Joanne is in her thirties and likes to thinks that she is in control of her finances, she has a decent salary from her job as a Marketing Manager for a supermarket chain. She regularly pays off her credit card, has a savings account which she pays into every month and is nearly half way to paying off the mortgage on her two bedroom flat in Harlow. She plans to use her savings to spend a year in Australia in three years time, and is already on the look out for a cheap airfare.

Even organised Joanne has a lot to gain from attending the Your Money Matters Show. By using more tax efficient savings methods and looking at changing her mortgage Joanne could add an extra thousand pounds a year to her holiday fund. She could also knock several hundred pounds off her annual insurance bill by using some of the discounts available at the event. She also wants to use the show to make a will and look at the options to supplement her current pension provided by her employer.