Andrew Bibby - selected journalism

The selection of articles below is taken from my recent journalism, covering the broad areas of consumer rights, personal finance and social issues.

For journalism on other specialist areas, please follow these links: Telework, ICT, Co-operative business/social enterprise, social partnership and industrial relations, Outdoors. Details of published books and reports are also available.

Recent articles

• Local shopping - communities fight back. Linked stories: Fighting off the megastores and Shopping at Farmers' markets. (Choice, 2010)
• Call centres: time to get your own back (Choice, 2009)
• Bartering with your time: time banks in Britain (Choice, 2008)
• On track: how communities are working to defend their rail services (Choice, 2008)
• Pensions change benefits unmarried partners (Observer, 2008)
• London blind ramblers (Choice, 2008)
• Looking after Britain's landscapes (Choice, 2007)
• Britain's charities need charity trustees (Choice, 2007)
• Your identity - left on your front step (The Observer, 2007)
• German companies take the lead in turning European (Financial Times, 2006)
• The Network for Social Change: philanthropy the collective way (Financial Times, 2006)
• How to get your money to Spain (The Observer, 2006)
• RFID tracking works even from beyond the grave (Financial Times, 2006)
• Leylandii... and other problems with the neighbours (Choice, 2006)
• The task and travail of buying train tickets (The Observer, 2006)
• Left hanging on the line as call centres prioritise the wealthy (Mail on Sunday, 2006)
• Invasion of the privacy snatchers: RFID and employee surveillance (Financial Times, 2006)
• Cross-border philanthropy: giving to good causes in other countries (Financial Times, 2005)
• The long wait for compensation for refugees of Nazi Austria (The Observer, 2005)
• Building houses with straw bales (The Observer, 2005)
• Changing times for Britain's funeral businesses (Financial Times, 2005)
• Car clubs - how sharing vehicles can save money (The Observer, 2005)
• Income tax: can pay, won't pay (The Observer, 2005)
• The bank that is trying to become a 'European Company' (Financial Times, 2005)
• Email scam targets holocaust victims' bank accounts (The Observer, 2005)

Archive of earlier work

• Venture philanthropy - the UK experience (Financial Times, 2004)
• Mobile phone insurance - it's a steal? (The Observer, 2004)
• The Funding Network: supporting good causes the collaborative way (The Observer, 2004)
• The 'conscientious objectors' who withhold their income tax (The Observer, 2003) See also more recent article above.
• Using the Data Protection Act for consumer rights (The Observer, 2003)
• Financial protection for UK credit unions (The Observer, 2002)
• Woodland burials (Choice, 2002)
• Insurance holocaust claims (The Observer, 2002)
• Trying to save the Robin Hood pub (The Observer, 2001)
• Doing without a car (The Observer, 2001)
• Buying on-line — protection for UK consumers (Choice, 2001)
• How to find an environmentally friendly mortgage (The Observer, 2000)
• Staying green from the cradle to the grave (The Observer, 2000)
• A new currency in south London: the arrival of 'time money' in Lewisham (The Observer, 2000)
• Is 'Philanthropy' still in the Dictionary? (The Observer, 1999)
• Car sharers save money - but can they agree about furry dice? (The Observer, 1996)
• The rich who want to give their wealth away (The Independent, 1994)