This page is for the people who sit in our Woodstock sessions on a Saturday morning, or join the online cohort after a shift, and ask the questions nobody answered at school: what a share price actually shows, why prices rise faster than a first salary, and how to tell a real business story from a pitch built on urgency.
Most people who walk into the Woodstock room have never opened an annual report. These are notes from students, first-time earners and teachers who sat through a full module and did the closing exercise.
I came in thinking a low share price meant a cheap company. We spent the second hour pulling apart a listing page and I realised the number on its own tells you almost nothing. That was the part that stuck.
The inflation exercise hit harder than I expected. We tracked a real first-salary budget across twelve months and watched transport and data eat the difference. Nobody tried to sell me anything at the end.
I run an after-school club and brought six learners along. The facilitators were patient with the questions and never once promised a shortcut. We now use the workbook as our Thursday activity.
Across the last four Saturday intakes, 92% of attendees finished the closing exercise on a public company report, and 78% came back for a second module. The online cohort runs the same material, with a facilitator reading through submitted worksheets each week.
We do not publish testimonials from people promising returns, and we do not run a referral scheme. If a session did not work for you, we would rather hear that directly — it shapes what we teach next.
Saturday session in Woodstock
If you are still working out how a share price is set, or why your first payslip disappears faster than the numbers suggest, one Saturday morning in Woodstock is enough to get the basics straight. No signals, no tips, no pressure to put money anywhere. Just a room, a whiteboard and a public company report you will read yourself.
Seats are limited to keep the group small. If the weekend slot is full, the online cohort runs on weekday evenings, and the starter reading on share prices is a fair place to begin on your own.