Citizens Advice Allerdale, Citizens Advice Copeland, and Whitehaven, Egremont & District Credit Union deliver workshops and training sessions to young people aged 11 to 18, covering topics including managing debt, ways to save and banking basics.
The initiative is part of the Financial Wellbeing programme, a strand of Transforming West Cumbria, funded through the Sellafield Ltd Social impact multiplied (SiX) programme and delivered by Cumbria Community Foundation.
Citizens Advice Allerdale and Citizens Advice Copeland offer six free Financial Wellbeing sessions to young people in Years 10 to 13 at schools and colleges in West Cumbria.
The sessions are designed to help students build practical knowledge, and give them…