Christmas is nearly here and as 2019 comes to an end we would like to take a moment to thank you for your valued support. Wishing you a Merry Christmas and the best of luck for a prosperous 2020!
Here are our Christmas opening hours in case you need to contact us over the holiday period:
Cyber-criminals love Christmas! But not because it’s the season of goodwill. Instead, hackers love it because it’s a time when many of us are more susceptible to social engineering scams.
We are delighted to announce that this quarter's winner of our Pauline Uludag Employee of the Year Award is Tracey Beard in our Corporate team. Here's a little bit more about our winner and the reason why our staff voted for her:
If you own a property, it’s important to protect it - and what’s inside it.
Chances are, your home spends some time empty - when you and your family are at work or school, away for the weekend, or on holiday.
Following the success of our popular first edition legal indemnity insurance guide, we're pleased to share the most up-to-date copy with over 45 covers included. Find out why it's so useful and download it for free:
On Thursday 24th October, Georgia and Serena from our property team organized a fabulous cheese and wine tasting afternoon for ladies in property, both colleagues and clients. We’re pleased to share details of the tasting and photos from the day:
CLEAR are delighted to reveal that we have been won two prestigious awards. On 13th September, we scooped up both the Insurance Broker of the Year and Commercial Lines Broker of the Year awards at the Insurance Age UK Broker Awards 2019.
We are delighted to announce our acquisition of fellow Brokerbility member Morrison Insurance Solutions based in Alcester, Warwickshire. The CLEAR Group has doubled in size since 2016 and now handles £135m in premiums. Morrison is CLEAR’s largest acquisition and second location in the Midlands, where further expansion is planned.
We are delighted to announce that this quarter's winner of our Pauline Uludag Employee of the Year Award is Andy Padgham in our Operations team. Here's a little bit more about our winner and the reason why our staff voted for him:
On Thursday 5th September, we hosted our annual golf day to thank clients, insurers and associates for their custom and assistance during the past 12 months.
Once again we were blessed with fantastic weather and great golf playing. Here's a summary of how the day went and some photos of the day:
Each year, we collaborate with our partners at Cockpit Arts, a Deptford-based business incubator for craftspeople, to offer a special award for professional makers who show particular promise.
We’re excited to announce that our charity fundraising this year has been given a significant boost.
Our friends at Ecclesiastical Insurance have generously offered to provide an additional £500 for each of our chosen charities this year, as part of their Closer To You scheme. Their mission is to give £100 million to charity by 2020, and one way they’re doing that is by giving donations directly to charities chosen by a selection of the brokers they collaborate with.
Every year the CLEAR awards celebrate staff excellence across the business. Whilst it's certainly taken us longer than usual to announce the winners of these prestigious annual employee awards, we are tremendously proud of their exceptional contributions to the business.
Each year, the Cockpit Arts/CLEAR Insurance Award celebrates the work of professional designer-makers, and each year we receive numerous exciting, intriguing, innovative entries from across the UK.
But there can only be one winner – and for 2019, we’re very pleased to announce that it’s ceramic artist Ula Saniawa.
This year our Leamington Spa office have chosen to support Myton Hospice as our Charity of the Year. This amazing charity offers specialist palliative and end of life care for the people of Coventry and Warwickshire.
When you hear the term “data breach” do you automatically think cyber-attack? It would be a reasonable reaction if you did, given the growing risk that UK businesses face from cyber-crime and malicious hacking.
Every year, we team up with Cockpit Arts, the UK’s only creative business incubator for craftspeople, to offer a special award for professional makers and artists. The winner receives a match funded studio place at Cockpit Arts - worth £2500* - plus an insurance package specially tailored for craftspeople from us at CLEAR, and more (interested? Enter for this year’s award here)
Every year, each of our offices nominate a selection of charities that they’d like to support with fundraising over the course of the following 12 months.
CLEAR’s charity commission then makes the final decision on who each office will support. They’ve now reviewed this year’s nominations, and, taking into consideration our stated aim to concentrate on smaller, local charities over the next 12 months, they’ve made their decision.
Cyber-criminals are increasingly targeting charities as they see them as soft targets with vulnerabilities they can easily exploit.
As the days grow shorter, and wet and wintry conditions set in, the risk of slipping outside in wet or icy conditions increases.
As an intermediary, distributing insurers’ products, we have to stand out from the crowd by maintaining distinctive values. As we grow we talk about what this means all the time, because strongly held, shared values can be powerful in influencing how we behave and the service we provide.
So in our business planning, our team gatherings and day to day activities we keep a focus on our:
