Here are some of the latest offers to get you money off gift cards
When you buy gift cards for yourself or as a present, it’s really important you make a note of the expiration date and don’t forget about them at the bottom of the drawer! There are more details on what to watch out for in our article five things you need to know about gift cards.
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Gift card special offers
Tesco: 20% off gift cards
Tesco is selling a variety of gift cards for 20% off until 15 June 2025.
The gift cards available include:
Virgin Experiences – including Afternoon Tea, driving experiences and spa experiences.
Over on our Amazon deals page, we’ve got a couple of deals where you get extra money when topping up your account or buying a gift card. These offers tend to run most of the year, though they are normally only for people who haven’t done either of these in the last three years.
Amazon also offers discounts on some retailer gift cards, especially in the run-up to Christmas and during shopping promotions like Cyber Monday and Black Friday.
Amazon: up to 20% off gift cards, including Lastminute, One4All and ODEON (ended)
Amazon is currently offering a number of discounted gift cards until 31 March 2025, including:
Candy Crush Google Play
Hotels .com
Lastminute
One4All
ODEON
Just Eat
Roblox
Uber & Uber Eats
Vue
Some offers are for digital cards, while others are for physical ones. Discount varies between 10% and 20% and check the terms on each gift card to ensure you’re meeting the minimum spend levels.
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Cashback on gift cards
JamDoughnut: cashback when you buy gift cards
With JamDoughnut, you can buy gift cards both as gifts and for everyday purchases and earn cashback on them. Plus, if you’re a new JamDoughnut user, you can get a £4 welcome bonus using our link* (double what you’d usually get).
Retailers on the app include supermarkets like Asda, Sainsbury’s, Tesco and M&S.
TopCashback has a spin-off site called TopGiftCards with money back on brands including Asda, Ticketmaster, Uber, Costa and Clarks. You need to click through from TopCashback and choose your gift card.
These are all digital gift cards but check the individual retailer terms to see if it can be spent in-store, online or both. Cashback is then paid back to your TopCashback account.
You can earn cashback in two ways with Cheddar: buying gift cards through the app, earning instant cashback, as well as by spending at specific retailers with a linked account.
There are more than 80 brands in the app, and once again, you can get cashback from supermarkets like Tesco, Asda and Morrisons. Use the code CLEVER2 when signing up to get £2 welcome cashback.
From freebies to money off, if we spot a great deal on beauty products we’ll list them here.
You can always get beauty discounts and freebies at various retailers. Here’s our pick of the best savings right now.
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Space NK offers
Space NK: up to 20% off with £5 charity donation
This is a decent opportunity to stock up on beauty essentials (and luxuries) as you can get up to 20% off at Space NK until 2 June 2025
You must donate £5 to the charity Switchboard LGBT+ via Space NK’s link, and then you’ll get a unique code to use.
This includes rarely discounted brands such as Diptyque – only a handful of items are excluded, which you can see here. You can’t use the deal on gift cards or sale items either.
Download the Lidl Plus app, and in the partner offers section you’ll find you can claim a free eye test (worth £30) and get 30% off frames, as long as you spend £50 on prescription glasses at Vision Express.
You can get two or three full-sized products from Grüum (worth up to £43) for just the cost of delivery (£3.95).
There are several bundles to choose between, although some are often out of stock. The options include skin cleansers, shampoo bars, body wash bars and body oils, to name a few.
You have to pay £3.95 for delivery, but for a couple of products, that’s not bad.
If you join Lush’s UK loyalty club then new or existing account holders can get a £3 welcome voucher if they sign into the latest version of the app before 8 October 2024.
You don’t need to do anything to trigger the coupon, though do check if it’s showing in the banner on the app or in the ‘Rewards’ section of the app.
You’ll be able to use the £3 in-store or on purchases via the app. It’ll last three months from activation.
You can get an unusual beauty subscription box from Liberty. If you deposit £25 per month into your Liberty “beauty bank” (essentially buying store credit), then you get a “Discovery Box” four times a year for £5 per month, worth a total of £300 per year.
You’ll still have the credit in your account that you deposited (except the £5 fee for each box), but it can’t be refunded or withdrawn.
What’s in the beauty box?
The box is called The Beauty Drop. You get four per year full of trial-sized products. They’re sent in January, April, July and October and they’ll be worth up to £300 throughout the year.
Remember that just because Liberty would sell the products for £300, it doesn’t mean they’re worth that for you.
The drawbacks
Your typical bank account has protection – you’re protected by up to £85,000 if your bank goes bust. However, your money in the “beauty bank” at Liberty isn’t protected. This means that if Liberty were to go bust, the money you have in the account likely won’t be refunded to you, much like a gift card.
You could mitigate this by spending the money you deposit as soon as you can and not letting a large balance rack up, but Liberty’s high prices might prevent this.
Get more than £60 of birthday freebies from shops and restaurants
Everyone likes to feel extra special on their birthday. Which is why some companies offer birthday freebies, with everything from free cake to a bottle of Prosecco. The best thing about some of these is that you often get a few weeks to claim your freebie, letting you take advantage of more, and spread your birthday out even further.
One birthday, Editor-in-chief Andy managed to bag himself a free meal at his favourite burger joint Meat Liquor, some posh Hotel Chocolat treats, a Body Shop shower gel and he saved money on some flatpack furniture at Ikea, totalling £28 worth of freebies.
And here’s how you can get up to £60 worth of freebies for your birthday.
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How to get birthday freebies
While most retailers’ emails end up unread and clogging up your inbox, when it comes to a few weeks before your birthday, it’s time to pay a little extra attention to them, just in case you’re getting a little gift.
Of course, these brands aren’t giving you something for nothing. In all cases, you need to be signed up for their newsletters, loyalty schemes or apps, which means handing over your data and dealing with constant emails.
If you’re selective, and only pick the brands you regularly shop at and want to hear about, then it’s well worth doing. And often the birthday freebies aren’t the only offers and deals you’ll get sent during the year.
Don’t forget that you can always unsubscribe from emails once you’ve had your birthday, and possibly even sign up again – though it’s worth doing this at least a month before your birthday to allow time for your details to be processed.
One of our writers Nicky Selwood, says that she always gives a different birthday, so she’s got birthdays all year round to make the most out of. The odd one might want ID, so use your real birthday for these ones.
Free food and drink
From smoothies to doughnuts, here’s all the free food and drink you can get on your birthday. We’ve ignored a lot of the offers where you get a free main or bubbly when you buy a main, though there are a couple listed at the bottom of this page. They’re still decent offers, but we’re more excited about the freebies.
If you manage to get a bill for £0, it’s still pretty good form to leave a tip.
Barburrito – free burrito
Barburrito is offering a free burrito on your birthday, as long as you’re signed up to the loyalty app. A few days before your birthday, you’ll be emailed a voucher for a free burrito, which should also show in the app. Show this at the till, and you can eat for free.
You only get four days to claim it, so you have to be quick.
Benugo – free drink
Coffee shop chain Benugo is giving away a free coffee on your birthday. You just need to sign up to the mailing list and you’ll get a free coffee and another on your birthday.
Boost – free drink
If you sign up for the Boost Vibe Club (you can do this online), you can get a free drink on your birthday.
This can be claimed up to 3 days before and 3 days after your birthday.
You need to have earned at least one point and you’ll need to show ID proving that it’s your birthday.
Burger King – free whopper
Add your date of birth to the BK Rewards app and you’ll get a free burger!
Caffé Nero – free cake
If you’re signed up for the free Caffé Nero app and ensure you have your birthday in your settings, you’ll get a voucher for a free slice of cake on your birthday. Plus you can get a free drink for signing up here.
Costa – free cake
If you’re signed up for the free Costa Club you’ll notice a reward for a free slice of cake appear in your app. Costa lets you know it’s there with an email too.
Make sure you’ve told Costa when your birthday is, you can do this in the app.
Greggs – free cake or doughnut
Sign up to the Greggs Rewards scheme via the Greggs app and you’ll be able to claim a free doughnut, cupcake or cream cake. The voucher is valid for a month.
Krispy Kreme – free doughnut
You get a free doughnut via the Friends of Krispy Kreme scheme each year, though it’s only in full shops, not the ones you find in Supermarkets.
With this offer, you can choose any doughnut during your birthday month. When it comes to claiming it, you will need to add the birthday reward to your wallet in the Krispy Kreme app.
Lidl – free doughnut
If you haven’t quite had enough free doughnuts on your birthday, donut worry — you can claim another one from Lidl.
This one is found in the Lidl Plus app and is valid for 7 days from the birthday listed in your Lidl Plus Account.
Lola’s Cupcakes – free 5-inch cake
If you join the Lola’s Cupcakes Love Club more than 30 days before your birthday, then you can get a free small cake on your birthday for free.
You have to show ID that confirms your birth date and you have to prove you’ve been a member of the Love Club for at least 30 days. This excludes Lola’s Bakery in West Hampstead.
Muffin Break – free Muffin
There’s nothin’ like a free muffin on your birthday. By signing up for the Muffin Break loyalty scheme, you can get a free muffin in the month of your birthday.
There’s also a free doughnut for joining, too.
Starbucks – free drink
One for regular Starbucks users. If you join the free Starbucks Rewards scheme and reach Gold level (you need to earn 450 Stars, roughly a spend of £150) you’ll get a free drink on your birthday. You’ll also get other freebies throughout the year at this level. You get a free drink for every 150 stars you collect, so you’ll get 3 free drinks on your attempt to reach Gold.
Subway – free cookie
Join Subway Rewards, add your date of birth and you’ll receive a treat on your birthday, usually a free cookie.
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With these retailers, it could be worth signing up in order to get a free voucher on your birthday. These are often only £5, but you could get yourself a few freebies or take a discount off something you’ve been eyeing up. There’s often no minimum spend, so you can get something for absolutely nothing.
I’ve ignored those that give the likes of 10% off as those kinds of codes are regularly available.
Hobbycraft – £5 voucher
Register for Hobbycraft Club and you’ll be sent a voucher to spend in-store or online on the month of your birthday. You’ll also get a 15% off voucher when you sign up.
Marks & Spencer
M&S didn’t used to guarantee a freebie or voucher on your birthday, but it recently changed the Sparks scheme to get one for everyone signed up to the M&S Sparks card who has signed up for marketing and enters their birthday more than 35 days before via the app.
Freebies could include:
Chocolate Marks bar
All Butter Cookies 8-pack
Outrageously Chocolatey Rounds
All Butter Scottish Shortbread Assortment
Percy Pig sweets
Colin the Caterpillar sweets
Grapes
Blueberries
Hotel Chocolat – £5 voucher
For a free fiver with a £5.50 minimum spend, you just need to be signed up for Hotel Chocolat’s VIP.ME scheme.
The voucher can also be combined with other offers.
Andy actually forgot to do this and registered a few days after his birthday and I still got sent the £5 voucher a few weeks later, so it’s worth giving a go!
Extra points on your birthday
Boots – double points for the whole month
Boots Advantage cardholders get double points for their whole birthday month. This will pop up in your Boots app on the first of the month, and you need to load the deal to your card before you scan it in-store. Check your details in the app to make sure Boots knows its your birthday.
Superdrug – triple points on your birthday
If you have the Superdrug Beautycard, you get triple points on your birthday. The offer is valid for 2 weeks after your birthday. You don’t have to opt in or add it to your card, just make sure Superdrug knows when your birthday is.
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Birthday gifts
Shopmium – free gift
Cashback app Shopmium often provides a special extra offer on your birthday. Andy’s managed to snag a free box of Celebrations.
Sign up for the Hobbs newsletter to get a free birthday gift. We’re not sure what you get, but in 2021 it was a candle. You also get 10% off your first purchase when you sign up.
Space NK – free gift
Again, it’s often a £5 off code but it could be a free miniature. And again you’ll get it by signing up to a membership scheme – for Space NK it’s called N.dulge.
This is a loyalty scheme, so you’ll earn points each time you spend money, which can be converted into money off future purchases.
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Free alcoholic drinks on your birthday
Slug & Lettuce – free bottle of Prosecco
If you’re signed up for the Slug & Lettuce newsletter, you’ll be emailed a code to claim a free bottle of Prosecco on your birthday.
The email says that you have to book a table but we tried it twice (for two birthdays in July) and didn’t book a table either time.
We simply popped the Prosecco into our basket in the app, entered the code and checked out. Within minutes, we had a bottle of Prosecco at the table, and we didn’t even have to order food.
You get lots of time to take advantage of this offer, with the voucher valid for 6 weeks.
Since being signed up for Slug & Lettuce emails, we’ve also nabbed a free Pina Colada on National Pina Colada Day – not to mention that two arrived at the table because it was Happy Hour!
Good birthday offers that aren’t freebies
Sometimes you’ll be sent a discount voucher or a free meal/ bottle of bubbly as long as you get another meal. These can be good and might be worthwhile if you’d like to eat there anyway, but they’re not strictly birthday freebies.
Here are some of the things you can be offered:
Meat Liquor – 20% off the bill
Meat Liquor is one of Andy’s favourite burger places. A few years back you could get a free main meal and a side on your birthday, which he took advantage of.
Sadly it’s now 20% off the entire bill – but that’s still decent if you like the food there. Sign up to the mailing list and you’ll get sent a unique code to use, valid for a week before and after your birthday.
Bills – “free” bottle of Prosecco
Again, not strictly a freebie, as each diner has to order a main meal.
Make sure you’re signed up for the Bill’s Newsletter 4 weeks before your birthday and you’ll get an email with the gift.
You’ll also need to pre-book a table. It’s valid for 5 weeks from the date that you get the email.
Do you know of any other birthday freebies or discounts worth signing up for? Let me know in the comments below.
Our top deals
Here are a few ongoing and recent offers you might have missed:
Try out new apps to help you and your finances and also get a free money bonus or voucher when you do
We love trying out new apps that help us track our spending, put money into savings or earn interest. Often they’ll also come with a welcome or referral offer, and we’ll share these and any other decent ones below.
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Money app welcome offers
Snoop: £5 Amazon Voucher
Snoop is an app to help you track your spending. It also analyses your bank data to suggest ways you can save money. Right now there’s an offer to get a £5 Amazon voucher.
You must go via the link below for the offer to track.
Once you’ve downloaded the app and signed up you need to connect a bank or credit card account and stay connected until the end of the following month. Do this and the voucher will be sent.
Sprive is an auto savings app (more on how these work here) where the money moved from your current account goes towards your mortgage rather than a savings pot. The idea is you’ll slowly make overpayments that’ll get you mortgage-free faster.
The standard referral offer is £5 (it’s occasionally doubled to £10). You’ll need to sign up with a code (such as 5NN3KXFL) and set up a Direct Debit linked to your bank account.
The bonus can only go towards your mortgage – so sadly if you’re not a homeowner this won’t be one for you.
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Money data offers
YouGov Connections: earn up to £55 a year
Share your banking data with YouGov and you’ll earn 5 points a day per account, worth 5p. You can add three current accounts, which over a year adds up to just under £55. Our full guide to YouGov Connections explains more.
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Expired offers
Tide business: Earn £75 (ended)
Sole traders and limited companies that open a brand new Tide account are eligible for a £75 welcome bonus. You’ll need to enter the code REFORM when you apply. Then once accepted, spend £300 on the debit card in the first three months.
The £75 will be credited to your account within eight weeks of meeting the criteria. You might be asked to prove you are running a business.
New users of the HyperJar app can earn up to £200 a month if they sign up before 21 June 2024.
You’ll get 1% back on spend with the physical debit card, and 2% on payments via Apple Pay or Google Pay, capped at £200 each month.
So if you spend £500 a month with your card you’ll get £5, and another £10 if you spend a further £500 via your phone’s wallet.
Most of your spending will count, but there are some exclusions, including paying off credit cards, Council Tax, utilities, gambling and tax bills. Also excluded are buying gift cards via HyperJar.
The cashback will last until 31 October 2024 so you’ve potentially got six months to earn the cashback. You’ll get your money 30 days after each month ends. So spend in May and you’ll get the money on 30 June and so on.
The HyperJar account is free so it won’t cost you anything to spend via the debit card.
Supermarket deals, including discounted gift cards, free chocolate, new online supermarket customer offers
There are so many supermarket-specific deals that we’ve moved this section away from our food and drink deals page. We’ll keep adding to the page as new offers appear.
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Current offers & sales
Lidl: free fruit when you shop
When you buy at least one item at Lidl and scan your Lidl+ App, you’ll get a “Spin to Win” opportunity in the app to use within 7 days. This will get you a voucher for free fruit.
The offer is running from 22 May to 4 June 2025. You can use it once per day.
Right now you can get two packs of Angel Delight ice cream sticks for £1.25 rather than £5.50. Part of the reduction is via a two-for-£4 offer at Morrisons.
The next part is to claim back 50% of the price from cashback app Shopmium. Since the individual packs are priced at £2.75, and you’re buying two (one of each flavour), you’ll get £2.75 back to your Shopmium account. You can request to send this to your bank account.
That means you’ll have spent £4, got £2.75 back, leaving a total cost of £1.25. With four ice creams per pack, that’s 16p per ice cream.
It’s important you buy one of each flavour:
Butterscotch and chocolate
Strawberry and vanilla
If you don’t already have Shopmium, the welcome code KHMYEEFW will allow you to also claim back the cost of a bag of Cadbury Buttons.
There are a number of apps that’ll give you money back when you buy gift cards, including some of the major supermarkets. Use these for your everyday shopping and you’ll be saving every time.
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Supermarket cashback apps
Waitrose: 4% back via HyperJar
If you use your HyperJar card to spend at Waitrose, you’ll receive 4% back, beating the cashback rate from other options including most discounted giftcards.
However, the credit you receive can only be used on future Waitrose shops, so only go down this route if you are going to visit regularly.
You don’t need to activate the offer as it’ll automatically earn you the money when you spend.
The HyperJar account is free, though if you don’t use it within a 12 month period a £3 monthly fee is charged. This is easily avoided by setting up a standing order to transfer over £1 every year, though if you’re using it for cashback on spending or on gift cards, that’ll also count.
CheckoutSmart had free Rachel’s rice pudding at Morrisons, free Bahlens Pick Up biscuit bars at Sainsbury’s and free Little Dish kids meals at most supermarkets.
Over on Green Jinn there was free Kombucha and popped chips at Tesco, free Love Corn at Waitrose, Asda and Sainsbury’s and free protein shakes and pea milk at Morrisons.
While Shopmium offers included free oat milk at Sainsbury’s, free Iron Bru at Asda, Co-Op and more, free Rachel’s organic yoghurts at Waitrose and Sainsbury’s, free Jerky at Asda, Morrisons and Sainsbury’s and free Diet Pepsi at Tesco. And don’t forget there’s also free Pringles for newbies (more on this below).
Shopmium: free Dairy Milk Buttons
One – Shopmium – offers a freebie to get you started. Right now it’s a pack of Dairy Milk Buttons.
Previously it’s been a pack of pringles, tub of Ben & Jerry’s, a snack jar of Nutella and it used to be a bar of Lindt chocolate, and has at times been a box of cornettos. It should say when you download the app.
Use the code KHMYEEFW to activate the offer. Once you have signed up you’ll need to buy the item and then scan your receipt to get the money paid back.
There are always lots of other discounts and freebies on the app, so it’s worth browsing to see what else you can buy.
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Grocery delivery offers
Ocado: 25% off for new customers
If you shop at Ocado for the first time and use the codeVOU4239713you’ll save 25% off your first order. You’ll also get free “Smart Pass” delivery for three months. Minimum spend £60, max discount £20.
It’s also worth checking your email to see if you’re an existing customer in case you get sent a similar deal.
New to the speedy grocery delivery apps is Zoom by Ocado. Available in West London only at this time. Get 20% off your first order with the code WELCOME20.
Asda, Tesco, Sainsbury’s, Iceland and Morrisons all tend to offer Christmas savings schemes. Depending on how much money you add to your account you’ll get a bonus reward. You can use your savings for any shopping in-store or online at the selected supermarket.
Iceland is currently running a 8 for £10 multibuy offer. The offer is on Birds Eye products and includes pizzas, veggies, fish fingers and fish cakes, amongst other standard frozen items.
Most of the items in the offer would usually cost between £1.50 and £3, so it’s a good opportunity to fill up your freezer if these are items you’d usually buy anyway.
Amazon Fresh: £15 off each of your first three shops (ended)
Get £15 off a minimum spend of £60 on your first three shops with Amazon Fresh. Use the code WELCOMEFRESH at the checkout when you place your first order and the offer will be automatically applied to your next two orders. Offer expires 8 January 2025.
Morrisons on Amazon: £20 off each of your first three shops (expired)
If you’re new to Morrisons on Amazon, you’ll get £20 off each of your first three shops with the code NEW20OFF01, NEW20OFF02 and NEW20OFF03 for your first, second and third shops respectively. £70 minimum spend applies.
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Shop deals
Hotel Chocolat: free treat on your birthday
If you sign up to Hotel Chocolat’s VIP ME scheme you’ll get a free gift on your birthday (I got a free £5 voucher to spend), as well as other offers through the year such as 15% off your next purchase. You can only sign up in-stores.
Download the Krispy Kreme Rewards app to get a free Original Glazed doughnut when joining and another on your birthday. You’ll also get points every time you spend that can be spent in-store.
You’ll be able to get 25% off your doughnuts Sunday to Thursday if you have Meerkat Meals from Compare the Market. There’s a hack that’ll get you access to this for a year for £1, as well as 2-4-1 movies.
There are often voucher codes for Gousto, but if you’re new to Gousto and go via a cashback site you can save even more.
The deals seem to change fairly regularly and switch between TopCashback and Quidco, so it’s best to check both to see which is best.
At the time of writing, going via Quidco can get 50% off your first box, and up to £12 cashback on top.
So the most expensive box (four meals per box for four people) would normally cost £47.85, but the discount brings it down to £23.93. Add in the cashback and you’ll get the recipe box for £11.93 instead!
If you go via TopCashback (this one also switches between the two cashback sites, so check Quidco too) for HelloFresh then you can get 50% off your first box and £10.20 cashback on top. When you order the largest box (five recipes a week for four people), it brings the total down to £21.30.
You can now get free delivery on your Hello Fresh deliveries for a year with an Amazon Prime membership. Delivery usually costs £4.99, so this could save you £20 a month if you get a box every week.
You’ve got to go here and sign in to your Amazon account where you can connect it with your Hello Fresh account. This works if you already use Hello Fresh. You get free delivery for a year if you keep your Prime membership.
All of the deals for ODEON, Vue, Cineworld, Everyman, Picturehouse and more!
In this article you’ll find all the latest cinema ticket deals and offers, starting with the ones you can’t miss, then some chain specific offers, and then a few more well worth a look.
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Top cinema offers
2-4-1 via Meerkat Movies for £1
One of the most popular cinema deals is Meerkat Movies. Once a week you can access a code to get buy-one-get-one-free tickets on a Tuesday or Wednesday. You can use this deal at most UK cinemas all year (though not Everyman or Curzon).
You can get six free ODEON or Vue tickets if you open a Club Lloyds bank account. You’ll need to deposit £2,000 into the account each month to avoid a fee, but that’s easily done.
At Vue cinemas, your vouchers also entitle you to half price popcorn. At ODEON cinemas, you can redeem your vouchers at ODEON Kids Screenings, which come with a free kids-size popcorn per ticket.
You can claim a free, standard ticket at any Vue in the UK every month. You can upgrade to a VIP, 3D, recliner or IMAX ticket but you’ll pay an extra fee.
You’ll need to use the code before the end of each calendar month, but it can be for a screening at a later date. Monzo Perks costs £7 per month and comes with a range of money saving benefits, including an annual Railcard and weekly Greggs freebies.
With Halifax’s Reward accounts you can get one free cinema ticket per month at any UK Vue Cinema. Each ticket is valid for 12 months. You’ll need to add £1,500 to your account each month, and also spend £500 on the debit card too, in order to trigger the freebie.
New Halifax Reward customers won’t be able to add this feature after mid-June 2025 and it’ll end for existing account holders in September.
Whether you’re buying a full price ticket, or stacking with other offers featured on this page, you’ll save a little by using a discounted gift card.
Some of these are special offers at retailers like Tesco or Amazon where you save when you buy. When these are available we’ll share them as featured deals.
Others will learn you cashback on your gift card purchase, and these tend to run all year around via these apps:
There’s a good chance you can save up to 40% on cinema tickets via an existing membership or account – and if not, you could sign up as a new customer.
The likes of Tastecard, Mastercard and Lidl offer you access to a service called Cinema Society which sells reduced tickets for ODEON, Vue, Picturehouse, Showcase, Cineworld, Empire and other independent cinemas.
This can be a good way to save, but watch out as you might find your local cinema is cheaper itself when you buy direct! Or some of the other deals we’ve shared on this page could also work out better value.
In some cases you’ll need to pay for the initial membership, but others are free. Though you can find these in a number of places (check any work perk schemes for instance), here’s some of the more common ones you might have access to.
We’ve listed more offers, both specific to the different chains and across different cinemas, below, but these ones in particular are worth a look:
Vue: 3 tickets for £1 via the Telegraph
Everyman: 2-4-1 Wednesday with Times+
Escapes: free film preview tickets
ODEON ticket deals and offers
Don’t forget we may have featured some ODEON deals in our ‘Top cinema deals’ section above, including how to hack 2-4-1 tickets for £1.
Odeon: 20% off
Buy an Odeon gift card at Tesco and you’ll save 20% off. This gift card can then be stacked with other offers, such as 2-4-1 Meerkat Movies or two for £10 Amazon Prime tickets. Ends 15 June 2025.
ODEON: two tickets for £10 for Amazon Prime members
Deal expiry: Ongoing offer
If you have Amazon Prime, you can get two standard tickets for £10 at ODEON, or two recliner tickets for £15 at ODEON Luxe.
This offer can be used once per month for screenings from Monday to Thursday. This price includes the £1 booking fee per ticket. Can be stacked with discounted gift cards.
ODEON: two tickets for £8 for Voxi mobile customers
Deal expiry: Ongoing offer
If you’re a Voxi Mobile customer, then you can get two ODEON tickets for £8 in its new monthly rewards scheme. You can choose to either get two standard tickets for £8 or two Luxe tickets for £13.
You can claim your tickets once each month by logging into Voxi Rewards.
Octopus Energy customers can nab up to two free child standard tickets per week free Kids ticket at ODEON via the Octoplus Rewards scheme until 31 August 2025.
The ticket can be used at any UK ODEON cinema, excluding ODEON Luxe, for a standard 2D film screening. And you’ve ages to use it – once the code is claimed it’s valid until until 31 January 2026.
There’s a £1 booking fee online, but none at the box office.
ODEON: two tickets for £8 for Vodafone customers (+£1 booking fee)
Deal expiry: Ongoing offer
If you’re a Vodafone customer then you can get two ODEON cinema tickets every week with VeryMe Rewards. You can do this once each week for any film showing at any time.
Two standard tickets will cost £8, while two Luxe tickets cost £13.
You can also get four standard for £16 and four Luxe for £26.
The voucher can only be used on the same screening, so you couldn’t use it for one ticket at two screenings for example.
You’ll need to pay an additional £1 booking fee when using the voucher on the ODEON website, though this covers the whole booking. If you use it at the box office you won’t pay this extra charge.
To get it, you just need to tap on ‘Rewards’ in the Vodafone app and claim the offer.
Sign up for free to myODEON and you can watch any film, any day, any time from just £5 when you book online.
This offer is only available at 22 specified locations so check ODEON’s list to see if your local cinema is included. You must be signed into your account to see the lower prices.
Don’t forget we may have featured some Vue deals in our ‘Top cinema deals’ section above, including free tickets via bank accounts.
Vue: two tickets for £9 with O2 and Virgin Media
Deal expiry: Ongoing offer
If you’re a broadband customer with O2 or Virgin Media you can use the O2 Priority app for discounted tickets. You can get two Vue tickets for £9 every week or four for £18 to use on any day, at any Vue location. There’s also 20% off food and drinks.
You can get a new code at 10am each Monday and it’s valid until Sunday of the same week.
If you’ve got Sky Cinema, you can get two free standard Vue cinema tickets every month. The tickets can be used at any Vue cinema in the UK or Ireland, at any time Sunday – Thursday.
You’ll need the MySky app to get access to this offer, where you’ll find a code to use online and a QR code to use in the cinema.
There’s a limit to how many free tickets Sky gives out each month, so you may need to get in early.
You can buy bundles of Vue tickets on Wowcher, either two, five or ten, and you’ll get them at a much lower price. Two tickets cost £9.50 – making it £4.75 a ticket. For five tickets, you’ll spend £22 (£4.40 per ticket), and ten tickets cost £40, making it £4 per ticket.
You can use the tickets for Standard 2D screenings, sitting in super saver seats.
You’ll have til 18 May to use the tickets, but check that your cinema is listed, as there are some exclusions, and some cinemas will charge you a £2 surcharge when redeeming it – check this list in “The Fine Print”.
To get it, go to Wowcher and search “Vue” to find the offer.
Don’t forget we may have featured some other deals in our ‘Top cinema deals’ section above, including how to hack 2-4-1 tickets for £1.
We’ve also details of Cineworld and Picturehouse memberships later on this page.
Cineworld: £2 tickets via Clubcard
Deal expiry: 8 June 2025
From 27 May until 8 June, you can get up to four Cineworld tickets with only £2 worth of Clubcard points per ticket.
You just need to transfer £2 worth of points into a £4 Cineworld voucher on the Clubcard website for every ticket you want. Then you can book your tickets via Cineworld.
If you don’t have enough points, you can transfer as many as you have (as long as you have at least 50p in points), then pay the difference for the £4 ticket.
Every week, Three+ customers can nab a code for a discounted ticket to use Friday to Sunday. Codes are available from Monday. It’s for 2D screenings only, though you can pay to upgrade.
Picturehouse Central and Picturehouse Fulham Road are excluded. You’ll pay a booking fee to redeem the code online, but it’s free to use in the foyer.
Cineworld: two tickets for £12.95 with Wowcher (expired)
Deal expiry: 31 March 2025 (though may be extended)
You can buy two Standard Cineworld tickets on Wowcher for £12, plus a £0.95 booking fee when booking the tickets.
You’ll have til 31 March to use the tickets, but check that your cinema is listed, as there are some exclusions. There’s an uplift fee for things like 3D screenings or IMAX. And be aware that you need to use them both at the same time.
To get it, go to Wowcher and search “Cineworld” to find the offer.
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Everyman cinema ticket deals and offers
Everyman offers are pretty rare!
Everyman: 2-4-1 Wednesday with Times+
If you subscribe to The Times, you’ll be able to get two-for-one tickets at Everyman on Wednesdays. You can get a one month free trial or £3 for 3 months then it’s a pricey £26 a month.
Don’t forget we have featured some other deals in our ‘Top cinema deals’ section above, including how to hack 2-4-1 tickets for £1.
Santander: £5 off a ticket
If you have a Santander account you can access Cinema Society for discounted tickets via the free Santander Boosts scheme.
From 10 February there are 3,000 £5 off vouchers, meaning you can pick up a ticket for Cineworld, ODEON, Vue, Showcase, Picturehouse, Merlin, The Light and more.
As of 1 April 2025 there were still vouchers available.
With Cinematik, you can get free tickets to select films for free. Each month, a film is voted to be screened and you can book to see it on a specific day. You can book a maximum of one ticket per screening. You also have the option to reserve an additional ticket for a guest, which they’ll need to confirm separately via a shareable invite link.
The cinemas taking part are mainly local independent ones, but there are Picturehouse and Reel cinemas included. There’s a full list of all participating cinemas on the Cinematik website.
Mubi is an online streaming service. For £11.99 a month you get a classic, world cinema or art-house flick to watch, with the curated selection adding a new film every day.
For an extra £7 per month you also get a free cinema ticket every week via the Mubi Go service. There’s a 7-day free trial and if you sign up for an annual membership, you’ll save 33%.
You typically won’t be able to watch blockbusters, instead there’s a specific new film every week. You can go to see that film once, and another film choice will be given the following week.
With many of the films being smaller, they’ll have limited releases, so if you don’t live in a big city there’s a good chance you won’t be able to take advantage every week as not all the films will be shown at all cinemas.
If you’ve got a Vitality membership, usually offered as a healthcare perk with employers, then you can nab yourself a free Vue or ODEON ticket once each month.
You need to earn 48 Vitality points each month for tracking your activity, then just log into the website or app to generate your personal cinema ticket code.
Enter your code on the cinema’s website when booking your tickets.
You can buy a ticket from £5.60 to use for movies at Vue, Cineworld or ODEON with the entertainment site Fever.
The actual price you’ll pay varies by location. If you have a larger town or city close by, you could get a better discount by choosing a cinema there instead.
Again, do check you can’t get a ticket for less via a different offer before buying.
Here’s what you need to know about getting discounted tickets with Fever:
ODEON: you can get a standard 2D ticket at select cinemas in the UK. It’s not valid at Luxe locations or the Islington Luxe & Dine. If you want to upgrade to IMAX, 3D or recliner seats, you’ll have to pay extra.
You can use the voucher online via the ODEON website or app, but there’s a £1 fee per ticket. You can also redeem the voucher at cinema kiosks – but not at the box office. The voucher can’t be used for special screenings or events and can’t be combined with other offers.
Vue: you can get a ticket for a film either online or via the Box Office. Each voucher is only valid once and if you cancel your booking, you won’t get it back.
It’s not valid for premieres, special events or things like Mini Mornings or Scene screenings. With a Super Saver voucher, you can book general 2D seating, while VIP vouchers give more options, including recliners and 3D screenings (with an upgrade fee).
Cineworld: you can get a ticket for any standard 2D film, but if you want to upgrade to 3D, IMAX or 4DX you’ll have to pay extra (plus the cost of 3D glasses if needed). If you’re booking online, there’s a small fee added.
You can’t use this ticket for Event Cinema, special screenings, Movies for Juniors or ViP seats though, so check before booking.
ODEON: Family ticket – you can get adult tickets at child prices for the same film. You’ll see the option at check out for an adult and child combo ticket.
Vue: tickets for £2.49 – Vue Mighty Mornings are kids screenings on Saturday and Sunday mornings at 10am and every day of the school holidays.
Cineworld: from £2.50 – kids and adults pay the same price via Movies for Juniors.
Picturehouse: from £3.30 per ticket – kids’ Club screenings are shown every Saturday morning and prices depend on the cinema you visit. There’s also preschool specials, exclusively for preschool children and the adult goes for free. With the family ticket option, adults only pay kids prices. It’s for four people, at least two must be under 15 (e.g. two adults and two kids or one adult and three kids).
Cheap over 60s cinema tickets
Over 60s tickets from £3.50
ODEON, Cineworld and Picturehouse have cheaper tickets for over 60s (Vue don’t have anything on offer at the moment). Here’s our roundup of the deals:
ODEON: from £3.50 per ticket – ODEON Silvers has screenings during quieter times of the day with a selection of new releases or classic films. Tickets with standard seats are £3.50 when you book as a myODEON member online and £4.50 in-cinema. Standard seats are £4.00 when you book online as a guest and £5.00 in cinema. The price includes tea, coffee and biscuits, served before the film.
Cineworld: tickets for £4.50 – CineSeniors runs every Wednesday and you also get complimentary hot drinks and biscuits.
Picturehouse: discounted tickets – Silver Screen is a free-to-join club for over-60s. Members get a free tea or coffee at Silver Screen shows.
Memberships
These memberships could save you money on tickets – if you go frequently enough.
ODEON myLimitless: from £14.99 a month
Deal expiry: Ongoing offer
ODEON myLimitless is an annual membership that allows you to see as many films as you like in ODEON cinemas. You pay £14.99 per month or £17.99 for myLimitless Plus, which also gets you ODEON Luxe, seat upgrades and screen upgrades.
If you go via a cashback site, you could cut the cost even more. With TopCashback you can get up to £4.25 of the price back on your first payment. Plus, you could get a welcome bonus offer.
ODEON sometimes offer discounts on annual membership, and we’ll share them here when they run.
If you frequently go to a Cineworld, its Unlimited Card lets you go as much as you want (2D only). The minimum subscription is 3 months and starts at £10.99 a month, going up to £21.90.
Each cinema is bracketed into a group – the amount you pay depends on the group your cinema falls in. The Cineworld website has a full list of which cinemas are in which groups.
Group 1 cinemas – £10.99 a month
Group 2 cinemas – £16.99 a month
Group 3 cinemas – £19.40 a month
Group 4 cinemas – £21.90 a month
Members are also invited to preview screenings and get 10% off food and drink. If you continue your subscription for a second year, membership then includes 3D films and the food discount goes up to 25%.
There’s also a referral scheme where you get an extra month for free if you get a mate to sign up.
We’ll share any discounts on membership here when they’re available.
Picturehouse: free tickets and £3 off with memberships
Picturehouse memberships give you free tickets and discounts at any Picturehouse cinema. The free tickets are sometimes restricted to your member cinema so it’s best to save them for the weekends when prices go up.
There’s two tiers of membership – Member and Member Plus. The Member option gives you five free tickets and costs between £57 and £97 per year depending on the member cinema you join.
Member Plus gives you an extra card so you can split the costs with a mate or family member. You’ll get ten free tickets and it costs between £100 and £170 per year.
After the freebies you’ll also get £3 off our further tickets.
Members also get a 10% discount on food and drink, free previews, no online booking fees and occasional other freebies.
At certain points in the year there are discounts on memberships, and we’ll share them here if they’re any good.
There are a few options here, though the basic one (i.e. cheapest) allows you to take a friend for free on Mondays. You also get six free tickets for the £89 cost.
The next level up costs £325 a year, and comes with 24 free tickets. After this you can spend £680 and get unlimited tickets for two for a year.
For £65 (£50 concessions) you can get an annual “Classic” membership. This comes with five credits to use for free tickets or at home streams. You can use the credit to buy tickets for yourself and guests. There’s a further 20% discount for you and a guest on other tickets. You’ll also get 10% off drinks and snacks.
If you go to a Curzon a lot, there is a £285 “Cult” option. This annual membership gives you five free credits a week. Use them all and it’s just £1.10 a ticket! You can’t use the credits to get a ticket for a guest. If you want to pay monthly it’s £25 a month, but you’re still tied in for 12 months.
The Cult + membership doubles down with 10 free tickets a week (which are valid for events such as theatre and ballet screenings) and an additional cardholder. It comes in at £850 a year.
Get 20% off ODEON e-giftcards from Tesco until 22 December. The discount applies to e-giftcards valued between £5 and £25. These e-giftcards are valid for two years.
From Amazon vouchers and free trials of Amazon Prime to flash sales and tricks for free delivery
Let’s face it, Amazon is probably the one website that most people use pretty regularly, so it helps to have a voucher or discount stored up. Here are the best deals at the moment.
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There are some decent offers throughout the year to watch out for. You won’t be eligible for all of them but it’s worth a look.
Amazon gift card and voucher offers
Snoop: £5 Amazon Voucher
Snoop is an app to help you track your spending. It also analyses your bank date to suggest ways you can save money. Right now there’s an offer to get a £5 Amazon voucher.
You must go via the link below for the offer to track.
Once you’ve downloaded the app and signed up you need to connect a bank or credit card account and stay connected until the end of the following month. The voucher will then be paid.
This one’s worth trying even if you’ve used a similar promotion. However you can normally only qualify once every couple of years. Check the offer is displayed when you click through. The latest offer we’ve seen offers £6 extra when you buy £60 in gift cards.
If nothing is displayed, it could mean it’s ended or you’re not eligible. These deals are often extended or return after a short absence.
Similar to the gift card promotion, here you top up your Amazon account and get some extra credit added. The promo value changes often, but it’s currently £5 when you add £60.
If it is running, it’s only for people who haven’t topped up their account in the last 36 months. Again, this deal can come and go, so it’s worth checking.
You might have personalised Amazon offers. It’ll show you trials and discounts you are eligible for. However, we still think it’s worth looking at the offers above and below in case they don’t show.
£5 off £15 (for some)
Click the button below to see if you’re eligible for a £5 off £15 spend promotion. You’ve 15 days from choosing to ‘activate the offer’ to take advantage.
You know the drill here. You get free next day delivery, Amazon Prime Instant Video, access to Amazon Prime Now and loads of other goodies. It’s normally £95 a year but you can get a free 30-day trial.
You will hopefully be able to do this every 12 months, but it’s unclear if this is guaranteed for all customers. You can always try your luck (you never know), but if you’ve not yet taken out a trial, I’d wait until you’ve got a lot of spending coming up, or a big sale such as Prime Day or Black Friday (more on these below).
If you’ve previously had Amazon Prime but aren’t yet eligible again for a second free trial you might be offered a week for 99p. After this you’ll pay full price unless you cancel.
Amazon Student and 18-22 year-olds: six months free, then £47.49 a year
If you have a student card you should also be able to join Amazon Student. This is essentially Amazon Prime. You get six months free, then 12 months at half price. Amazon might ask for additional proof you are a student. You’ll get the student account for as long as you’re a student or for up to four years.
If you’re between 18 and 22 then you can get this too, but you’ll need to prove your age with a valid driving licence or passport. You can get this account until you’re 23.
There are lots of ways to save on Kindle books, but Prime members can also nab one of six titles every month for free via First Reads. There’s normally a mix of genres and once you pick your book you can send it to your Kindle.
Prime Day is Amazon’s big sale just for Prime members. In 2024 it took place on 16 and 17 July.
It’s important to remember that not all the deals are the best price. Some are simply old stock that needs clearing, while others are often as cheap throughout the year. We’d recommend using uk.camelcamelcamel.com to see the price history before making any purchase
Most offers are product-specific, and we’d encourage you to check for price matching elsewhere, especially on tech like Echo speakers and Ring doorbells.
Prime Day: 16-17 July 2024 (ended)
Amazon is running its special two-day sale for Prime members on 16 and 17 July 2024. The summertime deal event could offer the chance to grab a bargain ahead of larger autumn sales such as Black Friday.
It’s worth shopping around and seeing if you can get the same item for less elsewhere, or with added features. If you do buy something at Amazon and the price drops during the sale you can get a refund for the difference.
As always the biggest discounts are on Amazon’s own devices, such as Kindle, Echo, Fire, Eero and Ring. If you’re new to TopCashback you can get a £20 bonus plus up to 3% back on these devices. We’ll add some here once they launch.
This sale for Prime members took place on 8 and 9 October 2024. It’s pretty much a carbon copy of Prime Day. As soon as we spot any early offers, we’ll share them below.
As with Prime Day, don’t get carried away. Only buy the things you actually need, and check that they’re decent prices.
Don’t forget you’ll need to be a Prime member to get the offers – but we’ve listed deals above that’ll save you money or perhaps help you get it for free.
October’s Prime Big Deals Day sale (expired)
Amazon is running its special two-day sale for Prime Members on 8 and 9 October 2024. The autumn deal event could offer the chance to grab a bargain ahead of Black Friday and the Christmas sales.
It’s always worth shopping around and seeing if you can get the same item for less elsewhere, or with added features. If you do buy something at Amazon and the price drops during the sale you can get a refund for the difference.
Before the actual day, the offers are mostly on Amazon’s own products and devices.
Early offers include:
Discounts on Echo devices – 31% to 58% off.
Blink cameras and doorbells – 31% to 61% off
Fire TV – 28% to 62% off
Kindle Scribe – 24% off (just a few pounds off its cheapest price)
Amazon Music Unlimited – get 4 months free (usually one month)
discounts on branded gift cards, including Lego, Vue and One4All – details on our gift card deals page
The highest paying easy-access and regular children’s savings accounts and Junior ISAs
Here’s our guide to the best children’s savings accounts. Check the date to see when this was last updated.
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Easy access accounts
These can be current accounts for kids or specific children’s savings accounts and are open to anyone under the age of 18. Rates are usually variable, which means they can change, and are often only on a limited amount of money.
With these accounts, your children will be able to manage the money themselves once they reach a certain age.
These children’s savings accounts pay higher rates but you’re limited on how much you can save each month. Usually, it’s a fixed rate for a year. When the time months is up, the account will close and the money will be transferred to a linked savings account.
You or your child can save £9,000 a year in a Junior ISA. These can be cash ones earning interest or stocks and shares ISAs which are invested (meaning the value can go up and down).
Though interest or gains earned in an ISA are tax-free, it’s unlikely it makes much difference as there are other allowances that will be more than enough for most kids.
Money in Junior ISAs is also locked away until the child turns 18. Then it’s their money to use as they want.
Parents or guardians have to open the account but anyone can add money – handy for grandparents and other family members who want to put money aside.
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Tax and children’s savings
Andy’s analysis
When choosing a children’s savings account, you probably won’t need to worry about tax on interest.
Children can earn a total of £18,500 from savings and other income each financial year. That’s the £12,500 personal tax allowance, the £5,000 starting savings allowance and the £1,000 personal savings allowance.
However, if parents (and parents only) are adding money to any of the non-tax free accounts then there’s a £100 interest limit each year per parent.
So say the child has £2,000 saved earning 3.75%, they’d make £75 in interest. That’s fine. If they amassed £3,000 in contributions from the same parent the amount earned would be £112.50.
That’s still ok if the money comes from both parents, as the allowances would be combined and the total interest that can be earned would be £200.
But if it’s from one parent, then the entire £112.50 would need to come out of that parent’s Personal Savings Allowance. That might not be a problem – but if it exceeds this, then the whole amount will be subject to tax at the rate the parent pays, which could be 20% or 40%.
To avoid this you might want to save into a Junior ISA.
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Other ways to save for kids
Premium Bonds
You can also buy Premium Bonds for children. These cost £1 each, but there’s a minimum purchase of £25. Grandparents are able to buy Premium Bonds, as well as parents and guardians.
The current prize fund is 4%, which isn’t the same as 4% interest. It’s very likely that with small amounts of cash in Premium bonds you won’t win anything – but there’s the chance of getting up to £1 million every month.
Pensions
Yep, you can start putting money into a person pension for a child at any age. They won’t be able to access the cash until they reach 57 years old (though that will likely increase when they’re older). However, they can manage where the money is invested from the age of 18.
As with adults adding to pensions, they’ll get 20% tax relief from the government, meaning for every £80 that’s added, £100 will be invested.
There is an annual limit though of £2,880 where you’ll get this extra top-up.
Piggy banks
It can be good to get young kids familiar with coins and money by giving them a piggy bank to save with. Obviously they won’t earn any interest (unless you want to work that out yourself).
Once they get a little older to understand branch and online banking it might make sense to replace the piggy bank with the accounts above.
Apps
Starling offers a free app to help kids learn about money and spending while also giving the parents extra control over purchases called Starling Kite. You can also pay a monthly fee for apps like Go Henry and HyperJar. However, you’re unlikely to get any decent rate of interest from any of these.
