Financial education charity wins national award

11 June 2010

pfeg (Personal Finance Education Group), an independent charity that helps schools to plan and teach personal finance to ensure that all school leavers have the confidence, skills and knowledge to deal with financial matters, has won one of the most prestigious accolades to be awarded in the UK charity sector at The Charity Awards 2010.

pfeg beat three other charities to win the Education and training award for the free support, resources and expert consultancy it offers to teachers, school leadership teams and local authorities helping to ensure that all children from 4-19 are educated in money matters, and for its work with government, opinion formers and key bodies to influence education policy. CEO Wendy Van Den Hende collected the award at a gala dinner at London’s Grosvenor House Hotel last night in front of 1,000 of the charity world’s most senior representatives and celebrity guests including Jo Brand, Greta Scacchi, Lynda Bellingham, Jon Snow and Peter Bowles, who presented awards in 10 separate categories.

Other winners on the night included The Family Planning Association, for its All About Us project – an initiative to provide information on sexual health, relationships and well-being to people with learning disabilities; The Children’s Trust, a national charity based in Surrey, that provides care, education, therapy and rehabilitation to children with multiple disabilities and Read International, a small, innovative charity which collects unwanted books from secondary schools in the UK and redistributes them to schools in Tanzania. Community Service Volunteers, the UK’s leading volunteering and training charity, won the award for Overall excellence in charity management and Julia Unwin, Director of the Joseph Rowntree Foundation, picked up the Outstanding leadership award.

Daniel Phelan, organiser of the Charity Awards 2010 comments:

"Over the years many wonderful charities have been recognised by the Charity Awards, showing how much fantastic work takes place within the sector. What the winning charities all have in common is their ability to turn innovation, passion and vision into an effective project or organisation demonstrating considerable impact. It’s vital that we acknowledge these achievements, which is why I’m delighted pfeg has won the Education and training award. It is a fantastic organisation and the award is thoroughly deserved. I congratulate everyone involved."

The Charity Awards 2010 is organised by Charity Finance, the leading business publication for the voluntary sector. The distinguished panel of judges includes John Low CBE, chief executive of the Charities Aid Foundation, Maeve Sherlock OBE, former chief executive of the Refugee Council, Dame Jo Williams, former chief executive of Mencap, Paul Winter, chief executive of The Leadership Trust, and Dame Mary Marsh, founding Director of the Clore Social Leadership Programme and former Chief Executive of the NSPCC. The winning charities are chosen for specific initiatives which have improved the delivery of their charitable objectives and which demonstrate outstanding examples of best practice from which other charities can learn.

The Charity Awards is sponsored by the Charities Aid Foundation, The Leadership Trust and The Times

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