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What Works grant funded projects

What Works grant funded projects

The organisations below have received a grant from the Money Advice Service’s What Works Fund to evaluate their activity, and a brief note on each project can be found here . As each project completes its evaluation, their final report will be uploaded to the Evidence Hub - and a link to that report will be added below.

Wave 1 (finishing by Summer 2018)

1625 Independent People

A2 Dominion Housing

Advice NI - final reports: Managing Chang£ - What Works? and Building Resilience in Retirement project

Advising Communities - final report: Money Well

Age Concern Tyneside South

Age Cymru: Swansea Bay - final report: What Works evaluation report

Age UK

Age Scotland - final report: Money Matters

Anglia Care Trust- final report: Money advice service for survivors of domestic abuse

Auriga Services - final report: Financial capability of renal and inherited metabolic disorder patients

Birmingham Settlement - final report: What Works evaluation report

CAB Basingstoke - final report: What Works evaluation report

CAB Merton & Lambeth

CAB North Liverpool

CAB Southwark - final report: What Works evaluation report

Campaign for Learning

Carers UK - final report: Thinking Ahead resource

Centrepoint Soho- final report: Moneywise

Changing Lives - final report: BEAT 2

The Children’s Society

Church Urban Fund - Just Finance Foundation - final report: Cash Smart Credit Savvy

Citizens Advice

Clarion Housing Group

Community Housing Aid - final report: What Works for You

Community Links - final report: What Works evaluation report

Cornwall Rural Community Charity - final report: Get £ F+IT

Fife Council

Gingerbread - final report: Family Finance Project (FFP) evaluation

Good Things Foundation- final report: Changing behaviour around online transactions

Groundwork West Midlands

Institute for Employment Studies - final report: What Works evaluation report

Leicester Ageing Together - final report: Delivering community financial advice workshops

The Mix

The Money Charity - final report: RCT evaluation of The Money Charity’s workshops in Schools

Move On

MyBnk - final report: Money Works

National Learning and Work Institute - final report: Supported rent flexibility

National Numeracy - final report: Improving numeracy to increase financial capability

National Skills Academy for Financial Services - final reports: Get Ready pensions tool and Life, Money, Action!

National Youth Agency - final report: My Money Now

Open University

Queen’s University Belfast - final report: Money Matters

Royal Society for Blind Children

School of Hard Knocks - final report: SOHK financial capability project

Shelter Scotland- final report: Healthy Finances pilot

Tenovus Cancer Care - final report: Evaluation of the Tenovus Money Advice Service

TISA

Toynbee Hall - final report: Senior money mentors

Wakefield Council

Wales Co-Operative Centre

West Kent Housing Association- final report: Working with apprentices and trainees

Young Enterprise - final report: The impact of training teachers on the financial capability of their students

Young Scot - final report: SaveStudySpend

Youth Access - final report: Money Matters

Youth Cymru - final report: Money Smart / Arain Smart

Wave 2 (finishing by Spring 2019)

East London Business Alliance

Money Matters

Quaker Social Action

Ravensbourne University London

Salford Foundation

Tax Volunteers

Warwick Business School

Learning from the What Works Fund

As the fund progresses, we will be sharing key learning for practitioners from our What Works grantees and their projects. Click here, or use the button on the right-hand side, to find out more - including presentations and notes from our series of What Works Webinars, and our National Workshop.