Not every family is lucky enough to have a stash of Family Silver and, judging by the latest research, it’s probably just as well – It will only end up in the pawn shop. A poll of 1,064 UK families, commissioned by Ffrees, found a third (30%) still had grown-up children living at home and … Read more
A couple of weeks back, at the Entrepreneur Country dinner, Jo had a long chat with one of the greatest British businessmen of the last 30 years, Archie Norman. Archie is a “very good bloke indeed”, to quote the Daily Mail’s Quentin Letts. He is also, clearly, a very clever one and his story is … Read more
Tax on Savings: The Greek farce that could become an EU tragedy
March 18th, 2013 | Posted by in Family Finance - (0 Comments)For those who missed the most significant story of the week, here’s a brief and astonishing reprise. It’s about Cyprus, which, like every other nation in the EC except Germany, is, er… feeling the pinch. Now its banks have run out of money. To save the banks, some genius has suggested that the Cypriot government taxes all savings held in local … Read more
The Budget: Your Destiny and CGT
March 8th, 2013 | Posted by in Family Finance | The Grafters - (0 Comments)Bad News Day for Families is on 20th March this year. That’s known as the Budget to you and me, and you can bet that household budgeting issues will be of more interest to most families than George Osborne’s grand opus for 2013. And, as for the will-he, won’t-he angst around a Capital Gains Tax … Read more
So where’s the Greed when you need it?
February 21st, 2013 | Posted by in The Grafters - (0 Comments)Up at Ffrees HQ here in Sheffield, there is often a debate about how our families will spend their Ffrees. It was interesting, then, to be pinged by the 3rd Annual “Money Matters” Report. This wasn’t a nice bed-time story. In fact, it definitely deserves a post-watershed rating. Confidence is low and optimism for 2013 is … Read more
What a great surprise all round then that four *ahem* “beef” burgers, which cost less than a large packet of crisps, aren’t exactly thoroughbreds? Cue the start of the long unravelling process of all those great “value” foods. The next 12 months will reveal a fraud of global and life threatening proportions that will doubtless date back more … Read more
Guest Blog: Keeping the kids entertained on a shoestring
February 14th, 2013 | Posted by in Family Finance - (0 Comments)Written by Helen Pickard, founder of Goodvalueformoney.com Half term is fast approaching and, whilst family days out are a lot of fun, they can also leave you strapped for cash when the kids go back to school. Goodvalueformoney.com founder Helen Pickard has these handy tips to beat boredom on a budget. 1. Book Tickets … Read more
Sounds like the start of a joke, doesn’t it? Trust me, it’s not, and it’s not very funny anyway! (But it’s absolutely central to whom we should actually spend our money with…) Banks don’t make money out of banking for the likes of you, me, and the families of the UK. Odd that: It’s their core business, … Read more
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