A free service that allows you to request brochures relating to investment plans designed specifically for children. Investments can be made with a lump sum or as a monthly savings plan. [Investing for Children Brochure Requests]

Best known for their reliable breakdown service, the AA are also able to provide competitively priced car insurance policies through their panel of leading UK insurers as well as comprehensive home and travel insurance protection. In addition, they are able to provide customers with motor finance quotes and personal loans. [Automobile Association]

Offer savings and investments, mortgages products and home insurance. [Birmingham Midshires Building Society]

HiSave Savings accounts. [ICICI Bank]

Traditionally, most of us prefer to do business with someone we know and trust - a preference they claim has made Ipswich Building Society popular with so many modern Suffolk people. [Ipswich Building Society]

Offer one of the easiest ways for you to invest, with dealing commissions starting from just £2.50. Their aim is to make share ownership easy and affordable for everyone. [The Share Centre]

The first lending and borrowing exchange. What they do is very simple: they put people who want to lend in touch with creditworthy people who want to borrow. [Zopa]

Scotland's first ever Building Society started life in 1848 as the Edinburgh Property Investment Company. Since those early days, there has been a substantial increase in the number of customers and the range of products offered. [Scottish Building Society]

For investments and mortgages. A top 30 society, it is one of the fastest growing in the country, with total assets exceeding £400 million and over 80,000 investors. [Hinckley and Rugby Building Society]

As a local society they claim to understand the needs of local people and be able to respond more quickly and with greater understanding than many other societies. They say you should not make a move without talking to them first. [Saffron Building Society]