FACT visit

On 13th May I visited Joanne Smith in Newcastle. Joanne is the founder and CEO of one of the charities that Insurancewith supports, FACT (Fighting All Cancers Together). The visit was for a talk and advice session for FACT service users on travel insurance for people diagnosed with cancer. 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

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

“Who Cares Award” Nominations have now closed

Further to my original blog, the nominations for our “Who Cares Award” have now closed.  I have been going through the nominations this morning and have been amazed by the nominees and their stories; I will admit tears have been shed.

The idea behind the awards was to recognise the selfless work carers do and the sacrifices they make, and hi-light the fact that anyone can become a carer.  Read more
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