Pound to £5k Challenge

Edition 89

I hope that you are having a lovely weekend!

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Free Lego Build Event

Visit a Lego store between 12pm - 2pm today (7 September) and you can build a Harry Potter Butterbeer Truck and take it home with you

Limited stock available in each store

Buy 1 Pizza Get Another for £1

Until 28 September, when you buy a pizza at Pizza Express, you can get a Classic pizza for just £1 all day, every day

Buy 1 Main Meal Get Another for 30p

Frankie & Benny’s may be slowly disappearing from its locations across the country, but if you are near one you can get a main meal for 30p when you buy another from Friday - Wednesday until the end of September

Free Starter at Nando’s

If you haven’t joined Nando’s Rewards yet, join by the end of September and you will instantly earn a “Green Reward” to use on your next order which is the equivalent of a free starter, 1/4 chicken or 3 chicken wings

It’s also worth noting that 12-18 year olds now receive a 20% discount when you bring your ID (20% off on up to £20 spend in a transaction)

FREE Tony’s Chocolate for Sky Customers

Sky have been releasing weekly gifts for their Sky VIP customers (simply download the MySky app and you’ll get access)

These gifts have been pretty good so far and have all been at Sainsbury’s superstores, I have skipped two weeks as they weren’t my cup of tea but this week’s is well worth grabbing!

1. FREE Sainsbury’s Taste The Difference pizza

2. FREE Sainsbury’s Taste The Difference ice lollies

3. FREE Love Corn corn snack (didn’t get)

4. FREE Sainsbury’s Taste The Difference sharing crisps

5. FREE Whitworths Wondermix nuts (didn’t get)

6. FREE Sainsbury’s Taste The Difference pizza

7. FREE Sainsbury’s Taste The Difference ice cream

8. FREE Sainsbury’s Taste The Difference cheese twists

This week you can get a FREE 90 gram bar of Tony’s Chocolonely chocolate bar from Sainsbury’s (usually £2.25 each)

You only get 30 minutes to scan the barcode from activating it so don’t activate too early and assume you’ll need help from a colleague as they can be temperamental to scan yourselves!

Starting University? Here’s Some Cash

Whether you are starting, or returning, to university there are some easy ways to bag some extra cash that are worth knowing about! Not for you? Forward this onto someone you know who may find it helpful!

Nationwide Student Account

Open a “FlexStudent” current account with Nationwide and you will get:

• £100 Cash

• £10 Just Eat voucher per month for 12 months

• Interest-free overdraft (£1k in Yr 1, £2k in Yr 2, £3k in Yr 3)

• £40 Just Eat vouchers if you refer 2 friends to open the same account

To be eligible, you need to pay £500 into the account by 12 December 2025

Keep using the account and you might receive £100 each Summer as part of Nationwide’s Fairer Share scheme

Lloyds Bank Student Account

Open a student account with Lloyds and pay £500 in by 31 October to receive £100 cash

For each month you make 20+ transactions November - April, you will receive a £15 Deliveroo voucher (£90 total available)

Santander Student Account

Open a Santander Edge student account and you will receive a FREE 4 year 16-25 railcard saving you 1/3 of the cost of train travel

If you open the bank account before 17 October and use your debit card once before 31 December 2025 you will be entered into a prize pool where you could win any of the following:

• 1 student will win £100,000

• 5 students will win £10,000

• 50 students will win £1,000

• 1,000 students will win £100

• All other students will win £20

NatWest / RBS Student Account

Open a student account with NatWest or RBS and you will get a 4 year Tastecard which gets you money off at restaurants across the UK and £85 cash

Trading 212 - Free Share worth up to £100

Trading 212 is a commission-free investing app that I have been using since 2020 and I have partnered up with them so that new customers can get a free share worth up to £100 when they:

1. Create an account through my link

2. Open a General Investment Account or Stocks & Shares ISA

3. Deposit £1 or more

You can sell your free share to re-invest the funds into another investment or you can withdraw the proceeds 30 days after receipt of the free share

The Bank Engine is an affiliate partner of Trading 212 and will earn a commission for every new account created via my link (AD)

Get £5 back instantly

If you haven’t used the Cheddar cashback app before, it works similarly to JamDoughnut or EverUp where you can buy a gift card for supermarkets and earn cashback into your account for doing so

Whilst the cashback rates aren’t necessarily the highest, the sign-up offer is well worth doing as you can get an INSTANT £5 + cashback

1. Download the Cheddar cashback app and create an account

2. When prompted enter the referral code “ENGINE3”

3. Purchase a gift card within 14 days

   (you can currently get 4% back at Tesco, 3.5% back at M&S, 3% back at ASDA, Sainsbury’s and Morrisons, and much more)

4. Once you make your first purchase you will receive a £5 bonus plus cashback on your gift card into your account

5. You can withdraw this immediately to your connected bank account

It is a nifty little app so you may wish to keep using it after this, but if not then you can simply delete it and be £5 better off!