Press releases

The number of businesses in Scotland that export goods and/ or services grew by 17% across the three-year period between 2012 and 2014 to 11,100 firms – one of the largest increases of any region in Great Britain

Scotland showed the most significant increase across Great Britain in terms of firms that export just goods, up 14% to 5,700 businesses, according to analysis by Santander Corporate & Commercial of the most recent ONS data¹

Santander Corporate & Commercial is dedicated to helping businesses export and trade internationally, and offers a unique and extensive range of services and products such as the Trade Portal and Trade Missions

• New Regular eSaver offering 5 per cent AER for new and existing customers
• Santander's latest 2 Year Fixed Rate ISA pays up to 1.35 per cent AER tax free (fixed) for 1|2|3 and Select customers
• Santander’s eISA offers easy, instant access and up to 1.0 per cent AER tax free rate (variable) for 1|2|3 and Select customers.

• 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.

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.

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

• Help to Buy ISA rate increased to 4.00%
• Available to UK first time buyers in branches and by calling 0800 234 6065

Wiltshire Sight has received £4,516 to fund specialist IT equipment for their Sight Advisers in the county.

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

• 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

The Zone Initiative has received £5,000 to fund outreach youth work for children and young people in Rankinston, East Ayrshire.

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

'Big Ideas' competition encourages students to transform the financial industry through innovative digital ideas with a £20,000 prize fund

Categories include the future of virtual banking, semantic search and digital authentication

Category winners include projects from Lancaster University, University of Surrey and Aston University. Santander creative thinkers award goes to the University of Strathclyde.

Cromer & District Foodbank has received £3,907 towards a part-time project coordinator to manage the day-to-day activities of the foodbank.

Discovery Grants of up to £5,000 to build skills, grow knowledge and support social innovation

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.

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