The Finance club (10-14 years old)

The Finance Club is designed to nurture your child’s financial confidence by helping them develop the mindset, habits, and practical skills needed to understand money, investing, entrepreneurship, and decision-making in an engaging and supportive environment.

The Finance Club The Finance Club is a collaboration with Leap Finance Academy.

📍 Ages: 10 - 14 years old

📅 Dates: 31 August, 7 September, 14 September, 21 September, 28 September, 26 October, 16 November and 23 November, 30 November and 7 December.

⏰ Times: Mondays (5:00 - 6:30 PM)

👥 Maximum group size: 10 students

One of the most valuable yet often overlooked foundations we can give our children is financial literacy. In a rapidly changing world shaped by technology and artificial intelligence, the ability to understand and manage money is becoming an essential life skill.

Learning how to earn, save, spend, invest, and plan wisely builds the foundation for long-term financial confidence, independence, and wellbeing.

Our objective is to empower children to develop healthy financial habits and practical judgment that will serve them throughout life.

We believe in interactive, experiential learning. Through games, role play, challenges, and real-world scenarios, students explore how money works in practice and develop a clear understanding of financial decision-making over time.

Where appropriate, we introduce early investing concepts in a structured and age-appropriate way, helping students build familiarity with long-term thinking.

Each session focuses on one core theme within a structured learning pathway. Students first build understanding, then reinforce it through interactive activities designed to develop lasting thinking patterns and behaviours.

No prior knowledge is needed: only curiosity about how the world works.

What Children Will Experience

• Guided activities that encourage independent thinking and decision-making

• Hands-on challenges simulating real-life financial situations

• Learning through games, role play, and problem-solving exercises

• Group discussions on money, value, and everyday financial choices

• A supportive environment that builds curiosity and confidence

• Early exposure to investing and ownership thinking in a simplified form

  
  

What Children Will Learn

• How money is earned, managed, saved, and spent

• How to build strong saving, spending, and budgeting habits

• How to set goals and create simple financial plans

• The difference between needs, wants, value, and trade-offs

• The fundamentals of investing and how assets work at a basic level

• How to think long-term about growth, responsibility, and financial choices

• The basics of entrepreneurship and thinking like a creator or owner

Instructor: Nik Nik is a Private Equity and Family Office investment professional with over 17 years of international experience, including at Rothschild & Co and leading Private Equity firms.

He teaches investing and financial thinking to students and co-founded Leap Finance Academy to make practical financial education more accessible.

He has taught finance and investing courses at leading universities including ESSEC Business School, IMD, and the University of St. Gallen.

Nik is a fluent English, German, French and conversational Italian speaker.

Programme Structure

The Finance Club is a two-term programme running from August 2026 to June 2027.

Term 1 (Aug–Dec 2026)

31 August, 7 September, 14 September, 21 September, 28 September, 26 October, 16 November and 23 November, 30 November and 7 December.

Term 2 (Jan–Jun 2027)

Dates shared closer to the start of term

Payment Structure

Payments are made in two instalments, one per term:

• August–December 2026

• January–June 2027