Travel insurance from Age UK is nearly double the cost of a comparable policy from PayingTooMuch.com, potentially leaving customers feeling ripped off and perhaps even putting them off going on holiday. A two week single-trip policy for a 78 year old male, with pre-existing medical conditions*, to the Canary Islands was £158.16 from Age UK, […]
Facing Facts: Healthy and Unhealthy Fats
On the news and in the media more generally, you often hear reports listing words like ‘cholesterol’, ‘trans fats’ or ‘polyunsaturated fat’. To the uninitiated, this can be confusing at best, and at worst a minefield with no real solutions advising what you should and shouldn’t eat. This article will run through some come healthy […]
Unlock the Security Potential of Your iPhone
The newest iteration of the iPhone has hit Apple stores and throngs of people have already queued up, some with tents and sleeping bags – you might be one of them! All that’s on your mind is how great your new phone is going to be, or how happy your dad will be with his tech […]
Get Safe Online's UK initiative to keep families safe online
Fake phone calls, emails and texts are a form of ‘Social engineering’, an extremely targeted type of scam where fraudsters manipulate their victims into sharing confidential information. As part of the national initiative, Get Safe Online, along with its partners, has unveiled a new TV ad which it hopes will keep everyone safe online and […]
Ipswich Building Society On Mortgages After Divorce
The 4th January sees most households return to work, with Auld Lang Syne sung for another year and the must-have Christmas toy probably already having fallen out of favour. But with 42% of marriages ending in divorce it may not come as a surprise to learn the first working Monday in January is dubbed Divorce […]
Choose which promotional gifts to hand out
Handing out promotional gifts is a tried and trusted marketing strategy. At expos, conferences and business meetings around the world companies share their brand in a number of ingenious ways. You might be considering giving away promotional items as marketing strategy for your company. There are a number of ways to do this whether it’s […]
The Phone Co-op wins UK Social Enterprise Awards
The Phone Co-op, based in Chipping Norton and Manchester, has won the Best Consumer Facing award at the UK Social Enterprise Awards. The national competition recognises excellence and outstanding achievements by social enterprises – businesses that reinvest their profits for good, benefitting people and planet. The UK now has more than 70,000 social enterprises, contributing […]
Be careful of phony gas fitters for your boiler this winter
Winter is upon us and that means household boilers will again be working almost continuously. This is the time they can break down, especially if it’s been a long while since the boiler was last serviced. And if you have ever had your boiler break down in the middle of the winter you will know […]
3 Tips For Students To Shop On Footwear Within The Budget
When it comes to the people in UK, they are crazy about buying footwears. So if you love collecting them, then you are not alone. A survey conducted in Britain says that on an average women there own 17 pairs footwear and spend more than half of their time wearing heels. So being students, it […]
Stop Saving All Your Receipts!
Managing your business expenses to make those claims to the HMRC is a job in itself. Receipt management often requires the kind of toing and froing between staff and finance department that would have you pulling your hair out if they were the equivalent practices of any other cross-department exchange. Typically, an employee, charged with […]