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Included with your membership is a curated mix of information designed to inform your expat life and keep you abreast of new ideas and happenings in the UK and beyond.
Setting aside time to learn about new things, or sift through the media to find information that is relevant and mind-expanding takes time. We curate a flow of information, filtered to match your personal interests and ambitions.
Alongside, our specialists provide a flow of informative articles and commentary on the issues that may affect you, with in-depth coverage of current issues.
You can also commission us to undertake research or to identify learning opportunities for personal development.
Whether you’d like to write a book about your life overseas, or learn a new life skill, we have the connections to make it happen.
Learning for life
Use it or lose it they say, but researchers at the York University have found that foreign language skills may be recalled 50 years later, even though it may not have been…
Love letters across the ocean
Keeping a long distance relationship in peak fitness is a challenge: just ask any expat who is separated from their partner by a plane journey. But coming up with some…
Friends for ever and a day
Being far from friends and family may seem a challenge whether you're a permanent expat or temporary digital nomad. Thinker and author Matthew Syed has been exploring the…
Exploring destination eco-credentials
Do you know just how green your overseas home really is? If you care about eco-credentials, then the 2022 Environmental Performance Index (EPI) provides a data-driven…
Talking openly about ageing
Living overseas and leaving elderly or vulnerable relatives behind is just one of the challenges faced by expats, world travellers and digital nomads. For those in middle…
Offloading tasks for better days
When you are working and living away from the UK, it can be harder to manage the mundane and easier to allow work to fill the gaps where friends and social activities were…