Why we use stories to talk about money
Money used to leave a hand. Now it disappears.
A coin or a note used to go, and a child could watch it go. Now it's a tap, a phone, a green tick, and the moment vanishes. Children grow up watching money disappear rather than watching it get chosen. From September 2028, financial literacy becomes part of the compulsory primary curriculum for the first time. Community settings don't have to wait for that: every family's experience of money is different, some children see cash, some see cards, some see neither, we use the same words, with different ways to join in: Tap, Tap, Pause.
Choose a session for your setting
Run in your hub, library, family centre or hall. Choose the session that matches your group, or tell us and we will help you pick.
The family session
Children aged five and above, with the adults who bring them. Forty-five to sixty minutes, up to fifteen people. A story, followed by Tap, Tap, Pause and a chance to think and talk about a choice. Needs and wants, then what to do with money once you have it, with sharing held as an invitation rather than an instruction. Shaped around what your families need, not delivered identically everywhere.
The tailored session
Open to everyone, at any age. Where your community has a specific thing it is trying to shift, we build the session around that rather than around our standard shape. Older children, teenagers, adults on their own, mixed groups, a staff team, or a single family in a quiet room. Tell us who is coming and what you want them to leave with. We tell you honestly whether we are the right people for it, and say no if we are not.
Session prices
- £350One session, up to 15 people, 45 to 60 minutes.
- £600Half a day, two groups.
- £800A full day, three groups.
- Funded-contract extensionSupported journey for five households, available within an already-mobilised funded contract. Ask us.
- From £450Built around you, a bespoke visit.
Prices shown are for Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent. Further afield, ask and we will quote. Materials beyond 30 children, travel further afield, and an additional facilitator are quoted separately. A written quotation follows within five working days.
Would someone else be paying? See how funding a series works →
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What a session is like
- A story, then the Tap, Tap, Pause routineTap, Tap, Pause. A moment to think and talk about a choice, for children aged five and above and the grown-ups who bring them.
- Nothing to buy and nothing to prepareYou just come. We bring the facilitator, the story and the materials.
- No child is ever asked about their family's moneyEvery situation belongs to a story character, so nobody has to reveal anything.
Funding a community series: scope, prices and enquiry
Would someone else be paying for it?
For councils, commissioners, funders and responsible businesses. Fund an agreed session or series and families can take part free, the venue pays nothing, and your funding is what makes that possible.
What funding buys
- A defined series in trusted local venuesYou choose the ward, the locality or the setting type. We deliver in places families already go.
- One consolidated delivery and feedback reportAggregate attendance, host feedback and family feedback. Written to be usable in your own reporting.
- Unnamed counts onlyWe never receive a register, an attendance list or any child's name.
- Nothing branded at the childrenNo sponsor branding in the room or on anything a child takes home. Credit sits on our communications and in the reporting.
- Outcomes mapped for a bidWe have mapped this ourselves to four National Lottery Community Fund outcomes under "communities help children and young people thrive".
Commissioning a pilot rather than sponsoring one? Ask for the commissioning brief: need, offer, outcomes, evaluation and costs in one document.
You provide the room
We bring everything else. Facilitator-led sessions of 45 to 60 minutes, children and their grown-ups together, with one or two of our facilitators alongside your own staff. Children stay with their grown-up throughout, you stay responsible for safeguarding your attendees and venue, and we are never alone with a child.
Nobody is asked about their money
No child is asked to compare what they own, and no adult what is in their account. Every activity works with stars, stickers or pennies.
One honest boundary
This is preventative money education, not regulated debt or benefits advice. For that we always signpost to Citizens Advice, StepChange or MoneyHelper.