Blue Light Card helps emergency services personnel access exclusive discounts from thousands of UK brands, helping everyday spending go further. Whether you work on the frontline, behind the scenes, or have retired from eligible emergency services, membership gives access to savings across shopping, travel, motoring, entertainment, food, technology and more.
Emergency services workers use Blue Light Card to save across a wide range of everyday spending categories. Whether you're looking to reduce household costs, save on family activities or make larger purchases more affordable, thousands of offers are available from leading UK brands.
Blue Light Card is designed specifically for the people who keep the country running. Members can access discounts across a huge range of categories including fashion, groceries, travel, entertainment, home improvement, technology, motoring and family days out.
With exclusive member-only offers, access to special events and discounts from thousands of brands, Blue Light Card has become one of the UK's most recognised discount services for emergency workers. Eligible emergency service personnel can access offers from more than 15,000 participating brands through a single membership.
Accessing Emergency Services Discounts through Blue Light Card is simple. Once your membership is active, you can browse thousands of offers from leading UK brands across shopping, travel, motoring, entertainment, food, technology and more.
Whether you're looking for everyday savings or planning a larger purchase, Blue Light Card brings together exclusive member offers in one place, making it easy to discover and use discounts whenever you need them.
If you have questions about your eligibility or the type of ID needed, view our support resources here.
Step 1: What is your employment status?
Step 2: What organisation do you work in?
Blue Light Card Tickets offers members the opportunity to enjoy exclusive free tickets to a wide range of events, including music, comedy, sport, and family entertainment — a small way of showing our appreciation for all that you do.
In the past year, we've given away over £7 million worth of free tickets, helping our members make the most of their downtime and create special memories with those who matter most.
Blue Light Card members can purchase discounted Shopping Cards, allowing our valued NHS Staff members to save on every shop, every day.
Blue Light Card is available to many emergency service workers, including Ambulance Service personnel, Fire Service personnel, Police and HM Coastguard staff, alongside other eligible services. Eligibility requirements apply.
On average, members could save £3,126 a year with their Blue Light Card.
*Information correct as of 6 November 2025. Estimated potential annual savings figure is calculated using our top 10% of offers available during September 2024 to August 2025 using an average combined discount rate of 22% across all our savings categories and applying it against the average disposable income of an average Blue Light Card member based on salary. Average salary information from a range of sources available upon request. Average disposable income based on Office of National Statistics data from April 2023 to March 2024 (FYE 2024) for family spending in the UK, excluding categories of spend where no Blue Light Card offers are available.
Blue Light Card was created to recognise the incredible contribution made by emergency service workers across the UK. Whether you're responding to emergencies, protecting communities, supporting critical incidents or helping people in times of need, we believe your service deserves recognition beyond the workplace.
That's why millions of eligible members use Blue Light Card to access exclusive savings every day. From Police and Fire Service personnel to Ambulance Service teams and HM Coastguard staff, we're proud to help emergency workers save with thousands of trusted brands across the UK. Blue Light Card is available to a broad range of emergency services and frontline sectors and provides access to thousands of discounts through a single membership.
Enter your monthly spending in each category to see your potential annual savings.
*Information correct as of 6 November 2025. Estimated potential annual savings figure is calculated using our top 10% of offers available during September 2024 to August 2025 using an average combined discount rate of 22% across all our savings categories and applying it against the average disposable income of an average Blue Light Card member based on salary. Average salary information from a range of sources available upon request. Average disposable income based on Office of National Statistics data from April 2023 to March 2024 (FYE 2024) for family spending in the UK, excluding categories of spend where no Blue Light Card offers are available.
**Applying a 3.5% discount rate available through our Voucher Shop (selected grocers) against an average weekly grocery spend of £112 based on a survey of 800,000 BLC Members - February 2025).
We only use the photo of your ID document(s) for the purpose of confirming your eligibility for a Blue Light Card. Once it's been reviewed by a member of the team, it gets deleted from our system.
For further information about the data that we collect, please refer to our Privacy Policy.
If you've uploaded a photo of your work ID, we aim to have reviewed this within 72 working hours (Monday-Friday), but often sooner.
Once we've reviewed the ID, you'll receive an email to confirm if the work ID has been approved or declined.
If you've not received an email or any update to your application, please check the My Card section of your account for the latest update on your application and any outstanding actions that you need to take.
Once your application has been completed, you will be able to access offers the following day.
Yes, retired emergency service personnel are eligible for Blue Light Card membership, subject to verification requirements. Find out more information about ID to be provided here.
If you have retired since you first signed up and are renewing your card, you'll be able to update your employment details as the first stage of renewing your card.
Yes! Blue Light Card offers Shopping Cards to our valued members.
Shopping Cards are digital gift cards that you can buy at a discounted price.
Blue Light Card has Shopping Cards available for nationwide supermarkets such as:
Tesco
Sainsburys
ASDA
Morrisons
Iceland
Farmfoods
Waitrose
M&S
Emergency Services can save money on their weekly shop, wherever they shop, every time they shop.
You can present your digital card in high street stores to use our offers however, it is to the company's discretion if they wish to see a physical Blue Light Card instead.
Many offers available through Blue Light Card are exclusive to members and not publicly available elsewhere.
