Please use the Quicklinks menu below in order to navigate through the site.

Quicklinks

Who we are

Our history and our brand

Scottish Widows has been working to help people plan their financial futures since it was founded as Scotland's first mutual life office in 1815.

Here you can find out more about our history and how we became one of the most recognised brands in the life, pensions and investment industry, winning a range of financial services awards along the way. (Source: IPSOS Brand & Advertising Tracking Study, February 2007).

From a meeting in an Edinburgh coffee house in 1812, Scotland's first mutual life office was born. Find out more about our history.

Scottish Widows is one of the most recognised brands in our market sector. Find out more about the building of a brand icon and meet the latest Widow.

See some of the recognition and many awards we have won from the financial services industry over recent years.

We have been a member of the Lloyds TSB Marketing Group since 2000. Here are some of our sister companies and their website addresses.

As part of the Lloyds TSB Group, Scottish Widows is proud to be an Official Provider of the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games