If you’re 16-21 and born in the UK from 1 Sep ’02, find & take control of your Child Trust Fund. Complete the findCTF search form:

https://findCTF.sharefound.org

or, to help young people find theirs - run a CTF Event using our materials. Find out more at:

www.sharefound.org/talkCTF

Were you born in the UK between September 2002 and January 2011? If you were, chances are the Government made a payment into a Child Trust Fund account for you — and there could be over £1,000 in it! The idea was to make sure that when you turned 18 you had some cash to spend on the stuff that matters: like university, or learning to drive a car, or go travelling the world!

When you turn 16 you can take control of your account, but you can only withdraw your money after your 18th birthday. Before that, someone should get in touch with you to ask what you want to do with the money — but, for huge numbers of young people, they’ve lost track of where to find you. Meanwhile there’s well over twenty thousand young people turning 18 every month who don’t even know this money exists!

So don’t wait around — if you don’t get control of your money, you could lose it forever ..

The Share Foundation can help you find your account and get the most out of your money, and our help is completely free.

First — check with your parent or guardian.

If they don’t know — find your National Insurance number: it’ll be on a letter you would have got from HMRC around your 16th birthday.

Then — go to https://findCTF.sharefound.org

Fill out all the details — don’t forget your email address — and click that you agree that we can do the search for you, then click submit. We may be able to find it quickly for you — but to make sure, print out the form and post it to Freepost The Share Foundation.

That’s it! Once we find your account, we’ll let you know where it is. You can check with us at any time on 01296-310400 to find out what’s happening. Once you reach 18, it’s up to you what you want to do with your money: learn to drive, go to uni, even start your own business. That last task is yours — and The Share Foundation is here to help.