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For FE colleges, sixth forms & tutorial leads

Money lessons your learners ask to play again.

A five-minute tutorial starter, or a full session on payslips, phone contracts, renting and scams. BudgetUp is built for 16+ learners, with no ads, no chat and no gambling-style mechanics. Your safeguarding lead will be happy too.

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Mo checking a phone covered in money notifications while Chip the hamster peers over his shoulderSafe for 16+ learners

Tutorial time is tight. Money worries aren't.

Learners are starting part-time jobs, phone contracts and first tenancies, and money comes up in the personal development curriculum. Slides and worksheets rarely survive contact with a Friday afternoon tutorial.

How it works in a college

  1. Hand out a code

    One code per campus, course or tutor group, or sign-in with Microsoft Entra ID or Google and launch from your VLE with LTI 1.3.

  2. Play in tutorial or at home

    Works on any phone or college PC. Classic mode covers older devices, and nothing needs installing.

  3. Show the change

    A short confidence and wellbeing check at the start and after six weeks, reported by group with small numbers suppressed.

What you get

We label everything honestly. "Available now" means it's built, tested and ready for a pilot today. "Rolling out" means it's in build for 2026/27; "on the roadmap" means later. Neither is promised as a day-one feature.

Book a pilot to see pricing

Evidence, not page views

Evidence that fits your personal development programme

The same outcomes framework we use with universities, scaled for FE: short, skippable check-ins, results by group only, and nothing that profiles individual learners.

Pre/post group report at the end of the pilot

Available now
  • Money confidence and self-efficacy, at the start and after six weeks
  • Knowledge of interest, inflation and payslips
  • "I know where to get help" before and after
  • Activation and completion by course or campus
  • Groups under 10 learners are suppressed

Pilot offer

Try it with a few tutor groups for a term

A paid one-term pilot, credited in full against your first year's licence if you continue for 100–500 learners. We'll help you slot it into the tutorial plan and give you a report you can take to SLT.

You get

  • A suggested six-week tutorial sequence
  • Posters and a VLE banner
  • A pre/post report for your groups
  • A written quote sized to your college

We ask

  • A named tutorial or personal development lead
  • A DPIA together (we prefill most of it)
  • Running the start and six-week check-ins
  • Permission to publish an anonymised case study

Talk to us about a pilot

Tell us a little about you. We'll come back with a 20-minute demo slot and a pilot outline. No sales sequence, promise.

Questions buyers ask

Is it suitable for 16 and 17-year-olds?

Yes, that's who it's built for. Content passes a tone check (safe to show in class, never punching down), there's no chat or user-generated content, and our under-18 mode follows the ICO Children's Code. We complete a DPIA with every FE college.

Does it teach investing or crypto?

We teach investing basics as education only, using fictional companies and rewarding patience and diversification. Crypto, trading and gambling appear only as warnings and scam awareness, never as skills.

Can learners with SEND use it?

We build to WCAG 2.2 AA: keyboard play, reduced motion, sound off by default and colour never the only signal. Classic mode offers a non-3D alternative. See our accessibility statement for known issues.

What does it cost?

Learners are always free. Colleges pay an annual licence sized to learner numbers; book a pilot chat and we'll send a written quote. Prices sit below most procurement thresholds.

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