Student Financial Wellbeing Training

Help students build confidence for their money journey

Practical training combining money skills and behavioural insight to help students make informed decisions, take realistic next steps and connect with the support your university already offers.

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Help students understand what shapes their money choices

Knowing about money matters. But what we know does not always determine what we do.

The training brings practical financial skills together with psychology and behavioural insight. Students explore how habits, emotions, social pressure, comparison and past experiences can influence their choices.

The emphasis is on giving capable young adults space to understand those influences, reflect on what matters to them and decide how to act for themselves.

Six learning areas for smarter everyday money choices

Each area links daily money skills with an understanding of financial behaviour, personal action and the right support.

Understand what shapes money decisions

Explore how habits, emotions, experiences and social influences affect financial behaviour, helping students reflect on their own choices.

Make more considered money choices

Practise pausing, questioning information and recognising risks so students can approach financial decisions with greater confidence.

Build everyday money skills

Develop budgeting, spending, prioritising and planning skills to help students manage everyday choices and build practical habits.

Recognise pressure and find support

Recognise when money difficulties may be developing and explore where to seek suitable help, including existing university services.

Support others with clear boundaries

Learn to listen without judgement, understand personal boundaries and help another student connect with appropriate support.

Turn learning into action

Identify realistic personal next steps so students leave with practical actions, not just more financial information.

Shape the training around your students

Students bring different experiences, priorities and responsibilities to their money decisions. Training can be adapted to reflect different student groups, courses and stages of study, keeping it relevant to their lives.

It sits alongside your existing wellbeing, money advice, hardship and peer support services, rather than replacing them, helping students connect what they learn with the support available.

Make the training part of your wider student support

Offer sessions to specific cohorts

Focus sessions on student cohorts, courses or year groups where particular financial pressures or transitions make the training especially relevant.

Build it into induction and transition

Include training in induction, transition programmes or wider wellbeing activity at key points in the academic year.

Connect it with existing services

Use sessions alongside Student Services, money advice and hardship support to explain how each service can help and how students can access it.

Involve student representatives and peer supporters

Include representatives, ambassadors and peer supporters where appropriate, helping them share clear information and signpost within their role.

Let learning inform what comes next

Use themes raised during delivery to guide future financial wellbeing activity, shape communications and inform student support priorities.

Agree a format that fits your calendar

Talk through how delivery could work around your academic year, your student groups and the support you already have in place.

Help students feel ready to seek support earlier

Knowing support exists is not always enough. Students may be unsure whether it is right for them or feel hesitant about starting a conversation.

The training can build awareness of when support could be useful and familiarity with what to expect, helping students feel more confident taking that first step before money concerns become harder to manage.

Help students put learning into practice

The aim is not simply to share more information. It is to help students consider their own choices and identify a manageable next step, whether that means reviewing a spending habit, planning for a cost or starting a conversation.

For your university, this connects financial education with student wellbeing and existing support, making the training part of a wider approach rather than a standalone session.

Support your students’ financial wellbeing

Let’s talk about how this training could fit your students and sit alongside the support you already offer. No pressure to commit.

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