Promoting financial awareness to students may not be the easiest task in the world, but now more than ever, it’s essential that students stand on their own two feet financially, and understand the implications of their financial decisions. Adding expensive overdrafts to a debt mountain of loans may feel like something to be worried about later, but debt can add up to a big burden for later life, or worse, if spending and debt get out of control.
Full marks then, to Barclays for extending its already huge and wide-reaching Money Skills programme - a programme designed to educate the underpriviledged and the needy about financial management – into colleges, to help their students.
Student life can be stressful enough without money worries, and out of control debt can have a marked impact on health, on the ability to study effectively, and most important of all on college drop-out rates. Barclays Money Skills weeks provide important lessons, for student life and for the life of work that follows.
Wild West are helping Barclays promote their Money Skills programme and in particular their Money Skills weeks, through promotional work like that illustrated here.