Personal Finance Education Group

pfeg (Personal Finance Education Group) is a UK educational charity focused on equipping young people with confidence, skills and knowledge in personal finance and money management. It was founded in 2000 and supports teachers and others involved in educating young people about money.

pfeg runs several financial education programmes and is the charity behind 'My Money Week', an annual event in schools in which young people take part in financial education lessons and activities. From 2006 to 2011 pfeg was a leading partner in delivering “Learning Money Matters”, the schools strand of the national strategy on financial capability launched by the Financial Services Authority in 2004.

As an independent charity, pfeg provides a Quality Mark to badge recommended teaching resources that are published by banks and other financial companies. It describes the pfeg website as “the one stop shop for teaching personal finance”.

The charity provides the secretariat for the All Party Parliamentary Group on Financial Education for Young People, which in December 2011 published a report[1] calling for financial education to be included in the national curriculum.

The chairman of pfeg is Otto Thoresen, chief executive of the Association of British Insurers. Its chief executive is Tracey Bleakley.

Notes

  1. ↑ Financial Education in the Curriculum, http://www.pfeg.org/sites/default/files/Doc_downloads/APPG/Financial%20Education%20%26%20the%20curriculum%20-%20Final%20report%20-%20APPG%20on%20fin%20ed%20for%20YP%20-%20Dec%2011.pdf, APPG on Financial Education for Young People, 2011

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