Personal Finance Education Group

pfeg (Personal Finance Education Group) is part of Young Enterprise. pfeg merged into Young Enterprise is 2014.[1] pfeg was founded in 2000 and supports teachers and others involved in educating young people about money.[2]

The charity provides the secretariat for the All Party Parliamentary Group on Financial Education for Young People, which in December 2011 published a report[3] calling for financial education to be included in the national curriculum. The report played an important role in helping to ensure the introduction of statutory financial education on the secondary national curriculum in England from September 2014.[4]

Since the merger with Young Enterprise, pfeg is overseen by the Young Enterprise board of trustees. The chairman is Grey Denham and the Chief Executive is Michael Mercieca.[5]

Notes

  1. ↑ "Young Enterprise » pfeg". www.young-enterprise.org.uk. Retrieved 2015-12-11.
  2. ↑ "About pfeg". pfeg.org. Retrieved 2015-12-11.
  3. ↑ Financial Education in the Curriculum, http://www.pfeg.org/sites/default/files/Doc_downloads/APPG/Financial%20Education%20%26%20the%20curriculum%20-%20Final%20report%20-%20APPG%20on%20fin%20ed%20for%20YP%20-%20Dec%2011.pdf, APPG on Financial Education for Young People, 2011
  4. ↑ "APPG Primary and Secondary Schools Strand". pfeg.org. Retrieved 2015-12-11.
  5. ↑ "Our staff". pfeg.org. Retrieved 2015-12-11.
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