Iona Bain is an award-winning writer, author, speaker and broadcaster who specialises in personal finance. She came to prominence as the founder of Young Money Blog, the first blog in the UK devoted to young people’s finances.
Young Money was founded in 2011 and went onto become one of the most pioneering and influential personal finance blogs in the UK. Iona retired from active blogging in 2021 to concentrate on other exciting projects but you can find out more about what Young Money has achieved below, and the wealth of knowledge Iona built up around young people’s finances over 10 years.
IONA BAIN Ethical shopping is growing at more than three times the rate of general retail spending, and local shopping is fighting back against online. So says the annual report…
Iona Bain It's been a breakthrough year on the blog. We won an award in November for Money Blogger of the Year at the Santander Media Awards. Our spin-off book Spare Change…
Iona Bain It’s supposed to be a time of festive cheer but Christmas, and all the spending pressures that come with it, may bring only misery for thousands of people in…
In the run-up to Christmas, we're running a special Debt Tamers series, focusing on why young people feel the need to borrow money to fund the festive season, how they get…
Iona Bain ‘Always winter, never Christmas’...(Chronicles of Narnia CS Lewis) Are you still here? Oh good - you survived Blue Monday then. Apparently yesterday was the day when all the…
Iona Bain More than a quarter of consumers have overspent and gone into debt to fund the festive season, according to Aviva. The financial giant has revealed that reckless spenders…
Iona Bain This Christmas, more than a quarter of Scots will spread some festive joy by giving to charity. But how do they know if their donations will make a…
Sick of Black Friday? Well, you can have a classier Christmas shopping experience - if you know where to go. This article is packed with tips on how to get the…
Iona Bain Shoppers hoping to grab a bargain in this months’s Black Friday sales need to be on their mettle for distorted discounts and the growing dominance of shopping giant…
Disclaimer: This is what we like to (politely) call a “heritage” blog. That means we haven’t updated the information here since publication (although we have tidied up the format). A…
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