MyBnk

We are an education charity building young people's knowledge skills and confidence to manage their money effectively and make enterprising choices.

We have developed a holistic and engaging approach to finance and enterprise education by putting young people at the heart of all we do.

We have created the first ever independent FSA approved banking scheme run by young people for young people providing an accessible place to save regularly and interest free loans to set up businesses. This is accompanied by high-energy learning programmes on topics such as saving and budgeting university finance and taking an enterprise idea from inception to reality.

MyBnk was founded in 2007 by Lily Lapenna who was honoured as a Young Global Leader 2011 by the World Economic Forum and also made an Ashoka Fellow in 2010 which recognises her as one of the world's leading social entrepreneurs with an innovative solution to a social problem.

We have worked with over 34000 young people aged 11 to 25 in schools colleges and youth organisations across London. We have supported some of the most disadvantaged and financially vulnerable young people on their path to financial self-sufficiency and provided them with skills that will increase their workforce potential.

Based on huge demand we have started our national and international expansion that is seeing MyBnk programmes reach young people across the UK as well as in China and Uganda.

www.mybnk.org