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Join us in the City

City Walking tours – now available

Junior Trader finance walking tours are designed for Year 11 to 13 students, university groups, MBA cohorts, societies, and individuals visiting the city for the first time.

Delivered through a 90 minute guided finance walking tour in the City of London or Manchester, the experience introduces share trading, financial markets and the language of finance through the places where modern financial services developed.

Each tour is led by a former Investment Bank Director and plc CEO with more than sixteen years’ experience educating teenagers and young adults. These are not traditional sightseeing tours. They are interactive, place based lectures that use the city itself to explain how financial markets really work.

Participants will gain an understanding of:

  • The origins of different financial markets
  • How markets evolved into modern regulation, digitisation, investment banking, and fund management
  • The role of infrastructure, technology, and information flow
  • How IT, AI, and changes to working practices may shape the future
  • The influence of major philanthropists and civic institutions

If you don’t know the difference between a pony and a monkey, a bullseye and half a bar, and the Romans’ influence in Rocket Science, join us on a tour spanning from Cotton to Capital.

Both the City of London and Manchester tours use historic and modern locations to connect classroom learning with real-world financial systems, helping students and visitors understand how cities, markets and opportunity intersect.

Groups are limited to 20 participants. For school groups, a minimum of one member of teaching staff is required for every 10 students, unless all participants are adults. Tours are tailored to the audience and can be delivered for UK Year 11 to 13 students, undergraduates, or international students looking for a quick, course-relevant introduction to their new home city.

Email in to book your school’s private tour, and get your hands on the worlds largest cheque, stand on the StockEx floor and see the credit crunch explained on the steps of the Bank of England!