GILT
Gilat Satellite Networks Ltd
stock NASDAQ

Because Trading 212 don't charge platform fees or dealing fees. They make their money from CFDs and FX Fees when people buy individual foreign stocks. And bid-offer spreads, potentially. They've probably figured providing access to the secondary GILT market would cost more than the potential income it would generate.
I'll just add, 18 year old me and an app on my phone that could give me access to tens of thousands of pounds at the touch of a button would not have been a great combination... Your son may be different, of course!

You have a few options, GILT ETF's, Money markets, or swapping brokers so one that allows GILT trading like HL, SW, or Freetrade. He could also just use the T212 Cash ISA.
Your son could also open a premium bonds account, no drawdown risk, which with with the current prize rate, and the amount that would accumulate from matching UK student loans (lol), would give him a good chance at falling within average luck over the course of his degree.
Then of course theres always avenues with equity, but from reading your other replies it sounds like you have your head screwed on about knowing the risk profiles of funds, ETF's, and trusts, wherein there is drawdown risk involved.
All in all whichever way you do this, its a great thing you're doing for your son and he will certainly appreciate it in the years following his graduation.

Because Trading 212 don't charge platform fees or dealing fees. They make their money from CFDs and FX Fees when people buy individual foreign stocks. And bid-offer spreads, potentially. They've probably figured providing access to the secondary GILT market would cost more than the potential income it would generate.
I'll just add, 18 year old me and an app on my phone that could give me access to tens of thousands of pounds at the touch of a button would not have been a great combination... Your son may be different, of course!

You have a few options, GILT ETF's, Money markets, or swapping brokers so one that allows GILT trading like HL, SW, or Freetrade. He could also just use the T212 Cash ISA.
Your son could also open a premium bonds account, no drawdown risk, which with with the current prize rate, and the amount that would accumulate from matching UK student loans (lol), would give him a good chance at falling within average luck over the course of his degree.
Then of course theres always avenues with equity, but from reading your other replies it sounds like you have your head screwed on about knowing the risk profiles of funds, ETF's, and trusts, wherein there is drawdown risk involved.
All in all whichever way you do this, its a great thing you're doing for your son and he will certainly appreciate it in the years following his graduation.