{"alias":"newsItem","byline":"","standfirst":"The Scout Association and HSBC UK are today launching a new key aspect to their partnership, mobilising a network of more than 200 trained HSBC UK employee volunteers to help Beaver and Cub Scouts build important financial literacy skills for a changing world.","content":{"layouts":[{"type":"singleColumn","areas":[{"items":[{"gridType":"gridImageBlock","gtmId":"","gtmClass":"","image":"/media/yb1ibc20/hsbc-money-skills-scouts-programme.jpg","width":7360,"height":4912,"altText":"A group of Beavers in uniform sitting on the floor with HSBC Money Skills volunteers.","caption":"","link":null},{"gridType":"RichTextBlock","content":"\u003Cp\u003EToday 75 young people will attend a workshop in Normanby Hall Country Park in Scunthorpe, where they will take part in a range of Money Skills activities over the course of the day and earn their Beavers Money Skills badge. The event will be run by 16 HSBC UK volunteers supported by Scout volunteers.\u003C/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EHSBC UK\u2019s network of volunteers is anticipated to reach over 14,500 Beaver Scout Colonies and Cub Scout Packs across the UK over the next few years, visiting weekly meetings and running one day workshops from Glasgow to Belfast to the South Coast of England.\u0026nbsp;\u003C/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe new volunteering programme comes after Scouts worked with HSBC UK to develop their Money Skills Activity Badge; the first of its kind, more than 150,000 young people have earned their Money Skills Activity Badge since 2021. \u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ENatalie Gregoire-Skeete, Head of Sustainability UK, HSBC UK said:\u003C/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0027Contactless, digital and mobile banking are increasing the invisibility of money, making it even harder to build young people\u2019s financial confidence; indeed, research finds that more than half of children ages 6 to 10 say they don\u2019t understand money.1\u003C/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0027Financial skills are life skills, and by working together we\u2019re able to deliver engaging, high-quality sessions that will give more young people the opportunity to earn their money skills badge and build financial capabilities for the future.\u0027\u003C/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EGeorgie Howarth, Programme manager for the Scouts-HSBC UK volunteer programme, speaking at the launch said:\u003C/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0027When we launched the Money skills badge back in 2021 we knew that we had met a key need in young people\u2019s development, and this volunteering programme takes the delivery of these skills to another level.\u003C/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0027Having a network of 200 skilled and enthusiastic HSBC UK volunteers working alongside our Scout leaders across the UK gives us an opportunity to help young people better develop these key life skills. It means that where Scout leaders lack confidence in subject knowledge, they can tap the local expertise available in their communities to work with them and young people won\u2019t miss out.\u003C/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0027With HSBC UK\u2019s support, we\u2019ve been able to create a volunteering programme that is truly the first of its kind, bringing an important new way to deliver these skills to tens of thousands of young people.\u0027\u003C/p\u003E","gtmId":"","gtmClass":""}]}],"config":null}]},"searchDescription":null,"pageType":null,"location":null,"versionDate":"18 November 2024","reviewDate":null,"furtherReading":[],"relatedLinks":[{"caption":"","title":"Beavers Money Skills badge","url":"/beavers/activity-badges/money-skills/","newWindow":false},{"caption":"","title":"Cubs Money Skills badge","url":"/cubs/activity-badges/money-skills/","newWindow":false},{"caption":"","title":"Money Skills programme","url":"/volunteers/running-your-section/money-skills/","newWindow":false}],"id":82931,"nodeName":"Scouts HSBC UK programme money skills","title":"Scouts launches national volunteering programme with HSBC UK to help more young people learn key money skills","type":"newsItem","image":{"url":"/media/12108/fdl-hp.jpg?width=800\u0026height=450\u0026v=1dab8e1b20252a0","caption":"Scouts purple logo","type":"jpg","size":93039,"width":1268,"height":664,"altText":"An image of a purple background showing the white Scouts logo"},"assets":null,"headerOptions":{"headerTitle":"Scouts launches national volunteering programme with HSBC UK to help more young people learn key money skills","headerSubTitle":null,"headerCta":null,"headerCtaText":null,"headerCtaLink":null,"headerBackgroundColour":null,"showSEOImage":false,"headerBackgroundImage":null,"quickLinks":null},"subHeader":"Scouts and HSBC UK are mobilising a network of 200 HSBC UK employee volunteers to help Beaver and Cub Scouts build financial literacy skills","browserTitle":null,"silktide":"eyJjbXMiOiJVbWJyYWNvIiwiZWRpdG9yVXJsIjoiaHR0cHM6Ly9wcm9kLWNtcy5zY291dHMub3JnLnVrLy91bWJyYWNvIy9jb250ZW50L2NvbnRlbnQvZWRpdC84MjkzMSJ9","canonicalUrl":"https://www.scouts.org.uk/news/2024/november/scouts-hsbc-uk-programme-money-skills/"}