Our Future Voice Now: The young and the emotion of money

Our Future Voice NowProgramme Updates
Written By Matthew Gwyther

What do young people feel about money at the moment?

In this podcast produced by Jericho in association with Barclays LifeSkills, we interviewed three individuals from very different backgrounds.

Ricardo Ennis who is 19 and a Lambeth Youth Councillor; Francesca Bilocca, a graduate from Durham University who is currently hunting for a job; and Iona Bain, one of the UK’s youngest experts on young people and finance.

In the interviews, our guests speak about many topics: money and status, materialism, budgeting, the relationship between thrift and sustainability, Peak Stuff and student debt. 

We also discussed the ease with which the digital world makes doing things with money so simple. This has up and downsides. A frictionless existence can lead to costly mistakes if you’re not careful. These days with the omnipresence of social media the young are surrounded by a sometimes bewildering array of enticing schemes - building a following as an influencer and then monetising it or getting rich quick by planning cryptocurrency.

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The Our Future Voice Now programme is curated by Jericho with generous support from Barclays LifeSkills.

To get involved please contact our Programme Director becky.holloway@jerichochambers.com 

Matthew Gwyther

Matthew edited Management Today for 17 years and during that time won the coveted  BSME Business Magazine Editor of the year on a record five occasions. During a fifteen year career as a freelance he wrote for the Sunday Times magazine, The Independent, The Telegraph, The Observer, GQ and was a contributing editor to Business magazine. He was PPA Business Feature Writer of the Year in 2001. He has also worked on two drama serials one for Channel 4 and one for the BBC.  Before becoming a journalist he had a brief and inauspicious spell as a civil servant working at the Medical Research Council in its London Secretariat.

Matthew is the main presenter on BBC Radio 4’s In Business programme.

Matthew is also the co-author of Exposure published by Penguin in London and New York in the Autumn of 2012. It is the story of whistleblower Michael Woodford, the “Southend samurai” who left school at 16 and worked his way up to the top post of the Japanese industrial conglomerate Olympus, only to discover that his board were involved in a two billion dollar fraud.

Contact: matthew.gwyther@jerichochambers.com

https://www.linkedin.com/in/matthew-gwyther-8b043210/
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