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  • Empowering the Next Generation: Financial Wellness Workshop for Young Adults 

    At Intentional Parenting, we’re thrilled to be partnering with the brilliant team at MoneyHeave to host an Online Financial Wellness Workshop specially designed for young people aged 16years and over. Whether your teen or young adult is preparing for university, starting college, finishing uni, starting formal employment, entering an apprenticeship, or figuring out how to earn and save as they go—this session is for them.

    📅 Date: 21/08/2025

    🕒 Time: 7pm-8:30pm

    📍 Location: Online (Zoom link provided upon registration)

    💷 Cost: Free (but early registration is required). Register here today.

    Why does finance matter for young people of African heritage in UK?

    Many young adults start their financial journeys with little to no guidance. Between part-time jobs, student loans, overdrafts, and peer pressure to spend, it’s easy to make choices that lead to long-term financial stress.

    This workshop offers a judgment-free, practical space to:

    -Learn the basics of budgeting, saving, and spending wisely.

    -Understand student finance, grants, and apprenticeships.

    -Build confidence in setting financial goals.

    – Discuss real-world money scenarios relevant to youth culture.

    With expert facilitation from MoneyHeave known for their culturally aware and youth-focused financial education, participants will walk away with tools they can use immediately—whether they’re buying groceries at uni or saving for their first car.

    Smart Money Strategies for young adults:

    Here are a few tips we’ll unpack during the session:

    1. Create a “Needs vs. Wants” Budget

    Prioritise rent, transport, and essentials before splurging. Use digital budgeting tools (e.g., Emma, Monzo) to track your habits.

    2. Make the Most of Student Discounts

    Use your student ID or UNiDAYS app for savings on travel, food, books, and more.

    3. Avoid High-Interest Credit Traps

    Understand how overdrafts and credit cards work before using them. Ask questions: Nothing is too basic when it comes to your money.

    4. Set Weekly Spending Limits

    Break your term’s income into weekly allowances. Keep an emergency fund—even if it’s just £50.

    5. Explore Side Hustles Carefully

    Learn how to balance work and study. Know your rights around minimum wage and working hours.

    Why Migrant Parents Should Encourage Their kids to Attend?

    For many migrant families, talking about money openly isn’t always the norm. But our children are growing up in a different financial landscape—one that requires financial literacy from a younger age.

    Here’s why your child should attend:

    ✅ Bridge the Cultural Gap: Many young people raised in the UK face unique financial pressures—especially those navigating between African cultural expectations and Western lifestyles.

    ✅Managing and dealing with black tax and the bank of Parents.

    ✅ Prevent Costly Mistakes: Mismanaging finances in early adulthood can lead to debt and stress. This session gives them a head start.

    ✅ Learn What You Didn’t Get to Learn: As migrant parents, we may not have had financial education in school. This is an opportunity to give our children what we may have missed.

    ✅ Prepare for Independence: Whether they’re living away for university or staying at home during an apprenticeship, financial independence is key to adulthood.

    ✅ Encourage Confidence, Not Fear: When young people understand money, they’re more likely to make empowered choices, ask questions, and avoid shame or secrecy around financial struggles.

    Register here

    Zoom link will be sent out on the 18th of August via email address provided on registration.

    Please share this opportunity with your child, nieces, nephews, and godchildren. A 90-minute session could set them up for a lifetime of smarter choices.

    Final Thoughts

    Empowering our young people with financial knowledge is one of the greatest gifts we can give. This isn’t just a “money talk”—it’s a legacy-building workshop rooted in practical, accessible advice.

    With MoneyHeave’s expertise and Intentional Parenting’s culturally relevant approach, this is one online session you won’t want your child to miss.

    Let’s equip the next generation to thrive financially.

    Any comments, suggestions, queries please do email info@intentionalparentinguk.org

    Here is to flourishing and impacting next generation.

    Every blessing

    Fadzi

  • Exam

    Praying and wishing all the children sitting their exams this month of May all the success they need.

    May they remember what they have revised. May they have peace and confidence in their ability. Above all, we pray that they will know that their worth isn’t measured in grades.

    We pray for the parents that they will be supportive and encouraging. May parents be realistic in their expectations. We ask that parents affirm and reassure their children. Lord let your peace, love and calmness invade our homes.

    We stand against any spirit of anxiety, worry, stress, depression, unrealistic expectations, confusion and restlessness. We push back on territorial and seasonal spirits that rise up in this season causing havoc in family life.

    We lift up our schools. May they be places of safety and learning. We ask that you empower the leaders in the schools to be attentive, available, astute and aware of the needs of the children in their schools. Give them the courage to remain open, honesty and transparent to the challenges they face in their schools. When they have done so, please help them to find help and solutions to those needs. Father, help the teachers to know and remember how powerful they are in the lives of the children. As they walk through this exam season, walk with them, with their fears, worries and anxieties. Allow them to realise the fruits of their head work.

    Thank you for our tertiary places of education; colleges, universities and apprenticeships. Help and guide these young adults in their decision making and life preparation. Remind each and everyone of them, that you KNOW their future and you want them to do well. Help them to trust you with their future. Quiten the internal battles and societal expectations. This exam period, help them in all the ways they need this month and beyond.

    Thank you Lord that you hear and answer us. Amen