Merry Christmas from us!!

Former_MSE_Andrea

Hi all!

As you know it's been a big year for us, with many changes in the office.

It's our first Forum Christmas with Megan (community researcher) and Erica (Head of Deals and Forum Team).

Thanks to Megan coming on board we've had the extra time and resource to create and expand our social media this year with our Pinterest and Instagram accounts in addition to Twitter.

This has helped highlight the MSE Forum name and meant we've been able to run more campaigns including Stoptober with Public Health England, Cyberstreetwise with the Home Office, Fire Safety with Manchester Fire & Rescue Service, our Christmas Tree giveaway with Homebase and our hugely successful Thorntons hamper giveaway. Keep this to yourselves but there'll be another fab giveaway in the New Year...

On the Deals side of things Erica has helped push along the new look Deals section and this year the Deals Team launched the fab DealsHunters blog. With that done she's helping push through the new Forum design. We're hoping to get it launched early this year (fingers crossed!)

If you've been reading the weekly email or the main site regularly you'll have seen we've launched more responsive guides and pages and new-look sections e.g., Homes & Mortgages this year and there's more of that to come in 2015.

One stat I'm very proud of is this: through Stepchange MoneySavingExpert and its Forum has helped 18,000 people get debt help. And that's just one organisation!

Thank you to all our lovely forumites, whether you've joined the Forum or prefer to lurk. If you've been helping other forumites, new and old, to make the most of their money, pointing them to other forum threads or our deals, guides, Dealshunter blogs and more a huge thank you from us.

From flagging up forumites who deserve a badge from MSE Badger to telling us about a thread or post that could make a news story or be added to our guide or weekly email, from letting other forumites know about a guide that could help them to linking to our Forum, guides, deals, news stories, blogs and more on twitter, facebook, pinterest etc - these are all a huge help to us and to other Forum users as sources of inspiration so thank you!

We especially want to say a huge thank you to our wonderful volunteeer Board Guides who help do all the above and more, often day in day out (even though they don't have to), tirelessly and without complaint. We're so grateful for everything you do to help MSEr's save money.

Hopefully you're all still saving tons of money yourselves via the Forum and main site. We’re really looking forward to saving all MSE users even more next year.

From Andrea, Megan, Zorica, Erica, MSE Badger and everyone at MSE Towers a very Merry Christmas and a fantastic, Happy New Year.


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