My Money Matters is the place to learn about how to manage your money. You can find out how to prepare and use a budget – which will help you save, borrow, insure and plan for the future. It’s not complicated, but you will need to think hard!

Start by working through the short section called Budgeting for Beginners.		When you are ready, use your new knowledge and skills to help three very different people sort out their financial affairs
When you understand how to budget you can use the online budget form to start to plan your own finances.		If you are a Citizenship teacher, or are involved with Citizenship studies in your school, then you can plan how to incorporate this site into class work or projects – and set up your Financial Forum as a class exercise.
If you are a parent you can find out how the My Money Matters website is helping your child learn about the responsible management of money.

	If you don’t understand any words we use, you can use the online Factbank – or click on the difficult words we have highlighted with the factbank icon