News & Blog

26.04.2024

We respond to DESNZ’s call for evidence on default tariffs

08.04.2024

We launch our new payments film

23.02.2024

Fair By Design statement: prepayment meter announcement is a big win, but we need action on standard credit sooner

02.02.2024

We respond to ESNZ Committee’s call for evidence: Energy bills for domestic customers 

02.02.2024

Press Release: New Age UK analysis shows an energy social tariff would have lifted 2.2 million households out of fuel poverty this winter 

01.02.2024

Fair By Design statement: We welcome the Labour Party’s plan to create national financial inclusion strategy

19.01.2024

We respond to Ofgem’s call for input on standing charges

16.01.2024

Blog: Car insurance poverty premium costs people in poverty hundreds of pounds – it’s time for action 

04.01.2024

News Story: We respond to Ofgem’s consultation on changes to standing charges and other debt costs 

23.11.2023

News Story: Fair By Design responds to Ofgem’s consultation on additional debt related costs 

25.10.2023

Fair By Design one of 13 organisations calling on the Chancellor to introduce an energy ‘Help to Repay’ scheme at the Autumn Statement 

18.10.2023

News Story: Fair By Design responds to Ofgem’s new customer services standards for energy suppliers 

03.10.2023

News Story: Fair by Design responds to Ofgem’s consultation on levelling the cost of standing charges on prepayment meters 

28.09.2023

Press Release: Fair By Design one of Coalition of over 140 organisations and MPs calling for a consultation on a social tariff for energy

02.08.2023

News Story: Fair By Design responds to the strategy and policy statement for energy policy in Great Britain by DESNZ

01.08.2023

News Story: Fair By Design responds to Treasury’s future of payments review

24.07.2023

Statement: Fair By Design calls on Government to fulfil its promise to consult on targeted energy price support  

20.07.2023

Press Release: Government must switch on to help vulnerable energy customers this winter

13.06.2023

News story: Fair By Design joins charities writing to Grant Shapps MP calling for a ‘Help to Repay’ scheme to support people struggling with energy debt 

05.06.2023

News story: How inclusive design can make the transition to net zero fair for low income consumers

01.06.2023

News story: Fair By Design joins the Trussell Trust & Joseph Rowntree Foundation ‘Guarantee our Essentials’ campaign 

Losing your job, needing to care for a sick family member, breaking up with your partner – everyone’s circumstances can change. When they do, the social security system should ensure no one goes without the essentials - but it doesn't. 

25.05.2023

Blog: A reduction in energy bills is welcome – but low-income consumers’ distrust in the energy market remains the biggest challenge

Trust in the energy market needs to be rebuilt. A good place to start would be ending the premium for different payment methods in energy

18.05.2023

News story: Fair By Design responds to Ofgem’s consultation on levelisation of payment method cost differentials

18.04.2023

Fair By Design statement: Publication of Ofgem’s Code of Practice on involuntary PPM installations

13.04.2023

Article: FCA’s new Consumer Duty: far from a silver bullet

28.03.2023

Press Release: Finance Innovation Lab: Public wants politicians to act now on ‘unfair’ bank services

13.03.2023

Press Release: Priced out – Poor people giving up insurance due to ‘poverty premium’

24.02.2023

Fair By Design launches its updated 5-year strategy 

10.02.2023

Event: How to address the poverty premium in the insurance market

10.02.2023

Fair By Design join Martin Lewis in calling for the energy price guarantee to continue at £2,500 after April

We are working with MoneySavingExpert founder Martin Lewis to ensure the energy price guarantee remains at £2,500 a year.  

17.01.2023

Press Release: Fair By Design one of over 90 Charities and non-profit organisations calling on the Chancellor to introduce discounted energy bills for low-income households

11.07.2022

Blog: How a new social tariff in the energy market would lower the cost of bills for low income households.

22.06.2022

Press Release: New research shows local economies losing £4.5 million a year to the poverty premium.

16.06.2022

Now the government must act, Fair By Design responds to the Treasury Select Committee’s report into the future of financial services regulation

27.04.2022

Press Release: Columbia Threadneedle Foundation partners with Fair By Design to address barriers to financial inclusion

Research project will explore root causes of the poverty premium in insurance, an under-recognised factor in financial vulnerability. It aims to address systemic barriers to insurance, helping increase economic security and financial resilience among the UK’s poorest.

12.04.2022

Fair By Design responds to The Government Warm Home Discount: Better targeted support from 2022 consultation  

Fair By Design is happy to see the changes made to support more low-incomes consumers, but we want to highlight that more can be done to support those using the Warm Home Discount

04.03.2022

Emma Hardy MP Presses Ministers to end the poverty premium

Fair By Design featured as part of the Treasury Select Committee inquiry on the Future of Financial Services

02.03.2022

Campaign update: Joint letter to the Minister on financial inclusion

14.01.2022

Financial Conduct Authority must think financial inclusion

10.12.2021

“It’s perverse and upsetting” – Martin Lewis highlights the poverty premium

21.10.2021

Government’s Net Zero Strategy: Fair By Design comment

25.09.2021

Priced out and left out: New Fair By Design report on the insurance poverty premium

06.09.2021

Fair By Design and partners delivering No Interest Loan Scheme (NILS) pilot

01.07.2021

New research to look at increasing the financial inclusion of racially minoritised communities

08.06.2021

Listen: Fair By Design on the British Standards Institute podcast

09.03.2021

Guest blog: It’s the Government’s Duty to Act on Inequality

23.02.2021

New research: People with certain protected characteristics more likely to pay a poverty premium

11.02.2021

FCA: Over a quarter of UK adults have signs of vulnerability

27.01.2021

New practical guidance on Inclusive Design for regulators and firms

15.01.2021

Report launch (Webinar: 27 January): Inclusive Design in Essential Services

27.11.2020

Fuel Poverty Awareness Day 2020 – what do we want to see change?

20.11.2020

New report: Low income consumers pay a poverty premium equivalent to three months’ worth of food

14.10.2020

Government confirms future of Warm Home Discount scheme

08.10.2020

Open Finance: what are the risks and what should the FCA do next?

29.07.2020

Fair By Design consults on Payment Systems Regulator’s future strategy work

08.07.2020

Chancellor announces £2bn to improve household energy efficiency

06.07.2020

Why the Chancellor should cut VAT on energy bills

29.06.2020

The poverty premium in insurance to be explored by new partnership

22.06.2020

Watch now: How can organisations support their employees’ financial resilience?

29.05.2020

Carl Packman discusses payment holidays for 1.5m consumers struggling because of coronavirus

07.05.2020

Why We Invested in SteadyPay

04.05.2020

Why We Invested in Youtility

27.04.2020

FCA confirms support for high cost credit and motor finance customers

26.03.2020

Incomes for poorest in society reduced in 2018-19

19.03.2020

VC and Social Impact: Why I Joined the Fair By Design Fund – Maryam Mazraei

25.02.2020

Fair By Design launch new joint report calling for extension and expansion of Warm Home Discount scheme

07.02.2020

Joseph Rowntree Foundation report finds little change in UK poverty levels

23.01.2020

Fair By Design appears on Smart Money People’s ‘Money Bites’ podcast

15.01.2020

Low income households experience biggest rise in consumer credit debt over last 10 years

09.01.2020

Fair By Design chosen as one of The Big Issue’s ‘Top 100 Changemakers’ in 2020

06.01.2020

Fair By Design partners with Trust for London to tackle the poverty premium

03.12.2019

‘Inclusive design’ in essential services to be explored in new partnership

10.09.2019

Minibems Raises Investment from SET Ventures and Fair By Design

15.05.2019

Martin Coppack takes up the role of Director of Fair By Design Campaign

01.02.2019

Fair By Design helps to shape The Sun’s campaign on Universal Credit

Fair By Design helped shape the Sun’s new Universal Credit campaign, with a particular focus on its Poverty Premium aspects, where waiting for Universal Credit for weeks put great financial strain on families, increasing the need to go to high cost lenders. Watch the video.  

01.02.2019

Fair By Design Ambassador talks to The Sun about living with the Poverty Premium

30.01.2019

Discussing the value of Credit Unions