In Autumn '22, we launched our #ThinkBiggerThanBills campaign. The cost of living crisis hit everyone but all the advice was on cutting bills. Billions were unclaimed in benefits, for a start. #QuidsIn editor Jeff Mitchell talked through our options.
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The Quids in! Readers Club is a money guidance email service for people on low incomes. Thousands of tenants, benefit claimants and unemployed people receive regular updates. No credit card ads, just practical help and links to help out there to boost a modest budget
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In 2024, Mark was on a 7 Signs course in Bristol that showed how he could combine his skills with his desire to help others. “You identify your own skills and passions and discover how you can use those to get the job." Mark started work as a Quids in! Champion, providing money guidance to others.

Did you know that children are developing their money habits by age seven? Quids in! repeatedly asks the question: If we don't teach our kids about money, who will? (Clue: A credit card company will write to them as soon as they turn 18!) https://loom.ly/9BZ3X18

Quids in! now has a range of guides to help people on low incomes stretch their budgets. Our favourite cover is from the Food Guide - those kids' smiles say it all!!! We crowdfunded this magazine to distribute it to food banks, highlighting the ongoing issue of child hunger.
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Quids in! forged one of its first corporate partnerships with Wessex Water, who supported our A3 fold-out Budget Planner. These help readers track their finances. Our latest research found only 17% thought their money would last a month, but less than half knew their income or expenditure.

Quids in! is for people on low incomes but Martin Lewis, Money Saving Expert, allowed us to share his advice (and his pic). Our readers don't want credit card or investment advice but to know what they might miss out on and how to keep kids' tummies full.
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17 years ago, founder Jeff Mitchell drew on his time as managing director of The Big Issue, with help from the Bristol Financial Inclusion Forum, to create Quids in!, an easy-read money guide for low-income social tenants. It became a runaway success. This was the launch edition from December 2008.

Feels like I'm just posting to the void since I'm just getting started here, but why not. I write a weekly newsletter, and this week I write about how far away from reading and critical thinking we’ve come. It's lacking in our education, COVID learning loss, social media attention spans, all of it.