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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. Our tours take learning out of the classroom and debunk modern day financial services by understanding origins.

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

Each tour is led by a former Investment Bank Director and plc CEO with more than 20 years’ experience educating teenagers and young adults. These are not traditional sightseeing tours or blue plaque guides. 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!

Why Our Tours Matter

  • Preserving Heritage – Bringing Britain’s financial, industrial and cultural history to life through the places where it happened.
  • Engaging Future Financiers – Inspiring young people to explore careers in finance, business, economics and entrepreneurship.
  • Promoting Diversity in Finance – Widening access to industries that have traditionally been difficult for many young people to enter.
  • Building Financial Understanding – Helping students develop practical knowledge of money, risk, investment and decision making.
  • Expanding Access – Providing finance and economics enrichment for schools and students who may not otherwise have access to these subjects.
  • Supporting University Learning – Offering real world context for business, economics, history and international study programmes.
  • Showcasing Britain Internationally – Highlighting the UK’s global influence in finance, trade, innovation, music, sport and culture.