Budget Blog: How To… Decorate Your Uni Bedroom
So we’re just over half way through the first semester at University, and I’m sure we speak for many of you when we say we still haven’t...
Travel Blog: Is It Poverty Or Just Simple Living?
What would you say is essential for life? Is it different to what is essential for a happy life? If one has a family, clean water, food, an...
Counting the Pennies
Money: where does it all go? One day we're rolling in it and the next we're sobbing into a pile of receipts. I get both a student loan and...
Five signs that tell you that you’re at the end of your student loan
Let’s be honest we’ve all been there before. At the start of term your student loan makes its way into your bank account and you had that...
The HC Leeds guide to fundraising
Leeds University has much to offer, including an abundance of volunteering opportunities in and outside of the UK. I am currently a member...
HC’s Guide to Christmas Decorations on a Budget
The 5th of November is now officially behind us and the next holiday looming its bearded head over a frosty horizon is decidedly Santa-...
HC’s Top Tips for Clever Christmas Shopping
Christmas always turns out to be an expensive time of year, even for us stingy students who only have three people to buy presents for. No...
HC’s Guide to Shopping in Leeds
Leeds is the UK’s fourth largest city in the United Kingdom and is very quickly becoming known as the fashion capital of the northern...
Why Student eating doesn’t have to cost a bomb
Let’s face it, we’d all rather put any spare change at the end of a week towards a bottle of vodka than have to spend it on an expensive...