Our Blog
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Choosing a mobile phone
Do you need to choose a mobile for yourself as an older person or for an older loved one? Here are our top tips.
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Helping you tame your admin
Is your admin out of control? Do you have papers everywhere? Do you miss appointments regularly or miss deadlines?
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Planning for the inevitable
The inevitable will happen to all of us and it’s good to get planning and talking about it before we go. The inevitable might be that your attorneys need to…
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Getting Care At Home
So, you’ve decided that the best thing for your loved one (or you) is to get some help with care at home. It could be help with meals, or with…
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How to effectively deal with post
Do you find you get post that you don’t deal with? It is very boring after all! You do need to open it so it doesn’t get lost, but you…
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Tax in retirement
HMRC should send you a PAYE coding notice each year, unless they believe that a source of PAYE income is not chargeable to tax, or if you do not have…
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Getting online to make your life easier – part 2
Following on from our first ten reasons to learn the internet last week, here are some more reasons to learn the internet..
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Getting on line to make your life easier
More and more companies are making our lives ‘easier’ by delivering their services online. But it’s only ‘easier’ if you grew up with computers or have used them for your…
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Choosing your attorneys
You don’t have to have the same attorneys for both health and welfare and finance. You can have different ones.
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Power of Attorney
Have you written and registered your power of attorney yet? You’re never too young; it doesn’t matter what age you are, if something happens to you and you can’t make…
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Passports and identity
Passports are not just for trips abroad. They are a very useful piece of ID and, if possible, make sure you keep yours renewed even if you don’t think you’ll…
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Getting your home ready to downsize
So you’ve decided to downsize and you are putting your home on the market. So, what should you do to get it ready?
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When should you downsize?
There is never a good time to downsize. Many of our clients wish they’d done it much sooner, but acknowledge they probably thought they were invincible 10 years earlier.
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Halfway through January
We’re over halfway through the month of January. You don’t have to declutter your whole home in one month, but if you need some inspiration to keep going here are a…
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Continuing the decluttering
Declutter first, organise afterwards (you can’t organise until you know what you have).
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January decluttering
It is traditional in January to take stock of our lives and make changes, hopefully for the better. One of these changes is often to ‘get organised’, and decluttering is…
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SSBN Meeting Dates & Links
Next Meeting Dates Thursday 27th November 2025, 12:00-13:00 Thursday 12th March 2026, 12:00-13:00 Thursday 11th June 2026, 12:00-13:00 Thursday 10th September 2026, 12:00-13:00 Online on Zoom: Register here Online on…