101 things to do when you survive

The title of this blog is also the name of the web site that Greig Trout has designed so people can follow his adventured around the world.
Greig is a double cancer survivor and instead of the bucket list of things to do before you die he has turned it on its head and made a list of 101 things he wants to do to because he has survived.
I initially heard about Greig’s fantastic plan when he approached Insurancewith for a travel insurance quote to cover his yearlong adventure.  Read more

How are our charitable donations spent?

The FACT Team

One of the unique points about the Insurancewith travel insurance policies with cancer cover is the £1 donation to charity for every policy sold. We support a couple of charities through the sales of our policies, one of which is Fighting All Cancers Together (FACT).  Today we have a guest blog from Joanne Smith the CEO and founder of FACT.  Joanne explains the importance the money Insurancewith donates has to the work FACT does and explains a little bit about what the money is used for.  Read more

Who Cares Award presentation lunch

The day of our award lunch finally dawned yesterday.  As many of our medical travel insurance customers will know we have been running an award in association with Genetic Alliance UK to find the UK’s most extraordinary carer, and yesterday we held the celebration lunch.
The nominations we received were of the highest calibre, and our judge, Andrew Holt, Editor of Charity Times had a very difficult job picking a winner and runner up, but pick them he did. Read more

Don’t Get Done In The Sun

I was really pleased to be asked to take part in the above BBC program which was shown yesterday. The episode I was asked to take part in was about medical conditions travel insurance.  The program featured a case study of ours from the Daily Mail  featuring one of our customers, Rita.
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And the winner is …..

 

As regular readers of our blog will know, back in April we launched our Who Cares Award to find the UK’s most extraordinary carer.  Over the years through our medical conditions travel insurance policies we have helped thousands of people take relaxing breaks, giving them the much needed peace of mind that if something goes wrong, we will look after them.  In creating the Who Cares Award, we have taken that one step further, by recognising those that care, many dedicating their life to help others. Read more
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