Press releases

RentalStep, a Liverpool-based rental platform helping tenants to boost their credit score, has been announced as one of six winners in the first round of the HM Treasury’s Rent Recognition Challenge. The firm, a client of Santander Business Banking and an early participant in Santander’s Liverpool-based business incubator programme, has won a £100,000 grant and the opportunity to bid for further funding from the remaining £1.4m prize pot.

Minds Matter, the retail arm of the national charity Mind, is piloting contactless donation terminals in 10 of its shops around the UK to bolster donations. The 12-month programme started on 16th February with the terminals funded by Santander Corporate & Commercial for the purposes of the pilot. Santander has been the banking partner for a number of Mind’s retail shops since 2014 and, if the pilot is successful, the contactless terminals could be rolled out across more of Minds’ shops.

The Institute of Competitive Socialising, a London-based leisure focused business, has opened its second Swingers crazy golf site in the capital following £3.5 million in funding from Santander Corporate & Commercial.

The Environment Trust has been awarded £5,000 to fund a year’s worth of workdays for nature conservation volunteers in Kingston.

Age UK York has received £5,000 to help fund its work in supporting isolated elderly people in the area who need advice on managing their finances.

• £100,000 Student Impact Fund run in partnership with Crowdfunder will help at least 50 student projects across the UK
• Fund launches with a £10,000 competition on 23 February

Santander today announces the launch of a new fund designed to support the challenges and priorities of students or student groups across the UK. Students with projects in need of financial support can now receive matched funding through an innovative partnership between Santander and Crowdfunder.co.uk .

Nene Park Trust has received £5,000 to fund the conversion of a vehicle store into a fully equipped workshop, from which its volunteer team will be able to create a wide range of products for use across the Park, which is located to the West of Peterborough. These products will include bird boxes and feeders, fencing, planters and willow work sculptures.

The Workers’ Educational Association (WEA) has received £5,000 to fund a mobile information technology unit. The new unit will be taken into communities in West Sussex to teach basic computing skills to unemployed people, single parent families and the el

Rumbletums Café has received £5,000 to enable them to recruit a Front of House Assistant and a Senior Training Support Worker to offer guidance in a work environment to young adults with learning disabilities in Kimberley, Nottinghamshire.

Ignite Trust, a Harrow-based community programme which provides activities and support for young people in the local area, has received £1,000 of matched funding from Santander’s innovative Changemaker Fund.

Altruist Enterprises, a Birmingham-based social enterprise which provides stress management and mental health awareness training to organisations and schools, has received £5,000 of matched funding from Santander’s innovative Changemaker Fund.

Disability Today, a Surrey-based community programme which provides the disabled community with access to news products, services and organisations tailored for their needs, has received £5,000 of matched funding from Santander’s innovative Changemaker Fund.

The 10,000 Hours Foundation, a Manchester-based community programme which promotes volunteer work among festival visitors, has received £2,500 of matched funding from Santander’s innovative Changemaker Fund.

On 6^th February 2018, Santander UK will officially open its newly designed and refurbished branch on the High Street, Crowborough.

Walsall-based G Simmons & Sons, the family-owned manufacturer of pork scratchings, pork crackling and related products, is to expand its premises to cater for record demand following £334,000 in funding from Santander Business Banking.

Loughborough University has received £5,000 to enable them to deliver money management skills workshops to students from disadvantaged backgrounds in the East Midlands.

In line with the FCA complaints data reporting requirements, figures published today by Santander UK reveal there were 206,122 complaints received by the bank during the second half of 2017.

Local Leicester-based family independent opticians Opticare Midlands Ltd (“Opticare”) has purchased the freehold premises of an existing practice in the region, expanding its footprint to four outlets, after receiving funding from Santander Business Banking.

The mother and son team behind one of west London’s more successful jewellery businesses have been able to realise their dream of expanding the business following funding from Santander Business Banking. Rathy Jewellers, based in Wembley, has received significant funding from Santander Business Banking to refurbish its existing store and take over an adjoining shop for its new brand proposition, IMJ Imitation Jewellery.