About
About us
A student-led volunteer group. High school students teach older adults in their own towns how to handle money safely and recognise a scam.
A note from the founder
It started with my grandmother.
More and more of what she needed to do every week moved onto a screen, and the calls kept coming — the ones that sound official and want something done right now. I watched her hesitate over things she had handled on her own for years.
Most of her questions took me a few minutes to answer. That is the part that stuck with me. The problem was not complicated. It was just that nobody had sat down and gone through it with her.
Plenty of people are in that position without a grandchild on hand to ask. So in 2025 I started Future Finance for Seniors, to do for other people's grandparents what I was already doing for mine.
Why we do this
Scams aimed at older adults have got better. They arrive by phone, text, and email, they are written to sound official, and they are designed to create panic so that nobody has time to think it through.
Meanwhile, more of ordinary life has moved onto a screen. Banking, bills, benefits, prescriptions. If you did not grow up with that, it is a lot to pick up on your own, and the people most willing to "help" over the phone are often the ones you should trust least.
High school students grew up with those screens. That turns out to be a useful thing to be able to give away. So we do: for free, in person, in our own towns.
How it works
Future Finance for Seniors is organised into local chapters. Each chapter is run by a high school student in that area, with a team of student volunteers around them. The chapter finds host sites nearby — a library, a senior center, a community center, a church — and runs sessions there.
Sessions are free. Host sites are not charged, attendees are not charged, and nothing is sold at any point.
What we do not do
- We explain how financial products work. We do not give personal financial advice. We are students, not licensed advisers, and we will not tell anyone what to do with their own savings, investments, or estate.
- We do not sell anything, and we do not represent any bank, insurer, or company.
- We do not ask anyone who attends for money, account numbers, card numbers, Social Security numbers, or passwords.
- We do not collect contact details from attendees, and there is no sign-up form anywhere on this website.
About our volunteers
Our volunteers are high school students, and many of them are minors. Apart from the founder, who has chosen to put his name to the note above, we do not publish volunteers' or chapter leads' names, schools, ages, photographs, or personal contact details anywhere on this site. Chapters are identified by town or region only, and every message goes to one shared address rather than to a student directly.
This is a deliberate choice, not an oversight. If you need to reach a specific chapter, email us and we will pass it on.
High school age is our minimum. Two volunteers run each session on their own. Where a host site has its own requirements for visiting volunteers — a form, a code of conduct, a background check — we complete whatever they ask for.
Get in touch
Everything comes to one address, whether you want to book a session, ask a question, volunteer, or tell us about a community that could use us.