It goes without saying that Christmas can be an extremely expensive time of year, with just a few weeks until the big day we thought we could share a few tips on how you can save some money over the festive season.

Work out what you can afford

It can be so easy to get carried away when buying presents at this time of year. Before you get fully immersed in present buying

2020 marked the 250th anniversary of Wordsworth's birth and the long-planned reopening of Dove Cottage after a £6.2m transformation of the Grasmere site by The Wordsworth Trust, supported by the National Lottery Heritage Fund. As we know things didn't quite go to plan in 2020, but all the more reason to support our local attractions. Changes at Dove Cottage include the

This week is Talk Money Week, a campaign created by The Money and Pensions Service to try and encourage people to talk openly about money to improve their financial wellbeing. This is a campaign which we really support as, even in 2021, money can still be seen as a rather taboo subject with 9 in 10 UK adults* finding it difficult to talk about money, or not even discussing

Today is National Stress Awareness Day. As money and financial worries are one of the top contributors of stress, we wanted to share this blog on how balancing money and your mindset can enable you to become a financial wellbeing ‘all-rounder’.

A new study* has found that people with a financial adviser are over four times more likely to display high levels of financial