Successful vets Colin and Lizzy Whiting enjoy spending their disposable income on antiques. Marine engineer Ross Timmins and his wife Sarah, a hairdresser, work hard to budget what fund they have.

The Scaife-Lacy family are used to a weekly budget of £2,700, which they splash out on skiing trips. Restricted to around £170 each week, the Flinthams and their four children make do with free activities.

The Page family swap their eight bedroom house in West Yorkshire for a week in the Hollands' three-bed council house in Hartlepool

Sam and Richard Flint and their four children from a seven bedroom house in Hertfordshire change places with Nora and Lahoussine Elayadi and their three children, who love in a two bedroom council flat in Ealing, West London.

James wants to help episode buddy Antony realise his dreams of attaining a physics degree. Karate entrepreneur Matt has taken Andy under his wing, and finding out if bin lady Sharon's situation has changed.