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Acorns Children’s Hospice has received £5,000 to fund support groups for young people with life limiting and life threatening conditions. The charity offers a holistic service to meet the specialist needs of both the children and young people and their families, including the bereaved.

Oldham-based HTF Transport Ltd, a leading haulage and logistics firm, has expanded its fleet with the purchase of a truck-mounted Palfinger Crane following a significant asset finance facility with Santander Business Banking. The vehicle will allow HTF to support an increased number of clients with a broader range of transport solutions, in line with the company’s UK growth strategy.

Northern College in Barnsley has received a grant of £5,000 to fund money management skills courses for adults with learning disabilities in the local area.

Eleven of the Midlands’ aerospace cluster fastest -growing SMEs visited Rzeszow, Poland, for a trade mission from 16-19 April organised by Santander UK and the Midlands Aerospace Alliance.

• New report from Santander UK and EEF on the UK’s mechanical equipment industry concludes that growth will come from intelligent manufacturing, ‘4IR’ technologies, and renewable energy demand
• Other near-term opportunities include upscaling the ‘after sales and service’ market, fulfilling demand from the global construction equipment industry, and new funding models such as leasing
• Export opportunities key for the sector with over half the demand generated from overseas sales

Santander Corporate & Commercial has appointed Mark Challis as a Director, Financial Sponsors team.

Golden Valley House Day Nurseries (“Golden Valley”), a family owned children’s nursery will be opening a third nursery and expanding to Bristol after receiving funding in excess of £1 million from Santander Business Banking.

• Two thirds (65%) of firms are confident their businesses will grow over the next three years; more than a quarter (28%) are very confident 
• The latest Santander Trade Barometer¹ found greater confidence among firms that export: 66% compared to 61% for firms that are just focused on the UK 
• More than half (52%) of firms that describe themselves as ‘international’ say their business has improved over the past year

Nine of the UK's fast growth companies visited Chile and Argentina for a week-long trade mission in March organised by Santander UK. The firms, the majority from Cambridge and Anglia, undertook a series of exclusive meetings with buyers and distributors and attended events with a view to exporting to Chile, the UK's second-largest export destination in Latin America, and Argentina, which is focussed on improving trade relationships and removing barriers to increase exports and imports.

• Santander launches ‘Scam Avoidance School’, aka SAS, for over 60s (O60s) at all 806 branches across the UK
• Research¹ shows 82% of O60s want more to be done to help them avoid scammers – Age UK stats² suggest that 53 per cent of people aged 65+ have been targeted.
• Former Strictly Head Judge, Len Goodman, 73, becomes the first graduate of the Scam Avoidance School

Santander UK announces the launch of its new offer of up to £100 cashback on any of its investment products, including Santander Stocks and Shares ISA, between now and 15 June 2018. All 1|2|3 World, Select and Private customers can benefit from cashback of 0.5% (up to a maximum of £100¹) on the total amount invested with Santander during the offer period.

The Featherstone Rovers Foundation has been awarded £5,000 to fund a Street Sport project. The scheme is designed to tackle anti-social behaviour by engaging young people in sporting activity and is aimed at specific areas in Featherstone and Pontefract

Local charity, Independent Newham Users Forum – Mental Health (INUF) has received £5,000 to fund a filmmaking workshop. The sessions will introduce new software and equipment so that Newham based residents who have been previously diagnosed with a mental health condition can learn new skills.

Cheshire charity Hampers of Hope has received just under £5,000 to fund a Hope Centre, a local facility to help people in the Wilmslow and Handforth area who are facing financial difficulty. The centre will offer people support in job searches, cookery classes, as well as money management and information technology training courses

Mayday Trust has received £5,000 from Santander to fund a back to work programme for people facing barriers to entering the employment market in Northamptonshire and Oxfordshire. This includes those going through tough times such as experiencing homelessness, leaving care or coming out of prison.

A Stevenage-based dentist has realised her dreams of owning her own business after receiving £600,000 in funding from Santander Business Banking. Dr Sonal Patel, a specialist in root canal treatment, cosmetic dentistry and preventative dentistry in children, has seized the opportunity to acquire Broadwater Dental Practice (“Broadwater”) in Stevenage just four months after joining the business in December last year.

From this month Santander UK will be introducing a new cashback deal for its 123, 123 Lite, Select and Private current account customers.

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.

(FCA Complaints Data – 01 July 2017 to 31 December 2017)

In line with the FCA complaints data reporting requirements, figures published today by Santander UK reveal there were 183,758 complaints received by the bank during the second half of 2017. This is a 13.1 per cent increase on the number reported for the first half of 2017. This increase is partially driven by an uplift in PPI related complaints following the FCAs announcement and advertising campaign launched in March 2017, confirming the deadline for PPI claims to be made by 29 August 2019.

The Willoughbridge Garden Trust, a charity set up to support the Dorothy Clive Garden in Market Drayton, Shropshire, is celebrating its 60^th  anniversary and to cater to its growing business it has selected Santander as its banking partner. Santander has extensive knowledge of the charity sector and will bring experience with managing specific challenges such as seasonal cash flow for the Garden, tea rooms and gift shop which are running at full capacity. The Trust plans to recruit and extra 15 part-time staff in the summer 2018.