@Kowalski - Awesome, is this how you fund your travels?! Money Saving Expert is a great site I will check out that thread. Sounds complicated though given im not much of a betting man.

@Rebus - Thanks a lot, sound advice. Was this fund graded low/medium/high risk do you know? I was thinking of playing it safe to begin and start investing in either FTSE 100, 250 or All Share funds because then at least I have some vague idea of the companies listed and how the UK market is performing.