About

About

The PRISM toolkit was developed by National Association of Student Money Advisers (NASMA), and funded by the Money Advice Service (MAS) in 2018. It aims to encourage student money advisers to develop and share best practice and, as a result, increase the financial capability of their students.

How to Use the PRISM toolkit

The Practitioner Resource Ideas for Student Money Advice (PRISM) toolkit is intended to support you in your day-to-day work with students.

The Resources section contains links to key research into student money management and their financial capability, and information on planning, executing and evaluating student money management support interventions (projects, drop-in sessions, workshops).

The Catalogue lists projects other practitioners have completed to give you ideas and to inspire you.

When you are ready to work on your own project work through the cycle of PLAN, DO, REFLECT and SHARE by filling in the template for each section.  Your project will become part of the Catalogue and help other practitioners in their work.

Featured resources

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Student financial capability research

This research, conducted with 5,118 full-time undergraduate students, examines the student experience of money at university or college to help understand the financial pressures facing students.

Create a project

The PRISM toolkit is based upon the concept of “collective impact” which is where large-scale social change comes from cross-sector co-ordination, not isolated interventions or individual organisations. You can help to achieve a collective money management impact for our students by developing and sharing best practice. The toolkit will take you through a step-by-step journey, based on the cycle of: Plan, Do, Reflect and Share... start your journey now by creating a project to document your money management support project/workshop/session/intervention/activity.

Create a project