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National Student Money Week 2025
12 March 2025
Do you want to ensure you’re receiving all the funding you’re entitled to? Want to know more about how you can manage your money in a sustainable way? Need tips on how to spend less and save more?
Established by the National Association of Student Money Advisers (NASMA), National Student Money Week takes places from 3 to 7 March 2025. This year the theme is ‘Survive and Thrive: Building Financial Resilience’.
UCL Student Funding Office, along with other National Student Money Week partners, has organised events over the week to help you learn more about making your money go further, understanding your finances, and finding alternative avenues for postgraduate funding!
Join us on campus on Wednesday 5 and Thursday 6 March, and enjoy free refreshments while you increase your understanding of finances!
We’ll also be hosting some fun activities virtually. Test your knowledge by attempting our online money quiz, with a £50 prize for the winner. Simply answer these five questions correctly before Wednesday, 5 March to be in with a chance to win!
Or send us your own finance queries, which will be answered by our Student Funding Manager Josh Du Sautoy on the UCL Student Funding Instagram account on Friday, 7 March. Either submit a request through AskUCL as a funding query, or send a message through the Instagram channel. Further details are available below.
On Campus Events
- How to get rich slowly and build your wealth | Wednesday 5 March 2:30pm | Gustave Tuck Lecture Theatre
Ever wanted to learn the secrets of money management? Join Blackbullion founder and CEO Vivi Friedgut as she reveals her top tips for getting rich slowly and building your wealth.Blackbullion is a dedicated financial platform to help students master money management and build skills to help them manage their finances.
During the talk, don’t miss exclusive Blackbullion freebies, and free refreshments!
- Personal Finance Workshop | Thursday 6 March – private 30 minute appointments available 10am – 4pm | Student Centre
Do you have questions about your credit score, or want to sit down with someone and discuss your financial situation? Perhaps you want to learn more about applying for scholarships, financial assistance schemes or postgraduate funding?
The UCL Student Funding team are offering personal finance workshops in the Student Centre from 10am until 4pm.
Booking are open now. Email Josh Du Sautoy to book your private, 30-minute session to sit with a funding advisor from UCL to undertake a comprehensive look at your finances.
- How to fund your postgraduate studies | Thursday 6 March (3pm) | Bentham House, 124 Gideon Schreier
Are you thinking about applying for postgraduate study, but concerned about how to fund it?
Join Luke Blaxill from GradFunding as he discusses different postgraduate funding opportunities, and explores what schemes are available to secure postgraduate funding.
Free refreshments will be provided.
Virtual Events
- Interactive question and answer sessions with Josh Du Sautoy, UCL Student Funding Manager | Friday 7 March | UCL Student Funding Instagram
Do you have a question or a query about your finances you’d like to know more about?
Join us for an interactive session on the UCL Student Funding Instagram channel with Student Funding Manager Josh Du Sautoy. We’re giving you the chance to submit your questions through Ask UCL as a funding query or as an Instagram message, and Josh will answer your questions on Friday!
- Credit Score Online Workshop | Friday 7 March 11am–12pm | With Experian and UCL's Students' Union
What is a credit score? How does it work, and why is it important? Join Experian and the Money and Budgeting team from UCL's Students' Union for this virtual session all about credit scores.
This workshop offers an exciting opportunity to increase your financial capability, and aims to provide an understanding of the importance of credit and actionable tips to help improve your credit report over time.
Please sign up for the event in advance. The session will be on Microsoft Teams, and ticketholders will receive the workshop joining details by email.
- Test your money knowledge quiz | Deadline: Wednesday 5 March 5pm | Virtual quiz online
Be in with a chance of winning a £50 voucher by entering our money knowledge quiz! Showcase your understanding of stocks and savings by answering the five quiz questions correctly to be in with a chance to win! The winner will be announced on our UCL Student Funding Instagram channel on Friday, 7 March.
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