Stormzy Collabs with HSBC UK

Mar 10, 2022

Stormzy’s #Merky Books and HSBC UK have joined forces to create a new in-person and live-streamed school event series on financial wellbeing and entrepreneurialism. Alongside IRL and livestream events, #Merky Books are also distributing resource packs developed with HSBC UK’s financial education team and guided by the topics and themes covered in the series.

So What?

To take action on ageing we need to develop interventions earlier. Why wait until your 30s, 40s or 50s to get interested in actively managing your finances and planning for the future?

The same goes for legacies. Why market them to people in their 70s and 80s who may have already made their decisions? Why not actively target those thinking about marking their first will in their 30s or 40s? Why not give kids and teens the knowledge now to plan for a better financial future?

Financial wellness guru Bola Sol, who’s partnering on the How to Save It series, said: “My hope for the future generation is that they seize the opportunity to learn about finance at a young age. There’s so much accessible information about money online, TikTok is thriving on it. But really it should be schools introducing the subject, they should learn by example and empower their students to know the real value of money.”