You want to do a Community Challenge Want

You want to do a Community Challenge? Want run a project in your local community that helps people understand more about money issues and get £ 400 to do it? @Money. For. Life. UK

So you want to do a Community Challenge? This Community Challenge Guide will help you come up with an idea, plan and have a few tips to help you out along the way Plan Do Review Before you start planning make sure you’ve got lots of pens, paper, snacks/brain food and a great team!

PLAN 1. IDENTIFY: PICK YOUR TARGET AUDIENCE, TOPIC AND TYPE OF PROJECT. EXAMPLE: TEENAGERS USING PAY DAY LOANS 2. BRAINSTORM: COME UP WITH AS MANY IDEAS AS POSSIBLE - WRITE, DRAW, USE POST-IT NOTES TO RECORD THEM ALL. REMEMBER: KEEP IT POSITIVE AND GIVE EVERYONE A CHANCE TO CONTRIBUTE 3. DECIDE: TIME TO PICK WHICH IDEA YOU’RE GOING TO MAKE HAPPEN! PUT A TIME LIMIT ON THIS OR IT COULD TAKE ALL DAY TO DECIDE. TRY A SECRET VOTE IF YOU’RE CHOOSING BETWEEN A FEW GREAT IDEAS.

Youth Led Created and delivered by young people Reflective What went well and what would you do differently next time? Challenging Social Action Checklist Involves a new skill or something you haven’t done before Is your project all of these things? Sustainable How will your project continue to help others Relevant Addresses a current money/finance issue

NEED SOME IDEAS? Run a campaign to raise awareness of a current issue in your community e. g people using pay day loans before Christmas and getting into debt Create a Podcast or Radio show and share it on social media Helping people that find it difficult to access banking e. g help an elderly group access online banking Work with another community group to make a business, donate the profits to charity

Your Project Aims - checklist ü Audience: Who am I trying to target? Who needs help with this issue? ü Theme: Which Money Masterclass topic am I covering? Is this about budgeting or sharing saving advice or talking about loans? ü Type: Do you want to run an event or make a podcast, run a campaign or create a money saving scheme with local businesses? Make sure your vision is clear!

DO • Make sure you tweet, blog, vlog about your Community Challenge and share it with us @Moneyforlife. UK #Mf. LCC Remember your job isn’t to give out advice, the last page is full of organisations and charities you could point people to for more information and help. Talk to your youth worker if you’re not sure about something!

Project Management Sharing Budgeting Successful Project Inspiring and Engagement Promoting People Management

Project Management is about having a plan! • Knowing what you want to do. • When you want to do it. • How much it will cost. • What you hope to achieve.

Who will do what? Have a look at the tasks that need to be done. What could you do? Why would you be good at doing this?

Project Management Keep focused Have a plan and assign tasks Be flexible Cover all bases, to reduce the rick of things not going to plan.

Examples

Communication & Marketing • Social Media: Make events, come up with a ‘#’, create a social media storm around your campaign and event • Get in touch with your local MP and/or councilor • Promotion In your welcome pack you will be provided with some guides and templates for sharing your project with the wider community, press and local politicians!

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REVIEW Once you’ve finished the community challenge get your group together to celebrate and de-brief. You could ask the team these questions… • Their favourite moment from the project • What they learnt • One good thing that someone else in the team did • What they would do differently next time

Once you’ve finished the Community Challenge you can get £ 200 more funding for your organisation by sending us back the 3 things below. Any photo’s or videos from the prep and actual Community Challenge Report - a write up of what you did, what happened and some of the best bits! All receipts Send them to Moneyforlife@ukyouth. org

Research These organisations can help with your research and are also great places to signpost your community to for more help • Money for Life – www. moneyforlife. org. uk • Money Advice Service – www. money • Citizens Advice – www. citizensadvice. org. uk • Gam. Care – www. gamcare. org. uk

Applications Make sure you have the following before you apply: A team - with 4 -10 people the majority aged 16 -25 and a youth organisation to support you A project idea – that tackles a money issue in the 2. BRAINSTORM: COME UP WITH AS MANY IDEAS AS community for a specific audience POSSIBLE - WRITE, DRAW, UE POST-IT NOTES TO RECORD ATHEM plan. ALL. – what do you want to achieve and how will you achieve it REMEMBER: KEEP IT POSITIVE AND GIVE EVERYONE A CHANCE ATO CONTRIBUTE budget – letting us know how you’ll spend your grant A time frame – letting us know when the project will take 3. DECIDE: TIME TO PICK WHICH IDEA YOU’RE GOING TO MAKE place and completed HAPPEN! PUT A TIME LIMIT ON THIS OR IT COULD TAKE ALL DAY Go to: TO DECIDE. TRY A SECRET VOTE IF YOU’RE CHOOSING BETWEEN A FEW GREAT https: //www. moneyforlife. org. uk/get-involved/ IDEAS.

Applications Once you have your team your project idea, plan and the support of your youth worker, It’s time to Apply!!! 2. BRAINSTORM: COME UP WITH AS MANY IDEAS AS POSSIBLE - WRITE, DRAW, UE POST-IT NOTES TO RECORD Go to: THEM ALL. REMEMBER: KEEP IT POSITIVE AND GIVE EVERYONE A CHANCE https: //www. moneyforlife. org. uk/get-involved/ TO CONTRIBUTE 3. DECIDE: TIME TO PICK WHICH IDEA YOU’RE GOING TO MAKE HAPPEN! PUT A TIME LIMIT ON THIS OR IT COULD TAKE ALL DAY TO DECIDE. TRY A SECRET VOTE IF YOU’RE CHOOSING BETWEEN A FEW GREAT IDEAS.