Your chance to have lunch with the FT

Season’s greetings. The Monetary Instances is staging an à la carte charity public sale of lunches with editor Roula Khalaf and eight different main FT journalists.

The auction is to lift funds for the FT’s Financial Literacy and Inclusion Campaign (FLIC) charity and its struggle on monetary illiteracy.

With 94 per cent of Britons saying they recall learning little or nothing about cash in school, the FT arrange the charity final yr to make financial education available to those that want it most within the UK and past.

So place your bid by 8pm on January 29. Higher nonetheless, you may safe the lunch of your selection now, in time for Christmas, by donating £10,000 to FT FLIC (£15,000 for lunch with the editor). For the purchase it now choice, e-mail neal.fuller@ftflic.com).

All proceeds will go on to the charity as a result of the stylish eating places concerned (all in London, plus one in New York) are donating the meals for 2. Take a look at the auction website or click on under for particulars of venues and eating companions. The lunches will probably be held at a mutually handy time for the profitable bidder and the FT journalist.

Bid for lunch with:

• FT editor Roula Khalaf, at Alain Ducasse, The Dorchester

• Jo Ellison, editor of HTSI, at Quo Vadis

• Dan McCrum, investigations reporter, at The Colony Grill, The Beaumont

• Gillian Tett, columnist and chair of the US editorial board and editor-at-large, on the Hélène Darroze at The Connaught (London) or Zaytinya at The Ritz-Carlton, New York

• Stephen Bush, affiliate editor and columnist, at Turnips

• Katie Martin, markets editor, at Il Pampero

• Gideon Rachman, chief international affairs commentator, The Eating Room, The Goring

• Chris Giles, economics editor, Hawksmoor (any considered one of eight London eating places)

• Robin Wigglesworth, editor of FT Alphaville, at St Pancras by Searcy’s Brasserie

FT workers from throughout the enterprise have volunteered 1000’s of hours of their time to help FT FLIC, growing its firepower and containing overheads.

A latest professional bono FT Live event for FLIC — to assist younger folks navigate the price of dwelling disaster — boosted to 67 per cent from 9 per cent the proportion of attendees who knew find out how to enhance their confidence managing cash.

Along with writing stories about monetary literacy, FT journalists have helped the FLIC group produce glowing instructional assets for faculties. on matters starting from crypto risks to budgeting. This contains serving to academics broach a topic many lack the arrogance to deal with. The charity can be gearing as much as foyer for adjustments in authorities coverage to assist obtain a mission shared by the various charities FLIC cooperates with.

Leyla Boulton is a senior editor and the FT liaison for FT FLIC. Alan Smith is head of visible and information journalism.