Junior ISA transfer

A Junior ISA is a tax-efficient way to save and invest on behalf of your child.

Payments into a Junior ISA are different from adult ISAs, because the money you put in belongs to your child. Once you put money in, you can’t take it out again, except in exceptional circumstances, and your child can only get access to their money when they turn 18.

There are two types of Junior ISA:

• Junior Cash ISAs: earn interest like a savings account. The interest rate is fixed and typically based on the rate set by the Bank of England.
• Junior Stocks & Shares ISAs: (Also known as Junior Investment ISAs), these invest in financial markets with the aim of earning returns for investors that are greater than those you would get in a Junior Cash ISA. Returns are not guaranteed, and the value of your investments can go down as well as up.

Your child can have one or both types of Junior ISA and you can deposit up to the annual limit of £9,000 into them in any combination you like.

For example, you could pay £3,000 into a Junior Cash ISA and up to £6,000 into a Junior Stocks and Shares ISA, or vice versa. You can split the allowance however you want to between the two accounts.

The benefit of a Junior ISA is that you or your child won’t pay tax on any interest, returns or dividends they receive.  

Wealthify only offers a Junior Stocks and Shares ISA.  Any money paid into a Junior ISA will belong to the child, but they cannot access it until their 18^th birthday.

If you want to build an investment pot for your child that neither you or they can touch until your child turns 18, then a Junior ISA could be the answer. Any money paid into a Junior ISA belongs to the child and cannot be withdrawn by anyone other than the child when they turn 18.  

Junior ISAs are available to children who:

• Are under the age of 18
• Are residents of the UK, or are dependants of a crown employee (e.g. army employee based overseas)
• And don’t already have a Child Trust Fund (CTF).

You can transfer your Child Trust Fund over to a Wealthify Junior ISA, but your child cannot have a CTF and a Junior ISA at the same time. When transferring a CTF to a Junior ISA, the full balance must be transferred.   

Money added to a Junior ISA belongs to the child. The parent or guardian who opened the Junior ISA acts as the registered contact, but they can’t access the money once it has been deposited, unless there are exceptional circumstances. When the child turns 18, account ownership is transferred to them.

Yes, you can easily transfer your child’s existing Junior ISA to Wealthify by completing our Junior ISA transfer request form. We’ll send you the transfer forms to complete and return to us, then we’ll contact your existing provider to arrange everything.

Please remember, if you’re transferring a Junior Cash ISA to Wealthify, it will become a Junior Stocks and Shares ISA. Your child’s money will be invested in global financial markets and the value of your investments can go down as well as up.

If you’re an existing customer, simply head to your Dashboard and use the ‘transfer in’ button on your home screen.

Yes, but you must transfer the whole balance of your Child’s Trust Fund (CTF) as you cannot have a CTF and a Junior ISA open at the same time.  

When you transfer the full balance of a Child Trust Fund over to a Junior ISA, it doesn’t count towards your child’s current Junior ISA allowance, so you can transfer the whole CTF balance without it affecting their Junior ISA allowance for that same tax year.

You can find more information on our Child Trust Fund and Junior ISA Transfer page.

A Junior ISA allows you to save or invest up to £9,000 a year on behalf of your child without paying tax on any interest and/or capital gains earnt from the money within the Junior ISA. 

Saving into a Junior ISA on behalf of your children does not affect your own annual ISA allowance.

The Junior ISA allowance for the 2026/27 tax year is £9,000.

A child can have one Junior Cash ISA and one Junior Stocks & Shares ISA. The annual allowance can be split between accounts any way you like, but the total payments made into both must not exceed this amount in any given tax year.

The two Junior ISAs don’t have to be with the same provider, so you can choose the best option for you and your child. Wealthify does not currently offer a Junior Cash ISA, but we may do in the future, so watch this space.

If your child already has a Child Trust Fund in their name, it would need to be transferred to us in order to open a Junior ISA with Wealthify.  You can transfer a Child Trust Fund into a Wealthify Junior Stocks and Shares ISA using the official transfer process.