Save hundreds of pounds on your annual mobile contract - have you heard of cashback mobile phone deals? If not then you could be missing out on hundreds of pounds of extra beer money each year. Ok, now you're interested, read on... How it works is you select a talk plan from one of the discount phone dealers such as the Carphone Warehouse backed One Stop Phone Shop, Mobiles.co.uk or e2save. On these sites you select a handset and network deal and sign up for a 12 or 18 month contract with one of the major networks as you would on the High Street. Orange, Vodafone, O2 etc will still collect their monthly tariff from your bank account by direct debit however when you receive your phone from the dealer it will receive a number of cashback vouchers. How this works is every 3 months you post in a voucher and a copy of your phone bill to the dealer, then in return they post you a cheque with a cashback value of sometimes up to 90% the cost of the contract! Or even easier than that some will post you a cashback cheque for up to £250 towards the cost of your contract just two weeks after signing up. So why would they do that you're probably thinking? Well each dealer is paid a commission by the major networks for recruiting new customers, so all they're doing is sharing some of this bounty with you. It gets better - you can even transfer your number between networks (but not across your existing network). So to summarise you get a snazzy new (and often free) handset, up to 90% off the cost of your regular contract (via cashback cheques) and you get to keep your number. For other mobile deals Dial-a-Phone is the UK's leading specialist supplier of mobile phones direct to the consumer.

Get cash for your old mobile - Mobile Phone Xchange give customers the opportunity to turn all their old mobile phones into cash. They are one of the biggest recyclers of mobile phones with exclusive contracts with some high street stores. What a great way to help the environment, recycle your old phones and earn money, statistics show that over 1 person per household has an old mobile phone, which is just put in a drawer somewhere. Check now to find out whether that old mobile phone could be worth up to £150!

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Trains and buses
Previously known as the Young Persons Railcard, the 16-25 Railcard is worth getting as it will save you a third on rail fares throughout Britain. It costs £24 a year, or £65 for 3 years, but you could recover the annual cost on just one journey! Once you have the railcard save more money and avoid the queues by booking your train tickets in advance through , if you're travelling soon you can pick the tickets up from the express ticket machines in the station so you don't need to wait for the post. For the more adventurous, Rail Europe has youth discount passes on European summer inter-railing passes or sleeper ski trains to the Alps aboard the snow train in the winter - complete with disco carriage!

For coach travel National Express offers easily the best value way to travel to 1200 destinations throughout the UK, to airports and into Europe. Their website offers easy access to a journey planner as well as printable e-tickets. Upon purchasing a discount card, they offer discounts for students and under 25s.

Cars, planes and ferries
Car rentals.co.uk - through agreements with service partners including Alamo, Hertz, Budget, Thrifty and Europcar, carrentals.co.uk offers customers a choice of over 4,000 rental locations worldwide and great prices.
Cheap4Ferries offers competitive online bookings for all the leading ferry operators on major ferry routes to France, Spain, Ireland, Holland and the Channel Islands.
- search discounted airline fares and hotel rooms with the UK's largest online travel agent.

Accommodation
STA Travel are the UK’s leading travel company for students and can source great discounts on flights, tours, accommodation and travel insurance.
Hostelbookers - search and book budget accommodation in over 110 countries.

Insurance and other
ISIC is an international student identity card which is essential for discounts when travelling overseas.
is a leading cheap travel insurance specialist which was established in 1988. By selling direct to the public, they cut out the middle man and can save customers up to 60% in commissions charged by other providers.

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