There are over a million young adults, mainly from low-income/disadvantaged backgrounds, whose Child Trust Funds - worth over £2 billion in total - remain unclaimed because their young owners don’t know of their existence. This conference calls for action to correct this injustice
Our CTF Conference took place on Tuesday 5th March ‘24 in Church House, Westminster focused on Unclaimed, Adult-owned Child Trust Funds - please visit the slides, text and videos via the links below:
Press Release — Introductory Video with comments
(please note that extra content will be added in the days following the conference)
9.30 am: Ruth Kelly, former Govt. Minister & Trustee, The Share Foundation — CTF Rationale & Design (slide, text, and video)
10.00 am: Gavin Oldham, Chair of The Share Foundation — Current status of unclaimed accounts (slides, video and text)
10.25 am: Andrew Turner & Philip Warford — update on family access for disabled young adults (slides and video)
10.40 am: Political perspectives — discussion of progress to improve adult claiming rates, including Danny Kruger MP and Ruth Kelly (slide and video)
11.10 am: Coffee/Tea Break
11.30 am: NatWest & others, including Foresters Friendly, One Family & Healthy Investment — Account Providers perspective (slides and video)
12 noon: Search facilities & their promotion — Mark Pickard, HM Revenue & Customs (slides and video) and Danielle Higgins, The Tracing Group (slides and video)
12.30 pm: Sue Parsons - The Share Foundation, Fiona Ross - CTF Ambassador, Nici Audhlam-Gardiner, Chair of TISA Financial Education Council — Survey findings from successful claimants & financial /education awareness (slides, videos and text)
1 pm: Gavin Oldham, The Share Foundation — a new approach for inter-generational rebalancing, built on CTF experience (slides, video and text)
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