Press releases

Variety, the Children’s Charity, has received £2,328 to fund specialist equipment for a new interactive sensory room at Friends of Victoria School in Birmingham.

Cornerstones Centre for the Community has received £3,900 to fund IT courses for older people in Chester le Street.

Canterbury Shopmobility has received £5,000 to fund a part-time employee to help maintain its wheelchair service for local disabled and elderly people in the city and surrounding areas.

• Santander Group will award 36,381 scholarships this year to students in all countries in which it operates, 6,807 of them in the UK.
• The scholarship programme, through the Bank’s Santander Universities division, is the largest international programme of its kind developed by a commercial enterprise.
• In the past five years, Santander Group has allocated 695 million euros to Higher Education programmes and projects and has awarded about 140,000 scholarships.

• Full-time workers spend 16 per cent of annual income on work costs
• Commuting costs £1,087 average per year
• Childcare costs as much as £3,910 per year
• Cost of working up 6 per cent since 2014 and 20 per cent since 2013

Great Yarmouth and Waveney Mind has received £5,000 to fund safe kits to help reduce self-harm amongst local young people.

The donation was provided by the Santander Foundation which offers grants to UK registered charities for projects that help disadvantaged people in local communities.

• One in four London homes will cost £1 million+ by 2030
   
• Yet less than 1 per cent of properties in the North East, Yorkshire and Humber, North West, Scotland and the East Midlands will be £1million+
   
• By 2030 the average property price in the UK expected to double - surpassing the half a million pound mark
   
• Prices set to soar to as much as 16.5 times average incomes by 2030

St Helens-based Reilly Concrete Pumping Ltd, one of the largest privately owned concrete pumping companies in the UK, is to expand its fleet of vehicle-mounted concrete pumping machines and invest further in the business to cater for strong demand following a £2.5 million funding deal with Santander Corporate & Commercial.

Value of UK production was £364 billion as at the end of 2014, up 3% year-on-year – the equivalent of £9.2 billion

The manufacture of luggage, handbags and saddlery was the fastest growing UK manufacturing sector, up 54% year-on-year and worth £205 million

Food and drink manufacturing continues its rise as a major UK growth industry: the manufacture of dairy, meat and pastry products is worth £21 billion to the UK economy alone

The manufacture of motor vehicles remains the UK’s largest manufacturing sector, worth £36 billion to the economy as at the end of 2014

• New Regent's Place branch officially opened by Santander UK's CEO Nathan Bostock

• Santander Cycles competition with £500 cash prizes to promote the opening

Virtus Traffic Management Solutions (“Virtus”), traffic management consultants, has purchased a new premises in Coalville following £150,500 in funding from Santander Corporate & Commercial.

Romsey Cancer Support Centre has received £5,000 to fund a new staff member to raise the charity’s profile to support local people affected by cancer.

Rushmoor Gymnastics Academy (RGA) has received £2,300 to fund soft gym equipment for disadvantaged children in Aldershot.

Mind BLMK has received £5,000 to fund a trained practitioner to teach Mindfulness to their users in Bedfordshire to help reduce stress, anxiety and depression.

The British Red Cross in Oxfordshire has received £5,000 to fund specialist wheelchairs for children who have become less mobile due to a recent injury or illness.

• Macclesfield Talking Newspaper for the Blind has received £1,000 to fund new equipment so that more blind people in Macclesfield can access the news.
• The donation was provided by the Santander Foundation which offers grants to UK registered charities for projects that help disadvantaged people in local communities.

Cotswold House has received £2,500 to improve the facilities and support it offers to homeless young women in Winsford.

Felixstowe Opportunity Group has received £3,500 to fund learning sessions for children with special needs in Felixstowe.

The donation was provided by the Santander Foundation which offers grants to UK registered charities for projects that help disadvantaged people in local communities.