Every year in November, we run our Talk Money Week awareness campaign to encourage you to be more open about money with your friends and family and help you get advice from experts if needed.

Having conversations about money can seem awkward. It can feel like a taboo subject, but it needn’t be. From pocket money to pensions, Talk Money Week is an opportunity to start building money conversations into everyday life.

We all have money worries. Our research shows that one in three of us say thinking about our financial situation makes us worried. There are simple steps you can take to address uncertainties and improve your financial wellbeing. We can help you do that. 

Talking about money with friends, family, children — or experts if necessary — can help you feel more confident in managing your money and give you greater financial resilience to deal with future income changes or life events that affect your finances. We also encourage building healthy relationships with money from a young age. Our research has shown that almost a third of parents and carers don’t talk to their kids openly about money, missing out on an opportunity to help with children’s vital early understanding.

Getting children engaged with fun, age-appropriate money challenges is easy to do.

You can start by simply having a conversation about money. If you and your partner have different attitudes to money, our guide Talking to your partner about money, can help. If you’ve been putting off having an awkward conversation about money with a friend, then read our guide Talking with friends about money.

This year’s campaign will take place from 4-8 November 2024 to encourage people across the UK to ‘Do One Thing’ that could help improve their financial wellbeing.

It could be as simple as checking the address of a pension, talking to a child about pocket money or using one of our free tools or calculators.

All that matters is that we get people talking about money together.

You can find out more in the Managing Your Money section on this site.