energised in England between April 2024 and March 2025
0.3% overall growth in young people (ages 4-18), driven by 31% increase in Squirrel Scouts (5,200 young people)
Impact Snapshot
Key Metric 1
55,000 foster carers and 370 fostering service providers as members across the UK
Key Metric 2
45 new Fostering Friendly Employers recruited, bringing the scheme to over 680,000 employees across the UK
Key Metric 3
95 Fostering Wellbeing Pioneers in Wales offering peer support and mentoring to fellow foster carers
191 children and young people engaged in outdoor adventure weeks through the Fostering Attainment and Achievement programme in Northern Ireland
Impact Snapshot
Key Metric 1
63,023 individuals reached: 62,014 children/teens and 1,009 parents/educators
Key Metric 2
162 presenting schools and 20 districts/organisations
Key Metric 3
43 training/outreach sessions; 737 educators/community partners and 266 parents supported
49% of students applied a taught skill in their own lives.