Guides and help

Here you can get our latest blogs, articles & guides from our expert team. We aim to help our readers improve their financial wellness and make sound financial decisions. While the information we offer is completely free, we take every effort to ensure the quality of our content is interesting, honest and uncomplicated.

Please use this information as a guide to help you, and not as financial advice.

A decade in lending

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We've been in the lending industry since 2012. We are on a mission to improve financial well-being and productivity by providing ethical lending solutions and financial know-how to UK workers.

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3 Things you can do to start budgeting today

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Whether you’ve come out of the pandemic relatively unscathed financially, or better off, or had your household income blown by illness or job loss, there’s probably never been a better time to start budgeting.

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Will reducing working hours improve wellbeing?

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There were some startling employment figures from the United States in early summer 2021. In what has been tagged ‘The Great Resignation’, some 4 million people quit their jobs in April, according to the Labor Department’s Job Openings and Labor Turnover Summary. And it seems the UK isn’t immune: a Personio study found 38% of employees are looking to change roles in the next year.

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5 Work benefits that can help improve staff wellbeing

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Never before has wellbeing been such a buzzword at work. The fallout from the Covid-19 pandemic has brought a whole raft of extra worries to our 9-5, from work-at-home challenges to job-loss anxieties, isolation to burnout.

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Authors

Amy Dixon

Amy Dixon

Amy is a passionate writer. With more than five years of experience in digital marketing and public relations, she covers everyday, practical financial subjects on our blog. Amy graduated in 2015 from the University of Sunderland.

Paulo Ferreira

Paulo Ferreira

Paulo has worked in financial services for over 10 years, covering a wide range of products including insurance and prepaid cards. His skills include graphic design, marketing, blogging, project management and branding. He had a leading role in developing our brand tone of voice and values.

Sarah Henshaw

Sarah Henshaw

Sarah has 15 years’ experience as a journalist and copywriter. She has published news stories and features with a variety of UK finance and insurance firms including Union Insurance Services. She graduated from Durham University in 2005.