10th Mar 2022
With the world tightening its spending belt and many of us trying to be more environmentally aware, food waste really is intolerable. It is a great time to see which supermarkets rise to the challenge. Budget supermarket Lidl are offering Too Good To Waste boxes for only £1.50. I got my first box this week…
8th Mar 2022
It’s International Women’s Day! MoneyMagpie was founded by a strong female leader in the personal finance industry. Jasmine Birtles founded the website almost 15 years ago. Her mission was, and still is, to empower people to take control of their finances. Money can be a daunting and complicated subject. It is one people shy away…
6th Mar 2022
It’s zero waste week! In February, we launched a campaign with our founder and personal finance expert Jasmine Birtles to legalise Freeganism in the UK. You can sign our petition and help fight food waste here. Freeganism is defined as: “An alternative philosophy for living, based on minimum participation in capitalism and conventional economic practices,…
4th Mar 2022
Do you need compensation for a vaccine injury? More and more people are realising that they can get financial help if they suffered physical damage after having a vaccine. At MoneyMagpie we want to be here for you when things go wrong. Life-altering situations can happen at any moment, so we wanted to share some…
4th Mar 2022
Understanding poverty is clearly not something we have been taught properly how to do. In 2018, vlogger Alfie Deyes came under fire for uploading a video trying to show how hard living on £1 a day can be. The video was met with enormous criticism, mainly by people feeling angered about watching a millionaire joking…
2nd Mar 2022
ISA usage has grown in popularity recently, after losing customers when the Personal Savings Allowance was launched in 2016. After that tax break was introduced, ISA use dropped by 13% in a year. Finally, the number of ISA accounts opened has finally risen above pre-2016 levels as a total of 13m ISA accounts were opened…
25th Feb 2022
Ahead of our Instagram live, we asked SORTEDfood to share their smart tips for saving money in the kitchen. To view the live tune into @jasminebirtles on Instagram on Friday 25th February at 12:30 pm. Don’t worry if you can’t make it as it’ll be added to our YouTube channel after the broadcast. SORTEDfood is…
21st Feb 2022
Divorce is a subject that we don’t ever want to talk about until we have to, unless of course you are a divorce lawyer. No part of divorce is easy. Once we arrive at the painful decision to start the proceedings, the emotional toll can feel huge, so the last thing we want is to…
21st Feb 2022
Losing a loved one is hard enough, without the added stress of trying to navigate Wills. Plus, if the Will is not as straightforward as you’d hoped, it can be difficult to know where to start. You may have difficulty understanding the wishes of the deceased as stated in the Will. Similarly, the legal jargon…
16th Feb 2022
Should I set up a Junior ISA (JISA) for my child? The answer is probably yes. These long-term savings accounts mean you can put together some tax-free cash for your child. Whether it be for university fees, travelling or a down payment on a house – you’ll be setting them up well. They are also…
3rd Feb 2022
It is the tax treatment of pensions that makes them both an attractive long-term savings option, and a complicated one. Here Adrian Lowery, personal finance expert at Isa and Sipp platform Bestinvest, delves into ten of the tax benefits and dangers pension savers need to know about along with Louise Higham, a chartered financial planner…
2nd Feb 2022
Theatres are finally re-open after months and months of being closed, and theatre goers couldn’t be happier. One of life’s little pleasures is the rush of adrenaline you get when the lights go down, the curtain goes up and the music kicks into action. The tingle of excitement you feel, whether you are an avid…
