New Year, New Funding

Funding deadline coming up

It’s already January, which means there’s just over a month to go until our next funding deadline. We have £3m of grant funding available in 2025. If you have an idea for a research, campaign or policy project which will help people on low-to-middle incomes and needs funding, have a look at our Funding Guidelines and get in touch. The deadline is 1pm on 5th February.

One in eight households potentially over-insuring

Polling by the Trust and University of Bristol encourages consumers to think about whether they might be over-insuring their new items. 13% of households with contents insurance are also insuring three or more other items separately. Read more

More feel Budget tax rises were necessary than not 

Our latest Tracker asked people about the 2024 Budget. More feel Budget tax rises were necessary than not, even though they think they will be worse-off. We also asked about potential future tax increases; would they support them?
Find out what people said

The Pensions Review

This year will see the final report and recommendations from the Pensions Review, a two-and-a-half-year review of pensions policy by the Institute for Fiscal Studies in partnership with the Trust. So far, the review has conducted research into a number of areas including the future of the state pension and private pensions for the self-employed. You can read all the reports here.

Podcast - Inheritance Tax

A debate that is sure to go on well into 2025 is inheritance tax. Last month Mubin spoke to Dan Goss from Demos and David Sturrock from the Institute for Fiscal Studies about their research on inheritance tax. Listen here or wherever you get your podcasts.
For more information on inheritance tax you can read the following reports funded by the Trust:

- Inheritance Tax reliefs: time for reform?
- Options to repair inheritance taxation in Britain
- Raising revenue from closing inheritance tax loopholes