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How Best To Give To Charity
A puppy is not just for Christmas, they used to say and the same is true for gifting to charity - it is something that is, if you are...
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Dec 14, 20244 min read
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Tinsel Troubles? Unwrap Your Consumer Rights This Christmas
It is the season of shopping and especially online shopping. And also the season of panicked returns and undelivered and faulty goods. So...
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Dec 9, 20244 min read
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Free Credit
Christmas is coming and the shop tills are running hot, as consumers go on an annual spending spree. It’s even more important than...
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Nov 30, 20243 min read
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Energy Bills & How To Cut Them
The price most households pay for gas and electricity will rise by 1% on average from 1 January 2025 as energy regulator Ofgem has...
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Nov 23, 20245 min read
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Byte(ing) Into Bitcoin
The Trump Jump - Bitcoin has gone crazy (again) as its price has risen once more by a breath catching jump. On the US election night, as...
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Nov 16, 20245 min read
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Cash Flow Kids
How to save for children and young people Q: Can someone under 18 have an ISA? A: The Junior Isa is for children under the age of 18....
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Nov 2, 20244 min read
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Who Pays Capital Gains Tax and How Not To...
Who Pays The Most & Least Capital Gains Tax In The World? The headline rate ignores lots of important detail, such as allowances and how...
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Oct 19, 20244 min read
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Are Shares the Best Way Of Making Money?
Investing in the top 100 shares in the UK over the past 12 months, made a little over 12% in total returns. The FTSE All Share Total...
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Oct 12, 20245 min read
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Pregnant Pause - Your Maternity Pay Rights
Tory leadership candidate Kemi Badenoch has suggested maternity pay has "gone too far" and the government needed to interfere less in...
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Oct 5, 20244 min read
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Pension Raid?
How saving in a pension can get you free money, what might happen in the budget of 2024 to claw it back. So here is a simple guide to how...
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Sep 28, 20246 min read
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Debt & How To Cope
5.2m people are behind on consumer credit payments. That’s a big number but more striking is that it is a rise of 40% in over 12 months,...
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Sep 21, 20245 min read
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Free Childcare & How To Get It
There is free childcare out there but the rules are complex and like a slippery eel - hard to get a grip on. So here is my best go at...
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Sep 13, 20244 min read
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How To Save Money On Your Mortgage
Two headline grabbing moves are happening in the property market. House prices are at their highest in two years and mortgage rates are...
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Sep 9, 20245 min read
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Free Money Give Away from Student Bank Accounts
It’s back to school, university and college time and among the new pencil cases and stationery, which is always a pleasure, there is the...
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Sep 2, 20244 min read
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How To Keep Bills Down Despite The Rise in Energy Costs
Q: A couple of things have happened with our energy bills – what has just changed?  A: If you were over 66 (pension age) up until now,...
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Aug 24, 20245 min read
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Travel Insurance
4 Mistakes To Avoid Hard truths first: insurance is boring and when you are booking your much loved and anticipated summer holiday - it's...
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Aug 11, 20244 min read
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Lock Down Your Finance
Top Tips for Securing Your Mobile Banking Apps With more and more of us using mobile banking apps – when a phone gets stolen so does your...
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Jul 29, 20244 min read
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Savings Boom
The number of Cash ISAs on the market has grown by 114 in the past six months alone, according to data from MoneyFacts, and there has...
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Jul 21, 20243 min read
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The Truth About Student Loans
About 700,000 students are applying to study at University at courses which start in September. Generally it costs about £9,000 per year...
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Jul 13, 20245 min read
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Loving Your LISA?
LISA - the Lifetime ISA was meant to be a great way of helping people onto the housing ladder and it's been popular with £4.3bn of...
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Jun 20, 20243 min read
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