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Navigating a narrowboat through a canal lock requires a great deal of team work. Heading downstream, you first need to prepare the lock for your boat to enter. If a boat has been through the lock heading in the same direction before you, this means closing the downstream gates, opening the upstream paddles and refilling […]

We’ve been pleased to call Cranleigh our home since the formation of Informed Choice in 1994. The place that claims to be the largest village in England has been home to the Bamford family since the early 1980s, when Informed Choice founder Nick relocated from working in Gloucester to a new job in Wembley. In […]

We are delighted to announce that our Financial Planning Director, Shelley McCarthy, has received a prize for her exam scores last year. Shelley was selected as winner of the Advanced Diploma in Financial Planning award for the highest exam scores in 2017. The prize was presented at the Guildford Insurance Institute annual dinner last month. […]

Last week we hosted our first ‘client advisory board’ meeting, which took place over the road at Cranleigh Arts Centre. This meeting was a gathering of a small number of our local clients, as a forum for discussion about the things we do at Informed Choice and how we might do things better in the […]

Informed Choice is pleased to be headline sponsor for the Cranleigh Literary Festival again in 2018 at Cranleigh Arts Centre. Here’s a sample of some of the things happening during the Cranleigh Literary Festival this year. The Festival starts on Wednesday 21st February 2018 with a performance of The Time Machine at 7.30pm. Rebecca Vaughan […]

My presentation at our client advisory board meeting this week shared the story of our favourite investment scam; ‘favourite’ in the sense that it’s the most outrageous we have seen to date. We often think of more vulnerable members of our society as those who fall victim to scams, but in truth even plausible investment recommendations can […]

During our client advisory board meeting this week, I shared the story of Jeanne Calment who lived in Southern France and died on the 4th August 1997 at the age of 122 years 164 days old.  Madam Calment had the longest confirmed human lifespan on record. To put her life in context, Jeanne Calment was born a decade […]

Informed Choice is pleased to make a substantial donation to pay for tree planting in the new Cranleigh Centenary Garden. The special garden project is now starting to take shape. Cranleigh’s new Centenary Garden is designed to honour local people who lost their lives over the past one hundred years in conflict and those left behind […]

With the end of the year fast approaching, we’ve delved into the analytics for our website to see which blog posts were the most read in 2017. Here’s our most popular blog posts this year. Department of Health social care charging structure 2017/18 The Department of Health published a Local Authority Circular confirming the charging […]

We are delighted to share the news that our managing director Martin Bamford has been shortlisted for Expert of the Year at the Headlinemoney Awards 2018. The category is one of six which make up the Excellence in PR element of the 2018 Headlinemoney Awards. Each shortlist was determined by an online vote carried out amongst the […]