Home contents insurance

Protection for personal belongings in your home

Your rent payment doesn’t include insurance cover for personal belongings, furniture or carpets if they are damaged or stolen.

Replacing the contents of your home could prove very expensive, so you should consider taking out home contents insurance.

Buying tenant’s content insurance means your personal items are insured against events including:

  • fire
  • theft
  • vandalism
  • water damage

You can also add accidental damage cover as an optional extra

Salix Homes tenants’ insurance scheme

We work with one of the UK’s largest insurers to offer our customers home contents insurance that can be paid in weekly installments. All Salix Homes tenants and leaseholders can apply.

The policy includes:

  • no excess – nothing to pay when you make a claim
  • contents replaced as new (except for clothing and household linen)
  • cover for goods rented from weekly payment stores

We cannot guarantee that this scheme provides the cheapest insurance cover available, or that it provides the widest cover, so you are recommended to seek alternative quotations and choose the cover that best suits your needs.

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Win an Amazon Echo!

From Thursday 13 March to Sunday 13 April 2025, if you purchase home contents insurance through Salix Homes, you will be entered into a prize draw with a chance to win one of 5 Amazon Echo Dot smart speakers!

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How to apply

If you’re using a laptop or desktop computer, you can fill in a PDF application form. You’ll need to answer the first two questions for the rest of the form to load. Click the ‘submit’ button at the end of the form to return it to us by email.

If you’re on a mobile device, call us on 0800 218 2000 so we can help you with your application.

Acceptance restrictions may apply for conviction and claims experience.

The policy is arranged by Aon UK Ltd and underwritten by Aviva Insurance Limited who are both authorised and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority. Aviva Insurance Limited, Registered in Scotland Number 2116. Registered Office: Pitheavlis, Perth PH2 0NH. Authorised by the Prudential Regulation Authority and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority and the Prudential Regulation Authority.

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