Kara Gammell
Finance expert
Kara Gammell is an award-winning financial journalist with more than a decade of experience writing for national newspapers and magazines such as The Daily Telegraph, The Sunday Times, Good Housekeeping, The Metro, The Guardian, The Observer, Marie Claire, The Sun, Cosmopolitan and The Radio Times.
As well as contributing to Compare the Market, Kara has also regularly commentated on consumer issues on television and radio stations such as Talk Radio, BBC You & Yours, BBC Moneybox, BBC Wake Up to Money and Times Radio.
Kara is the founder of a money saving blog called Your Best Friend's Guide to Cash, which promises to help you get more bang for your buck, no matter what your budget.
Her first book, Your Best Friend’s Guide to Cash: Eight Things Every Woman Needs to Know About Money, was published by Harriman House in 2014.
Originally from Nova Scotia, Canada, Kara lives with her daughter in West Sussex.
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Read moreAll articles by Kara Gammell
- Get paid to recycle
- The support that you never knew you had: legal expenses insurance.
- How thieves use property portals to rob your home, and what you can do to stop it
- Psychological hacks you can use to stop you overspending
- Stranger danger: how to safeguard your child against in-gaming theft
- How Do Smoking & Vaping Affect Life Insurance?
- What is a Waiver of Premium?
- What Are Penny Policies And How Can You Track One Down?
- Life insurance and access to medical records: a guide
- Personal Wearables - Life Insurance
- Life Insurance and Mental Health
- How And When To Make A Will
- Life Insurance During Your Pregnancy
- Family income benefit
- Income Protection Insurance for Self Employed
- The executor of a will
- Cohabiting Couples
- Why stay-at-home mums and dads need life insurance
- Life Insurance For New Parents
- Is Critical Illness Cover Worth It?
- Five ways to get your spending back on track this September
- Energy hacks that could save you cash
- Lifestyle and life insurance
- Fake delivery scam texts soar in pandemic: what you can do to keep yourself safe
- How to backdate your Black Friday bargains
- Five things you need to know about the Autumn Budget 2021
- How I’m using jam jars to teach my daughter about budgeting
- Couch to £5k: How to get your finances fighting fit in 2022
- How reducing food waste can help you save cash
- Identity theft: What to do when the fraudster is actually someone you know
- Five watch-outs to avoid being swindled by a fake romance
- Budget-friendly activities for kids
- How to get travel insurance when you have cancer
- 10 ways to save on your next staycation
- Five secrets for managing money for those with ADHD
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- How to make your food shop VAT free
- What’s your financial secret sauce?
- Debt After Death – Your Complete Guide