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keeping it simple


A single subscription opens the door to the full Life Porters package, which has been designed to ensure that every aspect of the life you have left back home in the UK will thrive while you are away, so you can thrive too, wherever you are.

Signing up is simple, and there are no complicated membership options where you have to upgrade to get the best possible service.  No need to choose how and when you can call on us, or how quickly you’ll get a response.  Just a simple, straightforward premium style of membership for everyone, based on your life stage.

For a reminder of what is included, click here

Individual

£45per month

Equivalent to £45 per month

Charged annually in advance at £540

No joining fee

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Member subscription : £45 per month, charged monthly in advance.

Joining fee:  One-off charge of £125 per individual membership to cover introductory profiling and set-up of the included services.

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Couple

£70per month

Equivalent to £70 per month

Charged annually in advance at £840

No joining fee

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Member subscription : £70 per month, charged monthly in advance.

Joining fee:  One-off charge of £175 per couple membership to cover introductory profiling and set-up of the included services.

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Family

£90per month

Equivalent to £90 per month

Charged annually in advance at £1080

No joining fee

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Member subscription : £90 per month, charged monthly in advance.

Joining fee:  One-off charge of £225 per family membership to cover introductory profiling and set-up of the included services.

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End your subscription at any time – just tell us 14 days before the next payment is due.  Click here to read more about membership fees.  

Your membership package is designed to reflect your life stage.  If you are one of a couple, or have dependent children, then choose the appropriate life stage category.

If you would like to discuss anything before you join, have bespoke requirements, or are interested in employee memberships or white label client memberships, please contact us to discuss how we can support you and for pricing options.

What's included

Your subscription includes a range of free-to-access essential support services, as listed below.

And as a member you can call on our concierge-style lifestyle management services as often as you need, without charge, to facilitate whatever you need.

Designed specifically for expats, we help you manage your back-home and lifestyle needs whilst overseas, sourcing and managing quality-assured, price-checked professionals, specialists and trades when necessary.  We also undertake projects for members where it matches our in-house skill-set.  Whoever is doing the job, all costs are confirmed and agreed before any work starts.

And because we spend time getting to know you from the start, with regular check-ins, we can help you identify where you may need support in the future, before anything becomes pressing.  All with nil pressure to buy any services, just reliable information to help you choose or see the best way ahead.

Being a member of Life Porters gives you free, year-round access to:

Annual review

360° concierge services

360° supplier sourcing

Virtual UK telephone number

Hosted UK postal address

Mail management

Property keyholding

Preferential CX rates

Read more about the services included in your membership

Services listed as included are available on-demand, subject to personal and fair usage.  Calls and postage charges incurred through the use of the mail and telephone services provided are chargeable.

When we source goods or services on your behalf, or we provide services beyond concierge facilitation, all fees and charges are plainly set out for agreement in advance.


Corporate

Driving loyalty and enhancing employee wellbeing

The benefits of Life Porters membership can be used to support employee engagement – a crucial driver of business growth.  Offering membership can reward and incentivise, encouraging loyalty and advocacy, while also tackling  assignment failure due to family issues.

employee engagement


We all know that encouraging and engaging employees pays off with improved performance. When you provide Life Porters membership, it can also help everyone to keep their eye on the ball during working hours, while offloading the stresses of managing personal lives, whether at home or abroad. The outcome is a feel-good factor that pays off at both individual and organisational level.

Research shows that companies with highly engaged employees deliver higher client satisfaction and productivity levels which results in better performance across the board. Studies point to such companies achieving significant growth compared to their less engaged competitors, even quadrupling revenue or doubling profit.

Figs: Gallup; Hay Group

Reward

Choose membership and start rewarding your staff – whether to incentivise individuals or as part of your employee benefit package – and let us drive up the feelgood factor.

Workshops

Host specialist sessions and webinars from Life Porters, choosing from a range of topics designed to help employees manage their lives and tackle concerns.

Surgeries

Host a Life Porters surgery, with a Personal Porter visiting and handling staff needs in person or virtually, whether weekly, monthly, or as a one-off to kick start your staff reward membership.

Pick’n’mix

Have a Life Porters package made to measure, incorporating the essential elements to suit your organisation.

portering reflections


“Overseas assignment failure because of family issues has a cost for both the company and the employee. Providing access to services such as expert relationship counselling or care for a parent at home in the UK, allows us to demonstrate real support for the personal wellbeing of our expat employees – and that shows through to the bottom line.”  

“It’s a no-brainer once you add up the number of previously lost hours being reclaimed by staff, which we can see through an anonymised reporting process.  And the benefit goes beyond simply recouping the time that would otherwise be spent dealing with personal issues during work hours, as it often consumes emotional energy way beyond the task itself.”

“The career counselling has had unexpected results, helping us to understand employee aspirations or identify frustrations. We find staff are more open to discussing with an independent professional who can help them unpack things and see how to articulate it internally, where previously they may have just held it in and moved on, or given up and left.”     

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Personal

Simplifying life back home - wherever you are and whoever is on the journey

Lack of time to manage our increasingly complex personal lives creates stress and keeps us from enjoying the things that matter.  Buy some happy time for yourself by letting Life Porters take the strain.

stress-busting


Life Porters has been designed to reduce the stresses of global living, by helping everyone to better manage the life they leave back home.

Whether the move overseas is a personal choice or a company move, too often the focus is all on adjustment at the destination.  That’s vital, but may overlook the support needed to get your affairs in order before leaving and managing ongoing family, property and other responsibilities back home while away.

By providing guidance and support for family and personal affairs in the UK from the outset, relocating overseas has the best chance of success.  And once things are set up, Life Porters will be standing in your shoes, doing the things you can’t do while you’re away, right through to supporting your repatriation when it’s time to return.

Putting a price on happiness

Our incomes may rise and our lifestyles may become more comfortable, but whatever our financial wellbeing, the big malaise of modern life is the lack of time available to manage our increasingly complex personal lives, and the competing demands of household, family and friends.

This pressure can undermine our personal, and even physical, wellbeing if it leads to stress.

Research has shown that people who outsource their personal tasks and responsibilities are happier than those who simply spend money on material products.

Joining the Life Porters community allows you to solve complex issues, or offload dreary tasks, so you can focus on what really counts and will make you smile.

Buying time promotes happiness : Whillans et al

portering reflections


“Offloading so much relocation donkey work meant I could pull back and concentrate on what really mattered to me.  I didn’t even know how to tackle some things, but just didn’t want the burden of others.”

“Dealing with the logistics of moving our much loved dog to Canada with us was almost the final straw.  It may sound ridiculous, but finding we didn’t need to become experts in pet transport was such a relief.”

“I avoided a significant tax bill by having someone checking and explaining how different decisions I take may affect my tax and legal position, now and in the future.  Before, I just went blind.”

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Contact

Pick up a porter


We'd love to hear from you, whether you've got a query, are ready to join, have a big project you want to discuss, or to suggest a new service that would make your life easier.
As well as using the contact form below, you can call us, use our website live chat, WhatsApp, Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and LinkedIn (our social media links are on every page).

Please do not include any sensitive personal information using any of these website links or via social media.

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As well as contacting us directly, you can also schedule a time for us to call you back to handle your enquiry :

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Message us


Email: info@lifeporters.com

Tel: +44 (0)20 7846 0096

WhatsApp

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Meet us


We can meet face-to-face if you’re in the UK, or by video call using Skype, Zoom, Teams etc, as suits.

For in-person meetings we can get together at our central London base on Maddox Street, just a couple of minutes from Oxford Circus.  Please do not visit without an appointment as we may not be available in person.

Mail us


124 City Road
London
EC1V 2NX

This is our admin address, not our operational base, and should be used for postal correspondence only.  If you can email instead, please do so.


Us

Helping you master life's maze

When we take care of you and your family, we draw on knowledge and expertise accumulated through decades of community-building and professional services delivery.

our story


Life Porters was the outcome of a series of conversations.  Friends, family and colleagues told stories of needing support to manage daily life, because they were in a different country, maybe in a different time zone, or because their life as busy professionals meant there simply weren’t enough hours in the day to deal with the everyday. The response from Life Porters founder Maggie Taylor was to draw together the specialists and services needed to create a one-stop solution.

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our values


Pushing boundaries and ourselves to deliver more.

At the heart of everything, we are focused on the well-being of every member, with a commitment to treating everyone with respect and as an individual.

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our approach


We bring decades of experience in creating and nurturing award-winning communities and networks. In Life Porters, we have created a hub of collaborative support to deliver personalised, focused outcomes for each member of our community. And because we are independent, you won’t get any hard sell as we seek out the best solution to help you master the maze of life.

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Privacy Policy

Who we are

Our website address is: https://lifeporters.com

About this privacy policy

This privacy policy sets out how Life Porters uses and protects any information that you give Life Porters when you use this website.

Life Porters is committed to ensuring that your privacy is protected. Should we ask you to provide certain information by which you can be identified when using this website, then you can be assured that it will only be used in accordance with this privacy statement.

Life Porters may change this policy from time to time by updating this page. You should check this page from time to time to ensure that you are happy with any changes. This policy is effective from 23rd May 2018

What we collect

We may collect the following information:

  • name and job title
  • contact information including email address
  • demographic information such as postcode, preferences and interests
  • other information relevant to customer surveys and/or offers

What we do with the information we gather

We require this information to understand your needs and provide you with a better service, and in particular for the following reasons:

  • Internal record keeping.
  • We may use the information to improve our products and services.
  • We may periodically send promotional emails about new products, special offers or other information which we think you may find interesting using the email address which you have provided.
  • From time to time, we may also use your information to contact you for market research purposes. We may contact you by email, phone, fax or mail. We may use the information to customise the website according to your interests.

Security

We are committed to ensuring that your information is secure. In order to prevent unauthorised access or disclosure, we have put in place suitable physical, electronic and managerial procedures to safeguard and secure the information we collect online.

How we use cookies

A cookie is a small file which asks permission to be placed on your computer’s hard drive. Once you agree, the file is added and the cookie helps analyse web traffic or lets you know when you visit a particular site. Cookies allow web applications to respond to you as an individual. The web application can tailor its operations to your needs, likes and dislikes by gathering and remembering information about your preferences.

We use traffic log cookies to identify which pages are being used. This helps us analyse data about web page traffic and improve our website in order to tailor it to customer needs. We only use this information for statistical analysis purposes and then the data is removed from the system.

Overall, cookies help us provide you with a better website, by enabling us to monitor which pages you find useful and which you do not. A cookie in no way gives us access to your computer or any information about you, other than the data you choose to share with us.

You can choose to accept or decline cookies. Most web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser setting to decline cookies if you prefer. This may prevent you from taking full advantage of the website.

Links to other websites

Our website may contain links to other websites of interest. However, once you have used these links to leave our site, you should note that we do not have any control over that other website. Therefore, we cannot be responsible for the protection and privacy of any information which you provide whilst visiting such sites and such sites are not governed by this privacy statement. You should exercise caution and look at the privacy statement applicable to the website in question.

Controlling your personal information

You may choose to restrict the collection or use of your personal information in the following ways:

  • whenever you are asked to fill in a form on the website, look for the box that you can click to indicate that you do not want the information to be used by anybody for direct marketing purposes
  • if you have previously agreed to us using your personal information for direct marketing purposes, you may change your mind at any time by writing to or emailing us at info@lifeporters.com

We will not sell, distribute or lease your personal information to third parties unless we have your permission or are required by law to do so. We may use your personal information to send you promotional information about third parties which we think you may find interesting if you tell us that you wish this to happen.

You may request details of personal information which we hold about you under the Data Protection Act 1998. A small fee will be payable. If you would like a copy of the information held on you please write to us at 49 Greek Street, London, W1D 4EG or any subsequent Registered Address as shown on this website.

If you believe that any information we are holding on you is incorrect or incomplete, please write to or email us as soon as possible, at the above address. We will promptly correct any information found to be incorrect.

Life Porters Limited  Kemp House  160 City Road  London EC1V 2NX
Tel: 020 7846 0096
Email:  info@lifeporters.com
Web: www.lifeporters.com

Life Porters Limited is a company registered in England & Wales : Reg Office: Kemp House  160 City Road  London EC1V 2NX : Co Reg No: 11269234