Personal Possessions Insurance

Personal possessions insurance covers your belongings when you take them out and about or on holiday. It’s often an add-on to standard contents insurance, which is designed to protect your contents at home.

If you regularly go out with your tennis racket, guitar or an expensive watch, you may want to add personal possessions cover to your home insurance. This will give you the best level of cover if your things are lost, stolen or damaged.

This page covers what you need to know about the add-on to our Bronze, Silver and Gold Home Insurance policies. So you can decide whether it’s right for you.

You can add personal possessions insurance to your existing home insurance policy. It offers a higher level of cover for certain valuable items in the event of loss, theft or damage. You’re also covered when you take your items away from home or on holiday.

But what do we mean by personal possessions? These are typically the sorts of items you keep on your person while you are outside your home, especially the items you regularly take out and about with you.

Personal possessions include:
 

• Binoculars
• Camping equipment
• Cash that belongs to you personally, not to your business
• Children’s motorcycles
• Clothing
• Go-karts
• Golf buggies
• Guns
• Hearing aids
• Jewellery and watches
• Musical instruments (portable)
• Prams and pushchairs
• Sports equipment
• Wheelchairs and mobility scooters

  Drones are excluded

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Our Home Insurance consists of two separate types of insurance: Buildings and Contents Insurance.

Contents Insurance covers your belongings while they’re inside your home. It covers the repair or replacement of stolen items and things damaged by fire, flooding, natural disasters and vandalism. This cover is for things like televisions, carpets, furniture, clothes, cash and the contents of your garden.

Contents Insurance covers the items inside your home and garden under one policy. However, you may want to consider adding personal possessions cover to your policy if:
 

You regularly take certain items out of the house

Your things are particularly valuable

You’re storing them somewhere that’s not your main residence

No. Electronic devices are some of the most common items you will expect to take on the move. However, to get cover for these items with a Bronze, Silver or Gold policy you will need our gadget insurance add-on.

Our gadget insurance add-on covers theft, loss and damage of:
 

• Laptops
• Smartphones and mobile phones
• Tablets
• Digital cameras and camera lenses
• Video cameras
• Sat navs and GPS devices
• E-readers
• Headphones and earphones
• Portable audio equipment/speakers
• Portable games consoles
• Smartwatches

Find out more about our gadget insurance add-on

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Personal possessions insurance offers additional cover for your much-loved items while you're on the road or staying in other places temporarily.

While some standard contents insurance policies may cover items you have on your person, your coverage may have certain limits. For instance, it might not cover you if you are abroad for longer than two weeks, or if the item you want to insure is not usually kept at your home.

But, with our personal possessions add-on to your Bronze, Silver and Gold Home Insurance, you can enjoy peace of mind knowing your items will be covered while they're within arm's reach or locked away, out of sight. 

Better still, if you’re living away from home for a while, our personal possessions insurance may be able to replace lost, stolen or damaged items that you urgently need such as a hearing aid or child’s pushchair.

Personal possessions could prove useful for the following:

While travelling abroad, there may be a limit to the amount you can claim on your travel insurance policy or on the types of items that are covered.

If you are taking valuable items abroad, you may want to make sure you have more comprehensive cover. Personal possessions insurance could be a good idea – particularly for jewellery and camping equipment.

As well as taking out a suitable policy, make sure you are taking steps to stay safe abroad. Don’t walk alone while carrying valuable items and make sure you secure your items in your hotel safe when you’re not using them.

Personal possessions insurance can also cover your items if you take them to work.

While it won’t cover items you specifically use for work, it will cover items you have on you such as jewellery, cash and music or sports equipment. This includes personal items you leave at work, such as things you store in a locker.

If you work from home and use personal items for work-related purposes, you may want to speak to your employer about getting your items covered by your company’s insurance.

If you are a student at university living away from home, we offer a Student Cover add-on for our Bronze, Silver and Gold policies. This insures the contents in your student accommodation. 

However, you may benefit from our additional personal possessions add-on, if you:
 

Expect to move around a lot

Want to move freely between home and another location, such as university.

Most fully comprehensive car insurance policies cover items inside the car against theft, loss or damage.

However, there could be instances in which your car insurance does not cover you:
 

Your car insurance policy’s upper limits may not be high enough to cover your more valuable personal belongings

Non-comprehensive (third-party and third-party/fire/theft) policies usually don’t include this level of cover

Therefore, you may want to take out our personal possessions add-on with your Bronze, Silver or Gold Home Insurance.

This could be especially useful if you regularly carry expensive equipment in your vehicle, although we can’t cover you for anything work-related that’s lost or damaged.

As well as choosing the right level of cover, make sure you follow the below general best-practice guidelines:

Keeping your items safe in the car
 

• 1. Avoid leaving valuable items in your vehicle for long periods – take them indoors with you overnight if possible.

• 2. Lock valuable items away in either the glove compartment or the boot so that potential thieves can’t spot them through the glass.

• 3. If you leave something valuable in your boot, make sure to put the parcel shelf in.

• 4. If you leave something on your back seat, use a window screen to obscure the view.

• 5. Lock your vehicle, turn on the alarm and secure the keys somewhere safe in your home.

• 6. If you have a wireless key, store it as far away from the vehicle as possible to stop thieves using range extenders to mimic the key.

  
  

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With our Bronze, Silver or Gold Home Insurance policies, you can change your add-ons to suit your new circumstances at any time, without admin fees or hidden charges.