About Us
What is The Grown-Up School? 🎓
Did you know? 87% of British people don’t feel like they were adequately prepared for life as an adult, saying they weren’t taught the life skills they needed before leaving full-time education. (Metro News)
The Grown-Up School is an educational business dedicated to solving this issue, offering 200+ free online “grown-up lessons”, school workshops, and a range of multimedia content to teach life skills.
What we do 👩🏫
1. We create free content ✍️
“How to grow up” – the free online guide 📚
Life doesn’t come with a handbook– so here’s our survival guide. 🏕️
If you don’t know what you need to know as an adult, you’ve come to the right place.
We’ve written enough completely free content to publish over 4 books, explaining how to look after your:
- money 💷
- career 💼
- relationships 🤝
- wellbeing 🧠
- home 🏡
- student life 🎓
and more!
2. We support schools 🏫
School workshops 🏫
There are so many resources available to teach life skills, but schools often lack time and resource to comprehensively teach life skills alongside the ever-growing demands of the curriculum.
We make things easy for schools by offering workshops that include:
- 5 hours (full day) of teaching from an award-winning educator and entrepreneur, who previously worked as financial product manager looking after £7.6 billion 👩🏫
- All resources provided, so schools don’t have to do any preparation e.g. worksheets, paper, pens, whiteboards ✏️
- High-energy, entertaining, and memorable learning experiences like no other. 🤹♀️
- Groundbreaking resources and workshop formats e.g. £14,000 in handmade play cash for students to experiment with during the workshop 💷
- Enhanced DBS certification for our facilitators, managed via the DBS update service 🛡️
- All associated workshop administration e.g. booking, invoicing, payment collection 📄
- Content development and planning time ⌚
How students benefit:
- Gain skills: Students gain hands-on, practical financial and life skills.
- Meet role models: Students are given the opportunity to meet professional role models within our business sponsor colleague networks.
- Explore career paths: Students are able to explore various career paths and understand the financial implications of different professions.
- Have fun: Students can engage in a high-energy, entertaining, and memorable learning experience like no other.
- Independent living: Students can receive valuable insights into the costs associated with independent living, helping to prepare them for the future.
- Personal finance: Students can learn strategies to avoid common financial pitfalls/mistakes to make informed choices regarding personal finance.
“Sponsor a School” Workshop Programme 🤝
For schools facing financial constraints, we offer a free school workshops programme.
If schools request a free workshop on our website, we will seek funding for these workshops on their behalf via local businesses, providing an opportunity for businesses to support the financial education of students in the community.
In return for their sponsorship we offer businesses:
- Volunteering opportunities: Businesses can connect to easily accessible, high impact volunteering opportunities in schools for their colleagues. Colleagues can focus on engaging with students without delivery pressure.
- No content development requirements: Businesses can help deliver award-winning, impactful educational content, developed by experts and innovators in the educational sector. Our content is designed to make the most of volunteers, without them needing to spend time preparing content. All we need is their enthusiasm and participation to inspire students.
- Flexibilty: We’ve done the hard bit of building up school relationships, and finding out their availability, to create a programme that meets your organisation’s availability. Simply check our available workshop dates, and book your organisation in!
- Ready-made programme: The Grown-Up School workshops programme is proven to work for schools. As we all know schools are under pressure from budget constraints and resource difficulties, all of which make it very difficult for them to build and maintain business relationships. We do the hard work, and make business engagement easy for schools.
- Brand awareness: Businesses can bring their brand directly to communities, helping to support them with closing skills gaps, and overcoming budgeting struggles amidst the cost of living crisis.
- PR and press coverage opportunities: We are proud to work with ‘Cause Collective, a PR and impact agency dedicated to good causes. Sponsorship opportunities such as these workshops create opportunities to earn PR and press coverage, due to the support you are giving to Welsh communities, creating new customer opportunities.
- Lower cost, higher impact: The Grown-Up School is proud to be an efficient and cost-effective education programme, where you can deliver higher impact at a lower cost. Our work successfully competes with the impact delivered through multi-million pound investments from financial institutions.
Teacher support 💖
We understand the challenges teachers face in preparing students for life beyond the classroom. That’s why we offer free resources, advice, and support to educators.
Our aim is to enhance life skills education, making it easier for teachers to incorporate essential lessons into their curriculum.
Teachers looking for support are welcome to get in touch!
3. We solve the life skills gap 🩹
Whether it’s writing a national life skills curriculum for the UK, delivering workshops UK-wide, or developing a national TV series, we’re on a mission to close the life skills gap.
Why we started 💖
No matter what age you are, growing up is scary. 😬
One minute you’re having fun in school..
..the next you’re expected to understand everything from tax and mortgages, to health care and politics! 😭
The Grown-Up School makes “adulting lessons” free and accessible for all..
..so that everyone has an equal opportunity to become a successful grown-up. 💖
Life doesn’t come with a handbook – so here’s our survival guide. 🏕️
Why The Grown-Up School? ✨
The Grown-Up School supports wannabe grown-ups worldwide. 🌎
We are an international movement, motivating people to “grow up!” 🎓
Laura Abraham
Founder
Did you know?
Research has shown that:
87% of British people don’t feel like they were adequately prepared for life as an adult, — saying they weren’t taught the life skills they needed before leaving full-time education. (Metro News)
These are things like:
- managing money💸
- understanding relationships 🤝
- preparing for a career 💼
- looking after our wellbeing 🧠
- getting and looking after a home… 🏡
… things that have a huge bearing on someone’s potential for success in life.
Why don’t people learn life skills?
There are 2 main places where people typically learn life skills:
Schools🧑🏫
Life skills are not always covered by schools, and education systems worldwide are experiencing intense pressure following the Covid-19 pandemic.
This is changing, however there are generations of people who may have missed out on the opportunity to learn grown-up skills.
According to CBI, about 1 in 4 young adults don’t feel prepared by education for the world of work, let alone the world itself.
Parents/Guardians 👪
Surveys have also shown that nearly half of parents don’t feel equipped to teach their children important life skills.
There are also:
- 2.9 million single parent families in the UK,
- 80,000 children in care,
- 14.5 million people in poverty,
- and an estimated 8.3 million people already struggling with debt.
Should we rely on parents to “just know” how to teach life skills? 🤷♀️
Or should we expect a strained education system to change things? 😟
I don’t think so.
This is why during the Covid-19 pandemic I quit my career in finance (looking after a £7.6 billion savings portfolio) to follow my passion – teaching people grown-up skills.
To date I’ve taught life skills in schools to 1000s of young people in the highest areas of poverty in the UK, and now I’m reaching a global audience.
I have created an open-access online resource that aims to help anyone and everyone to feel more prepared for grown-up life.
I hope you’ll join me in spreading awareness of the free help offered by The Grown-Up School, by telling people to “Grow up!” 😉
Laura x
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