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The Sun
2 days ago
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- The Sun
How to make £5k in extra cash for summer from earning from your sun lounger to getting paid to water plants
YOU can avoid the summer holiday pinch with these easy ways to earn extra money. Most can be done from home and you can even involve your kids. 5 You can currently earn £1,000 from side-hustles tax free, and this will rise to £3,000 from next April. Here, Mel Hunter reports success stories and reveals how you can cash in by doing a few extra jobs. Archie, 8, made £3k from a market stall MAKE money with your kids — and teach them about managing finances at the same time. Selling old toys, handmade crafts or even lemonade can be a fun way to earn money. 5 Eight-year-old Archie from Market Harborough, Leics, has made more than £3,000 since setting up his own market stall, alongside regular traders 18 months ago. He set up his first stall in Harborough Market in March last year, selling old toys. Now he flogs games he and his friends no longer want to keep, too. He uses his profits to buy jewellery, fidget toys, sweets and keyrings to resell. Mum Jodie, 45, a digital marketing manager, says: 'He still does normal eight-year-old things, like spending time with friends and playing football, but alongside that he's beginning a profitable side hustle. It's amazing.' Archie keeps track of his money via his GoHenry account, a financial app and card for kids. How a 'Car Sitter' Is Saving New Yorkers From Costly Parking Fines Cash in on demand for seasonal items HAVE a clearout and flog in-demand seasonal items. Online marketplace Gumtree says listings for items such as barbecues, lawnmowers, hoses, and garden furniture sets soar over summer. We've spotted used lawnmowers for £20 and garden hose reels for £30. Sell spring and summer clothes on sites like Vinted or Depop, and kids games on eBay. Professional organiser Karen Powell, dubbed The Organising Lady, said: 'Wash, iron and display clothes on hangers, before taking pictures. 'With unwanted toys, put any unboxed bits in bags. Check you have all the pieces for kits or jigsaws. Mention any missing pieces when you list your item.' Gather old tech, like phones and tablets, wipe them clear of your details by backing up your information, removing linked accounts and restoring factory settings, and sell on sites like Music Magpie. A decent quality iPhone 14 can go for around £230. Use meal vouchers in hols FAMILIES spend an extra £300 on food over the summer, according to Iceland. Save money by taking your free school meal vouchers to bigger Iceland stores. Spend a minimum of £15 and get an extra £5 on your Iceland Bonus card. Use apps like HyperJar, Cheddar and JamDoughnut to buy supermarket gift cards and earn cashback. With Cheddar, buy a Tesco gift card worth any amount and get four per cent cashback. So if you buy a card for £100, you get £4 back. Do surveys on sun lounger MAKE money from your sofa or sun lounger by taking part in surveys or online focus groups. Companies like Angelfish Opinions, Saros or Research Opinions, can pay up to £100, often as an e-gift card. Your views on brands and experiences are valuable, and can help shape the future. At Angelfish Opinions, you can apply to be interviewed about eating out for a £70 e-gift card. And check out competitions sites, such as Latest Free Stuff and Magic Freebies. 'I move into my van and rent my house for £5k' RENT out your spare room, or even move out so others can move in, to make money. This is what Suzy Greenwood does. The PR manager, who also runs the Seaflowers guesthouse in Frogmore, Devon, makes around £5,000 from May to September by moving out of her home into a VW Caddy. She rents out her one-bed home — an annex attached to the riverside guesthouse — on Airbnb and makes about £300 a weekend after fees. Suzy, 39, said: 'Moving to the van means I can take advantage of the extra summer demand. I make about £300 a weekend after Airbnb fees and cleaning costs. 'Airbnb takes 20 per cent, so if I get a direct booking I split the benefit with guests, giving them a ten per cent discount.' Want to rent out a spare room? The Government's Rent A Room scheme lets you earn up to £7,500 per year tax-free. Or rent out your parking space with a platform such as YourParkingSpace or JustPark. JustPark hosts make an average of £320 a year. 'I made £100 in a week doing small jobs locally' YOU can be paid to water plants, mow the lawn or even look after pets. Check local Facebook groups and apps like Nextdoor and Airtasker to find adverts for small jobs. Airtasker reckons you could make up to £554 a month doing two gardening jobs a week. Jo Atwell, 38, from Peterborough, uses the Nextdoor app and does cleaning, gardening and runs errands for her older neighbour, earning about £12 an hour. She made £100 in her first week this summer, which will pay for a camping trip for her and daughter Reanna, 20. Jo said: 'I want- ed to take Reanna camping in Scotland and it's now possible thanks to the money I've earned via Nextdoor.' John Odiaka, 28, from Coventry, picks up seasonal work, doing removals and gardening via the casual jobs app Airtasker, which sees activity soar by nearly a third in the summer. 'At this time of year, I might do two or three jobs a day, earning up to £2,000 a month,' he said. Last summer, he made £5,000. BEST FIRMS FOR HAGGLING THE top firms to haggle with on bills have been revealed by MoneySaving Expert Martin Lewis – and you could save hundreds of pounds. The money saving website asked 5,000 readers if they got a discount on bills after haggling. 5 AA Breakdown ranked highest, with 87 per cent of customers negotiating better deals, followed by Virgin Media and RAC Breakdown, both at 84 per cent. Meanwhile Hastings Direct came with a 77 per cent success rate, Admiral and TalkTalk with 75 per cent, AA Insurance at 74 per cent, Green Flag at 73 per cent, and Sky Mobile and NOW at 72 per cent. The key to haggling success is knowing the market value of services and asking companies to match or beat it. Martin said: 'Breakdown cover, broadband and TV, mobile, and car and home insurance providers are the fab four. With all of them, the important first step is to benchmark a realistic quote you can ask them to match or beat. The aim of haggling in these sectors is all about keeping the exact service you have (or bettering it) and paying less. 'There's no point if you're within contract – you're trapped. So wait until you're no longer locked in.' Customers can make a note in their diary a month or two before a contract ends as you should be able to negotiate a good deal. You can use comparison sites such as MoneySupermarket or Comparethemarket to check out cheaper options. James Flanders QUICKER MOBILE COMPO MOBILE and broadband customers could resolve issues or get compensation more quickly under new rules being introduced by the telecoms regulator. Currently, anyone who complains but doesn't get a response or isn't happy with the answer must wait eight weeks before they can take the issue to an ombudsman. 5 However, Ofcom wants to reduce this time to six weeks and the change will come into play in April 2026. Rocio Concha, Which? director of policy and advocacy, described the move as 'positive'. She said: 'Recent Which? research found eight in ten suffered a connection issue with their broadband provider in the year to January 2025. 'Providers need to up their game so problems are resolved as quickly as possible.' Under current rules, if your supplier does not resolve the issue after eight weeks, you can take your case to one of two Alternative Dispute Resolution schemes. Customers can escalate issues to either the Communications Ombudsman or the Communications and Internet Services Adjudication Scheme. Resolving an issue through the ombudsman can lead to a simple apology, or you could be entitled to some compensation. If you are not happy with how your complaint has been resolved, you can switch providers. Laura McGuire
BBC News
21-04-2025
- Sport
- BBC News
Leicestershire thwarted by Lancs and the weather
Rothesay County Championship Division Two, Emirates Old Trafford (day four)Lancashire 263: Harris 77; Scriven 5-46 & 90-3: Bohannon 45*; Holland 2-22Leicestershire 491-8 dec: Handscomb 142*, Ahmed 100, Hill 64; J Turner 2-44Lancashire (11 pts) drew with Leics (15 pts)Match scorecard The County Championship match between Lancashire and Leicestershire ended in a draw after the home side's fourth-wicket pair, Josh Bohannon and Marcus Harris, safely negotiated what could have been a tricky final session at Emirates Old on 16-3 at 16:30 BST after persistent rain had prevented play getting under way in the first two sessions at Manchester, Bohannon and Harris extended their stand to an unbroken 79 and had taken their side to 90-3 by the time the draw was agreed with a minimum of eight overs left to be that point, Bohannon was 45 not out and Harris was unbeaten on 34. However, the last session was not without its alarms for the home side. Bohannon was dropped twice in the opening seven overs by wicketkeeper Ben Cox off the bowling of Ian Holland, although neither chance was take 15 points from the game to Lancashire's 11 and the visitors will have left the ground disappointed not to have had a longer opportunity to press home their home team had gone into the final day still needing 212 runs to avoid an innings defeat and Keaton Jennings' players might be grateful for the week off they will have before their next game, at home to Gloucestershire on 2-5 May, when it is expected that James Anderson will make his first appearance of the on the other hand, will remain among the Division Two leaders after this round of fixtures and will travel to Bristol for their match against Gloucestershire in good Reporters Network supported by Rothesay
BBC News
20-04-2025
- Sport
- BBC News
Ahmed and Handscomb tighten Foxes' grip against Lancs
Rothesay County Championship Division Two, Emirates Old Trafford (day three)Lancashire 263: Harris 77; Scriven 5-46 & 16-3: Bohannon 9*; Holland 2-6Leicestershire 491-8 dec: Handscomb 142*, Ahmed 100, Hill 64; J Turner 2-44Lancashire (3 pts) trail Leics (7 pts) by 212 runsMatch scorecard Rehan Ahmed and Peter Handscomb both made centuries as Leicestershire tightened their grip on the third day of their County Championship match at Emirates Old to Lancashire's 263, the visitors declared at 491-8, giving them a lead of 228, with Handscomb unbeaten on 142. Left with eight overs to survive, Lancashire ended the day on 16-3, Keaton Jennings having been bowled between bat and pad for a second-ball duck by Ian Holland, who also had nightwatchman Anderson Phillip lbw for home side's utter misery was completed when Michael Jones was bowled for four by a ball from Logan van Beek that kept lowSo for the second time in two games on this ground, Lancashire must bat out the final day for a draw having been outplayed by their the first 16 overs of the morning, Ahmed and Holland, Leicestershire's overnight pair, scored 68 runs and displayed almost complete command of the Lancashire attack. The climax of this period of play came when Ahmed reached his hundred, the second of his first-class career, off 147 balls with 14 two balls later, the centurion was caught at silly mid-off by Josh Bohannon off Tom Hartley for exactly 100 and this ushered in the second half of the session in which the visitors managed only 54 runs in 18 overs for the loss of Holland, who was caught at mid-on by Saqib Mahmood for 35 when he miscued a pull off John wicket fell just three overs after that of Ahmed and the new batsmen, Lewis Hill and Handscomb to rebuild the innings with some cautious strokes. Nevertheless, the fourth-wicket pair displayed greater aggression towards the end of the session, most notably when Hill took ten runs off three balls from George Balderson, and that trend was maintained deep into the hundred partnership came up and Hill reached his fifty in 91 balls and 115 minutes. Lancashire took the new ball and Handscomb got to his half-century in three balls more having taken nine minutes pair had extended their partnership to 130 before two wickets fell in three overs. Hill skied a pull to Michael Jones at midwicket off Balderson and departed for 64 and then Louis Kimber was bowled for eight when trying to hit all round a ball from Turner. That left Leicestershire on 331-5 but Handscomb and Ben Cox increased the run rate after tea and took their side to the verge of a fourth bonus point with a sixth-wicket stand of reached the 27th century of his career off 170 balls, having hit ten fours, before Cox holed out on the deep square leg boundary for 31, Luke Wells taking the catch to give Mahmood his second wicket of the success brought Lancashire their third bonus point of the match but Leicestershire collected their seventh with 11 balls to spare, van Beek nudging the single that took his side past 400. The visitors' acceleration continued deep into the evening session as wickets were traded for Beek made 29 before he was bowled by Wells and Ben Green five before he was castled by Hartley, who finished with 2-151 off 44 overs, the most he has bowled in any game. Turner took 2-44 and Mahmood total is their highest at Old Trafford and only two short of the most they have ever scored against LancashireECB Reporters' Network supported by Rothesay
BBC News
19-04-2025
- Sport
- BBC News
Scriven stars as Leics dominate at Lancashire
Rothesay County Championship Division Two, Emirates Old Trafford (day two)Lancashire 263: Harris 77; Scriven 5-46Leicestershire 120-1: Ahmed 61*Leics (3 pts) trail Lancashire (1 pt) by 143 runsMatch scorecard Tom Scriven collected his maiden five-wicket haul in first-class cricket as Leicestershire dominated the second day of their County Championship match against Lancashire at Emirates Old accurately and at good pace, the Leicestershire seamer finished with 5-46 from 20 overs as the home side were dismissed for 263, Marcus Harris making 77 against his former team-mates, his fourth score over 50 in five innings for his new reply, Leicestershire were 120-1 after 29 overs at the close with Rehan Ahmed unbeaten on 61 after putting on 102 for the first wicket with Sol Budinger. The visitors therefore have a superb platform upon which to build a first-innings lead on the third day of this brisk pace at which the Leicestershire openers scored was in notable contrast to the more guarded approach of the Lancashire batsmen, who managed to score at 2.7 runs an over against Peter Handscomb's nagging five-man pace in a shortened first session, Lancashire scored 92 runs in 24 overs for the loss of Matty Hurst, who was lbw to Scriven for 46, and in the temporary absence of Luke Wells, who was forced to retire hurt on nine when in obvious pain after being struck on the left elbow by a ball from Ben a lunch score of 153-4 looked a useful score in cloudy conditions. Only Harris had batted with any certainty against Leicestershire's quicker bowlers and even the Australian was dismissed 40 minutes into the afternoon session when he was lbw to a ball from Scriven that nipped back. Harris' 77 meant that he has an aggregate of 360 at an average of 72 for his new Hartley was then run out for 11 after a mix-up with George Balderson that saw the England spinner run about one and a half pitches before being beaten by Lewis Hill's throw from wide mid-off. Wells returned and had put on an unbroken 34 with Balderson at tea, by which time Lancashire were 235-6 after 87 overs and Leicestershire had taken the new first half-hour of the evening session belonged to Scriven, who trapped Wells in front for 29 to collect his third lbw of the day and then bowled George Balderson for 51, two balls after the left-hander had reached his half-century, before having Anderson Phillip caught behind for Beek ended the innings when he had John Turner caught for a golden duck by first slip Louis Kimber and attention shifted to Leicestershire's innings and Saqib Mahmood's first red-ball match since last Leicestershire openers had one slice of luck when Budinger was dropped on nought, his edge off Mahmood's eleventh ball flying very rapidly between Michael Jones and Keaton Jennings at first and second Ahmed and Budinger put bat to ball in magnificent and sometimes contemptuous fashion. Their fifty stand came up in 61 balls and the century in 19.4 overs. Some relief came for Lancashire when Budinger, having been dropped on 31 by Josh Bohannon off Hartley, was caught by the same fielder for 41 at mid-on when he miscued a pull off ended the opening partnership on 102 but Ahmed reached his fifty off 77 balls and he and Holland took their side safely to the Reporters' Network supported by Rothesay
BBC News
18-04-2025
- Sport
- BBC News
Leics take three Lancashire wickets before rain
Rothesay County Championship Division Two, Emirates Old Trafford (day one)Lancashire 61-3: Harris 19*; Holland 2-13Leicestershire: Yet to batLancs 0 pts, Leics 1 ptMatch scorecard Lancashire's batters might be grateful that only one session of play was possible on the opening day of their County Championship match against Leicestershire at Emirates Old Trafford as they fell to being asked to bat first in cloudy conditions, Keaton Jennings' side had proceeded uncertainly to lunch before the light showers that prevented a resumption coalesced into the steady drizzle that caused play to be abandoned at 16:30 the first hour of play, the former Hampshire all-rounder, Ian Holland, got plenty of help from the pitch and removed both Michael Jones, bowled between bat and pad for ten, and Keaton Jennings, caught at first slip for nine in an eight-over spell that cost only 13 were 19-2 when Jennings was out and the third-wicket pair, Josh Bohannon and Marcus Harris, then batted with understandable caution, only six runs being scored in the first seven overs of their 25-run having made nine in nearly an hour, Bohannon was caught down the leg side by Ben Cox off Ben Mike and the session could have gone even better for Leicestershire had not Cox and third slip, Rehan Ahmed, dropped Matty Hurst twice in his first nine it was, Lancashire reached lunch on 61-3 after 31 overs and might well have reflected that the session could have gone much worse for them. Harris was 19 not out after facing 54 balls in 88 minutes and Hurst was unbeaten on 13 after his two session maintained Leicestershire's fine start to the campaign. Handscomb's team came into this game at the top of the early-season table whereas Lancashire, the pre-season favourites for promotion, are fourth, 16 points behind their current opponents and without a win from their matches against Middlesex and Reporters' Network supported by Rothesay
