Jesus De Sousa
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PARTNERSHIPS & PURPOSE

Building Cash Kickstarters from Insight to Impact

Post Office Senior Marketing Manager 2024–2026

Research highlighted gaps in financial confidence, earning skills and employability among young people, particularly those facing disadvantage.

Partnerships · Youth Marketing · Programme Design · Integrated Marketing

11.7m
Video views during the pilot
420
Young people participated in Wave 2 workshops
75%
Reported greater confidence about money in Wave 2

01The challenge

Where it started.

Create something genuinely useful for young people rather than a conventional brand campaign about financial literacy.

02What I led

What I led.

Led programme strategy and development, from defining the opportunity through to partnership-led delivery and subsequent evolution.

Reach + depth

Two ways in, one programme.

Reach

Influencer and owned social content

Used to reach young people where they already were and build awareness.

Depth

Partner-led workshops

Used to create more meaningful learning, confidence and measurable impact.

From insight to practical financial confidence

  1. Listen
  2. Co-create
  3. Activate
  4. Impact

Young people helped shape the programme, content and learning journey.

Purpose works when people experience the value, not just hear the message.

Content territories

Three practical themes, built around real questions.

  1. 01

    Learn it to earn it

    Helping young people understand realistic ways to earn and make confident decisions.

  2. 02

    Sell yourself

    Helping young people position themselves for opportunities and build confidence.

  3. 03

    Paid. Now what?

    Helping young people understand earnings, planning and what to do next.

How it came together

  1. Insight

    Real young people helped shape the approach.

  2. Partnership

    Partner organisations brought expertise and credibility.

  3. Content

    The programme used practical, relevant topics and real-world formats.

  4. Activation

    Social content and workshops brought the programme to life.

  5. Impact

    The programme generated both scale and measurable confidence outcomes.

“Purpose works when people experience the value, not just hear the message.”

03Impact

Measured by phase.

The pilot and Wave 2 are reported separately. Each phase has its own participation, sentiment and confidence measures, so the figures are not combined.

Pilot2024–25

11.7m
Video views
212
Workshop participants
104,649
Likes, comments, saves and shares
98%
Net positivity from workshops
80%
More confident about money
75%
Agreed Post Office is supportive and relevant to the modern world

Wave 22025–26

420
Workshop participants
75%
More confident about money
99%
Net positivity from workshops
81%
Wanted to attend another Post Office learning event about money

04What I learned

What worked
Bringing young people into the development process made the programme more relevant than starting with a predetermined corporate message.
What I would repeat
Use specialist partners where they bring expertise and credibility the organisation does not need to recreate internally.
What it reinforced
Purpose-led marketing needs a meaningful exchange of value.

What people say

Jesus really was the heartbeat of this project. He built the programme from conception to fruition.

Tom LloydUnloc

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