{"id":1218,"date":"2008-12-04T07:30:35","date_gmt":"2008-12-04T07:30:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ukhomeideas.co.uk\/ideas\/home-finance\/valerie-singleton-launches-%e2%80%98discount-age%e2%80%99-website"},"modified":"2008-12-04T07:30:55","modified_gmt":"2008-12-04T07:30:55","slug":"valerie-singleton-launches-%e2%80%98discount-age%e2%80%99-website","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ukhomeideas.co.uk\/ideas\/home-finance\/valerie-singleton-launches-%e2%80%98discount-age%e2%80%99-website\/","title":{"rendered":"Valerie Singleton Launches \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcDiscount-Age\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 Website"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ukhomeideas.co.uk\/images\/discount-age\/surfers.jpg\" alt=\"Valerie Singleton Launches \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcDiscount-Age\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 For 60 Pluses \" class=\"right\" \/>Valerie Singleton OBE, Nigel Houghton (Managing Director) and a small group of colleagues, have launched www.discount-age.co.uk, a new money saving website for all the 60-pluses in the UK.<\/p>\n<p>With the UK economy on its way into recession, 60-pluses are likely to be badly hit; not only because they are living on fixed pensions, but also the drop in share prices has actually cut the value of many pensions by up to 25%.<\/p>\n<p>With over 12 million people in the UK over 60, many already suffering the effects of the downturn, the new website offers a one-stop shop for this diverse and growing market, offering hundreds of ways to save money through information, advice, discounts and comment.<\/p>\n<p>Some of the many topics covered on the website include, Mind and Body, Travel, Hotels, Holidays, Insurance, Entertainment, Food and Drink, Home and Garden, Money and Work.<\/p>\n<p>Valerie welcomes visitors to the new website, with her monthly webcast on the homepage.<\/p>\n<p>The website is free to all &#8211; however, for an annual fee of just \u00c2\u00a310, visitors can become members and enjoy a growing number of exclusive additional benefits and discounts, negotiated especially for discount-age members with international, national and regional organisations.<\/p>\n<p>The cost of membership can be easily recovered from these discounts.<\/p>\n<p>Launch discounts include holidays, wine, a car club, food, flowers and even spectacles.<\/p>\n<p>All members will receive a monthly e-newsletter, to keep them up to date with new offers, discounts and developments; the aim for the year is to find and negotiate up to \u00c2\u00a32,500 of discounts for members.<\/p>\n<p>The first crop of discounts is worth about \u00c2\u00a3350.<\/p>\n<p>60-pluses, discover how to get the best deals here:<\/p>\n<p>Web: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.discount-age.co.uk\/\">http:\/\/www.discount-age.co.uk<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Valerie Singleton OBE, Nigel Houghton (Managing Director) and a small group of colleagues, have launched www.discount-age.co.uk, a new money saving website for all the 60-pluses in the UK. With the UK economy on its way into recession, 60-pluses are likely to be badly hit; not only because they are living on fixed pensions, but also the drop in share prices has actually cut the value of many pensions by up to 25%. With over 12 million people in the UK over 60, many already suffering the effects of the downturn, the new website offers a one-stop shop for this diverse &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ukhomeideas.co.uk\/ideas\/home-finance\/valerie-singleton-launches-%e2%80%98discount-age%e2%80%99-website\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[82,273],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ukhomeideas.co.uk\/ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1218"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ukhomeideas.co.uk\/ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ukhomeideas.co.uk\/ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ukhomeideas.co.uk\/ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ukhomeideas.co.uk\/ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1218"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.ukhomeideas.co.uk\/ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1218\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ukhomeideas.co.uk\/ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ukhomeideas.co.uk\/ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ukhomeideas.co.uk\/ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}