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Santander UK has today launched a new £1 million university scholarship programme that will help 100 students from under-represented groups with annual grants of £10,000 over three years

Santander offers UK university start-ups opportunity to win share of £150,000 equity-free funding through Santander X UK Awards 2022

New research by Santander has revealed that the average UK worker believes it’s too late to change careers by the age of 45 – because they can’t keep up with technology.  A study of 2,000 adults found one in five (21%) would like to retrain and start a new career, but worry they are ‘too old’, while almost one in five (17%) workers feels they lack the digital skills needed to take this step.
 

The potential business success stories of tomorrow have been unveiled at the Santander X Entrepreneurship Awards 2021, a prestigious UK-wide entrepreneurial business pitching competition for students and recent graduates.

Santander, through Santander Universities UK, and The Open University today announce the launch of Union Black: Britain’s Black Cultures and Steps to Anti-Racism, a free online education programme for all university communities across the UK, designed to drive cultural change across the higher education sector.

Over 80 budding entrepreneurs from across the UK are participating in the Santander X Entrepreneurship Awards 2021 and are in with a chance of receiving up to £75,000 of business development support at the competition final, due to take place at Wembley Stadium in London in October.

Santander, through Santander Universities, is coordinating a £1million investment into a ground-breaking higher education employability programme that will unlock the potential of hundreds of autistic students and boost the neurodiversity of the nation’s workforce.

Two top emerging entrepreneurs, and potential business success stories of tomorrow, have been unveiled at the tenth annual Santander Universities Entrepreneurship Awards 2020, a prestigious UK-wide entrepreneurial business pitching competition for students and recent graduates.

New research from Santander UK reveals that over a quarter of students currently run or plan to run a business whilst at university. The study – which polled 1,000 undergraduates from across the UK – found that almost one in ten (9%) entrepreneurs are already running a business alongside their studies, an increase from just 6% recorded in 2018, with an additional 18% of students saying they have plans to start their own business venture in the near future.
 

• Santander Universities launches inaugural STEMships programme dedicated to supporting aspiring women engineers
• Jenson Button joined Santander UK CEO Nathan Bostock at the 2019 Formula Student global competition at Silverstone to announce the first-ever STEMship beneficiaries
• Two-year engineering support initiative aims to address the lack of diversity within the UK engineering industry

• Finalists of the 2019 Santander Universities Entrepreneurship Awards announced
• Top prize of £25,000 up for grabs at the national final in London this October
• Two winning businesses will be provided with a fully funded Santander intern and bespoke mentoring from business experts
• Santander Startup Programme supporting over 150 student businesses

• The three-year agreement will provide funding for the University and benefit both students and the local community
• Initiatives include the University’s 'First Generation' programme, a scheme which will support local students whose parents did not attend university

• The three-year agreement will provide funding for the University and benefit both students and the local community

Birmingham City University and Santander have signed a new three-year partnership agreement that will provide, among other support, scholarships to enable students of the university to enhance their leadership skills and graduate employability.

• The three-year agreement will provide funding of £100,000 over three years benefitting both students and the local community
• Initiatives include supporting students from the University’s new School of Medicine, due to open in September 2019

• Finalists of the Santander Universities Entrepreneurship Awards announced
• Top prize of £25,000 up for grabs at the national final in London this November
• Over a quarter of students run or plan to run a business whilst they are at university

The UK’s most entrepreneurial students are unveiled today, each of whom are in with a chance to receive up to £25,000 worth of seed funding. Amongst the finalists of the eighth annual Santander Universities Entrepreneurship Awards may be the nation’s next great business success story.

• Students can earn up to 3% interest with the 1|2|3 Student Current Account
• The account also offers a free 4-year Santander 16-25 Railcard, saving students up to £752¹
• Student bank of choice²
• Students whose parents have Santander Home Insurance can have their belongings covered under their parents policy³ whilst living away at University

• 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.