By Ben Scott Marketing Manager Happy New Year! Welcome to 2019. Where did 2018 disappear too? Last year seemed to absolutely fly by, right? Well I guess they do say that time seems to pass faster the older you get and here at Connect Insurance, we’re getting older. Celebrating 30 Years of Success Connect Insurance initially started out as a […]
By Ben Scott Marketing Manager As 2018 draws to a close, it’s nice to relax and ready ourselves for the Christmas festivities. We’re still here, and we’re still writing business and dealing with customer service enquiries; but we’re also finding the time to partake in a few festive traditions. Take a look below, and let us know what your traditions […]
By Ben Scott Marketing Manager Please be aware of hour opening times for the festive period. Our staff work hard throughout the year to deliver our customers with a first class service. Sometimes it is helping a customer arrange their initial quotation; other times, assisting them with a mid term adjustment. Claims, renewals, cancellations. All of it requires work on […]
By Josh Brian Marketing Apprentice Armistice Day is on 11th November and is also known as Remembrance Day. It marks the day World War One ended, at 11am on the 11th day of the 11th month (11/11/11), back in 1918. A two-minute silence is held at 11am to remember the people who have died in wars. There is also Remembrance Sunday […]
By Josh Brian Marketing Apprentice What is Bonfire Night? On 5th November 1605, a group of Catholic conspirators were poised to launch a terrorist plot on an unprecedented scale. They planned to blow up Parliament using gunpowder, wiping out the King and the establishment in an attempt to trigger a popular uprising. But the plot was foiled just hours before […]
By Josh Brian Marketing Apprentice Why do we celebrate Halloween? We all know Halloween is a spooky celebration that takes place in countries all over the world. Both children and adults dress up in scary costumes or as their favourite fictional characters wandering the streets in search of candy, but why do we have the bizarre celebration every year? The […]
Daylight Saving Sadly summer has ended and that is made official by the clocks going back, so even though the giant inflatables are put back in the loft for another year at least we can look forward to having an extra hour in bed. British Summer Time began this year on Sunday 26th March 2017 where the clocks went forward by an […]
By Georgina Bailey Marketing Executive St George’s Day is celebrated on the 23rd April every year. It is celebrated by many Christian churches and several nations, kingdoms, countries and cities where St George is the patron saint. In 1415 St George’s Day become a national day of feast and holiday in England; however after the union with Scotland in the […]
By Ben Scott Marketing Manager Please be aware of our amended opening hours for the upcoming holidays:
By Ben Scott Marketing Manager On the 26th March 2017, the clocks will go forward indicating the start of British Summer Time (and hopefully we may get one this year). Daylight Saving time was the idea of William Willet in 1907 to stop people wasting precious daylight house in the summer months. Williams suggested that the clocks should be advanced […]