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Double Your LOQBOX Savings
For a limited time only, when you sign up to LOQBOX, make your first payment and invite a friend we’ll give you both a chance to double your LOQBOX savings. So if you win we’ll match every pound you save, for both of you. Save together, win together, get financially fit and achieve your one big goal for 2021 together.
Get Financially Fit
Our one big goal for 2021: How to work on goals together
Many of the big goals in life are multiplayer. So we need to work together to make our collective dreams come true. Here’s how.
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Building new money habits in 2021
Our finances have such a big impact on our health, happiness and ability to achieve the things we want in life. That’s why building new money habits for 2021 can help us take steps towards a brighter future.
Money Goals: Your Stories
Money Goals: A recruitment consultant on £24,900 who wants to find better deals by improving their credit score
Read our latest Money Goals story from a 45-year-old recruitment consultant who wants to find better deals by improving their credit score.
Money Goals: A 29-year-old decorator who wants to start their own business
Read our latest Money Goals story from a 29-year-old painter decorator who wants to start their own business and buy a house.
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Money Goals: Three reasons to share your story with us
Are you working towards a big money goal like buying a home, starting a business or saving for a holiday? We’d love for you to share your story with us. Here are three reasons to do so right now.
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Credit-Building Tips
Double Your LOQBOX Savings
For a limited time only, when you sign up to LOQBOX, make your first payment and invite a friend we’ll give you both a chance to double your LOQBOX savings. So if you win we’ll match every pound you save, for both of you. Save together, win together, get financially fit and achieve your one big goal for 2021 together.
What your credit score has to do with achieving your one big goal
Most of the big goals in life take money to be achieved. From buying a house (for which you’ll need to save a hefty deposit and get approved for a mortgage), to getting married (the average cost of a wedding in the UK is now £16,005), or even reskilling to make a career change (courses can cost tens of thousands of pounds) — achieving the things we want to in life often requires both a big lump sum of cash and good financial health.
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Buying a Home
What credit score do you need to buy a house?
For many people in the UK, their first encounter with credit scores is when they start looking at how to buy a house. Why? Because their credit score can give them a pretty good indicator of how likely they are to be successful in applying for a mortgage. What credit score do you need to…
Buying a house with your boyfriend or girlfriend
So you’re in a great relationship, you think you’ve found the one, and now you’re looking to buy a house with that special person. You’re getting a kick out of day-dreaming about what your home together will be like. Perhaps fantasising about picking out paints, and splashing a little over each other’s faces playfully while…
Moving to the UK
Moving back to the UK: A checklist for global citizens
You’re here because you’ve made the decision to move back home to the UK after living abroad for a period of time, or you’re thinking about it. Last time we looked at the things that may affect you unexpectedly when moving back to the UK. In that article we explored some of the challenges you…
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Three things that may affect you unexpectedly when moving back home to the UK
With everything going on in the world at the moment, understandably global citizens living abroad are considering whether it’s time to move back home to the UK. Two forces in particular are converging simultaneously to prompt British expats to think about making the move home. The first is Covid-19, and the second? Brexit. Without a…
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Students
How to prepare financially for life after university
Staying in is the new going out. It’s very 2020. But what do you do with all the money and time you save when you don’t go out on a Friday night? Though your past self might be utterly flabbergasted by the thought of spending that time and money on preparing financially for life after…
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Starting university? Here are 12 tips on becoming a financially savvy student
If you’re getting ready to start university, then this blog is an essential read for you. Because learning to manage your finances now can make the next few years of university life much easier, happier and fun. That’s a hat trick of joy that can be achieved pretty simply with adequate planning and preparation.
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