Partner with WizeUp

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Working with WizeUp has been a great experience and has allowed us as a business reach another area and demographic of our community here in Penrith. 

Being able to actively support financial education is essential for a Mutually owned organisation like Penrith Building Society to be able to fulfil its social purpose to its members and the community it serves.

Tim Bowen, CEO 

At GreenSky Wealth we are extremely happy with our association with WizeUp President Ed Flack and Wizeup. The schools we sponsor, Reepham and Anglo European, are delighted with the tailored workshops their students are getting and are already rebooking for next year.

WizeUp delivers financial education directly to the students, in plain no-nonsense English, giving them all the knowledge and tools, they will need to navigate the big financial decisions they will be making moving forward. 

Why no one else is doing this we simply don’t understand. If each company sponsored 1 or 2 local schools our children would be so much better equipped to avoid costly mistakes. 

Keep up the great work!

Andy Crawford, Director 

Supporting our local community is embedded in our mutual ethos at Buckingham Building Society. Every year our members nominate a charity at our AGM to receive funds from our foundation.  

As a Society we also support numerous local causes and events and our staff regularly take part in volunteering and fundraising.

“Working with WizeUp is an exciting venture for the Society and we are delighted to be partnering with WizeUp to bring financial education to secondary school children in our local area. We believe that it is a valuable life skill to understand the benefits of good personal finance management. " 

Linda Reed, Operations Manager

"I really enjoyed watching you in action – and it looks like the students did as well. I’d like to thank you for the hard work that you have put into this. I really hope that it makes a difference to the students at the schools that we are supporting."

Colin Field, CEO 

"Ed Flack’s passion and his bespoke, down to earth sessions provide essential life skill education to the students who are lucky enough to experience it.  The content is real, relevant, honest and received with enthusiasm and interest. As a mutual, community is at the heart of everything we do and Saffron Building Society is delighted to be funding these financial awareness sessions to the next generation in our local communities."

Claire Hunnable, Community Business Partner

In 2019, Bath Building Society launched an initiative to deliver financial education to sixth form pupils with the aim of better preparing young adults for their forthcoming moves into work and college by teaching them the basics of such things as taxation, budgeting, saving and renting accommodation.  

"This academic year we will be proudly working with up to 12 primary, secondary and SEND schools. WizeUp have  been brilliant and has worked with our local schools to give them the financial education programmes that they require."  

Tiffany Hardie‑Albutt​, Communications Manager

The Mansfield Building Society has been serving customer and member needs since 1870 and our aim is to remain a safe and trusted independent mutual organisation.  

We strive to be highly regarded, friendly and efficient in helping our customers and members save for the future and buy their own homes.  As well as being a secure haven for savings, we offer a clear and transparent range of mortgage solutions to help people fulfil their individual housing needs.  Our organisation governance means that as a mutual building society we actively support the local community through sponsorship, charitable support and the direct engagement of our staff.

Newbury Building Society is an independent, mutual society that has been serving the community for 165 years, providing mortgages and savings for its members.  We are proud of being a mutual organisation, which means we are owned by our members, and we are committed to creating long-term value for them.

We've partnered up with WizeUp Financial Education charity to deliver virtual and in-person classroom sessions to secondary schools throughout our branch communities.

The workshops empower young people to understand and manage their finances as they grow, as well as making financial education simple for teachers.

Eldon Financial Planners are a chartered financial planning firm in the North-East offering a unique service and genuine advice. 

Set up in 2002 by three like minded Directors, aspiring to become the North East’s premier fee based personal financial planning practice, Eldon has steadily grown by personal recommendation and professional referral.  

We believe financial education equips young people with the tools to develop good money habits in preparation for adulthood, and we are passionate about supporting the provision of impactful financial education workshops in our area.

Earl Shilton Building Society is entirely focused on our members and the communities and issues that matter to them.  

Through World Wars, pandemics, political, cultural and technological changes we’ve stood strong.  We treasure our legacy and continue to look forward in order to support our members for generations to come.  

Darlington Building Society is a mutual at heart, putting our members first and have been since 1856.We have nine branches spread across the North East, County Durham, and North Yorkshire. 

The branches are supported by our on-line banking service, Darlingtonline. We offer a range of savings accounts and mortgages, to help our members save for the future and realise the dream of owning their own home. Being mutual, means our profits are turned into lower mortgage rates, higher savings rates, and support for local charities.  We are improving the lives of our members and communities through supporting home ownership and encouraging saving.

Delivering financial training to young people in our operating area is a key priority for us, so we’re delighted to be working with an organisation that has built up a first-class reputation in this specialised area of education. 

"With the cost-of-living crisis, it has never been more important to help the younger generation gain a better understanding of how to manage their money and avoid debt, while also improving their life-skills and employability. “Our aim is to make a consistent impact in schools, complementing the work we already carry out with literacy, and we hope this will become a long-term partnership in the way we deliver financial education."

Louise Thorpe, Distribution Director

The Vernon is a mutual building society. This means that instead of having shareholders, we're run for the benefit of our members who collectively own the business - our savings and mortgage customers.

As a mutual, we invest our profits back into the Society in order to give our members the best rates and service we can. This also enables us to support local charities and community groups within the Stockport area; something we're incredibly passionate about.

We want to give back to the community all year round and we want to do it with the help of our Members, funding not-for-profits, like WizeUp, through our Community Stars programme which celebrates worthy causes within our community.

Unity Trust Bank aim to be the bank of choice for all socially-minded organisations in the UK. Through safe, sustainable growth, they support their customers to deliver social, economic or environmental change in their communities while also meeting their commercial needs.

UTB provide sustainable banking services to businesses that share their principles of acting with integrity and only take deposits or provide finance to organisations where there is an alignment to their values and where impact can be measured. 

As Unity grows, their commitment to the ‘double bottom line’ continues to support customers to deliver positive change in their communities.