pfeg (Personal Finance Education Group) is part of Young Enterprise. pfeg merged into Young Enterprise in 2014.[1] pfeg was founded in 2000 by the impressive Wendy Van Den Hende, and supports teachers and others involved in educating young people about money.[2][3]
The merger in 2014 took place as a result of pfeg, ironically for a financial education charity, facing bankruptcy under the leadership of Tracey Bleakley, now Chief Executive at Hospice UK. The charity provides the secretariat for the All Party Parliamentary Group on Financial Education for Young People, which in December 2011 published a report[4] calling for financial education to be included in the national curriculum. The report played an important role in helping to ensure the introduction of statutory financial education on the secondary national curriculum in England from September 2014.[5]
Since the merger with Young Enterprise, pfeg is overseen by the Young Enterprise board of trustees. The chairman is Grey Denham and the Chief Executive is Michael Mercieca.[6]
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