• Nationwide calls for innovative ideas to help tackle the Poverty Premium with new challenge
• UK’s brightest talent asked to step forward with winning ideas that will developed and scaled up
• Start-up business challenge launches alongside a £2.5m investment in the Fair By Design Fund
• Applications open 24 February; programme supported by charities and organisations across UK

On Wednesday 24 February, Nationwide is reducing rates on selected mortgages across its range by up to 0.20 percentage points.

• Covid-19 has long-term impact on importance of savings, particularly for younger people
• Brits prepare for post-lockdown ‘sunny day’ plans with holidays top of nation’s wish-list
• Five and half months is how long people believe they need to save to realise future plans
• Nearly four in ten add to savings since first lockdown, including one in four lower earners
• But despite positive savings signs, many are still struggling to build a financial buffer

• New advertising campaign looks to the future and people’s plans post-lockdown
• Aims to build on savings momentum Nationwide encouraged through Payday Saveday
• Forms part of Society’s ‘Voices’ campaign; runs across both TV and newspapers

The latest prize draw from Britain’s biggest building society topped £3.36m with 336 members winning £10,000 each after saving in the Society’s Mutual Reward Bond.

• Applications for Nationwide’s tech apprenticeships open today, to start September 
• Society to work alongside local employers to shape curriculum for autumn courses  
• Nationwide played leading role in bringing the Institute of Technology to Swindon  
• Institute one of 12 across England aimed at helping drive a STEM skills revolution  
• Apprenticeships form part of Nationwide’s commitment to close STEM skills gap