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Groundwork Coventry and Warwickshire is one of a federation of over 50 Trusts across England, Wales and Northern Ireland who work in partnership with the public, private and voluntary sectors. Groundwork Coventry and Warwickshire ran a pilot project delivering financial literacy learning with community groups within the Building Sustainable Communities neighbourhoods between October 2005 and November 2006.

The project aimed at developing a range of skills through community projects and activities with the broad themes were to be literacy, numeracy and language through financial capability and lessons aimed at addressing financial skills, knowledge, understanding and competence.

Areas of teaching entailed working on a group's financial skills, knowledge, understanding, competence and responsibility in community activities and in other cases the community activities would provide an opportunity to reach otherwise difficult to reach potential learners and to use financial themes in a personal context.

Between October 05 and Nov 06, Groundwork were able to run eight separate courses in Coventry that focused on financial literacy skills and learning.

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