Write for Mint Wharf
We publish contributed guides that make UK household money easier to understand. If you can show the working, we'd like to read your pitch.
Topics we'd like
- Council tax bands, discounts and how to challenge a band
- Reading a payslip, P60 or P45
- Student loan repayments, with worked sums
- Childcare costs and the support available
- Budgeting on irregular or self-employed income
- Water, broadband and insurance bills: what to check at renewal
- State Pension records and filling gaps
- Marriage Allowance, tax refunds and other commonly missed basics
- Spotting money scams aimed at households
What we'll decline
- Personal recommendations, or "the best" of anything
- Tips on individual investments, shares or funds
- Crypto, trading, gambling, or get-rich material
- Promotion of payday loans or high-cost credit
- Pieces that exist mainly to carry a link
- Rewritten or machine-spun text with no checking
- Figures with no source or no tax year
The rules
Length. Between 800 and 1,500 words, with at least one worked example or table where the topic suits it.
Original work. It must be your own, unpublished elsewhere, and yours to give us. You are responsible for checking it before you send it.
Sources. Link every figure to a primary source such as GOV.UK, HMRC, Ofgem, FCA or a similar body, and state the tax year. Invented statistics, surveys or quotes will end the conversation.
Disclosure. Tell us about anyone paying you or asking you to write the piece, and any commercial interest you or your employer have in the topic. If there is one, the article will say so, and links will be marked accordingly.
Tone. General education, in plain British English. Include a short, natural note saying when a reader should see a professional. If you are regulated, your firm's compliance rules are yours to handle.
Editing. We may edit for clarity and accuracy, ask for changes or decline a piece at any stage. We may also update figures later as rates change.
How to pitch
Email [email protected] with the subject "Guest article pitch". Give us a working title, the question it answers, a short outline, the sources you plan to use, your disclosure, and one link to something you have written. Please pitch before you write the whole thing.