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Employees from Santander's Cornwall Street branch in Birmingham recently spent the day at Birmingham City Mission helping to refurbish its homeless centre for local residents.

PHASE ONE WILL ENABLE CUSTOMERS TO TALK TO THEIR SANTANDER SMARTBANK APP AND ASK ABOUT THEIR CARD SPENDING

• Secure, simple to use, helps people easily keep track of their cash
• Eliminates the need to manually search through statements to identify retailers and calculate spend 
• The technology differs from voice biometrics, which only enables access to a customer’s accounts by using their voice as a password 
• Phase two will see customers able to service their accounts using only their voice

• Santander introduces pioneering scheme to provide shared parental leave with Grandparents
• Enhances existing family friendly policies
• Basildon-based family to become first beneficiaries

Leeds-based Arc Inspirations, a leading independent bar and restaurant operator across the North, is set to open more venues after receiving £1.5 million in funding from Santander Corporate & Commercial.

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

The number of businesses in Wales that export goods and/or services grew by 32% across the three-year period between 2012 and 2014 to 4,900 firms – the largest growth of any region in Great Britain

Overall, the number of businesses in Great Britain that export goods and/or services rose by 5% to 221,300 firms, according to analysis by Santander Corporate & Commercial of the most recent ONS data¹

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

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

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

• 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

'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.

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.

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

• 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.

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

• 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.

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.

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.