News

• Nationwide strikes three-year deal to help the Scottish FA launch ‘Positive Play’ campaign
• Initiative seeks to encourage the positive learning in football for young people and clubs using football as a tool
• Partnership comes as 71% of Brits say disrespect in UK has grown over last two years
• Nationwide pledges to help Scottish FA push campaign across Scotland

• Nationwide strikes three-year deal to support The FA of Wales (FAW) successful Fair Play initiative
• Initiative seeks to encourage players and their clubs to show mutual respect and fair play in The FAW’s National Leagues
• Partnership comes as 71% of people in the UK say disrespect has grown over last two years

• Quarterly poll of Nationwide members reveals 14 percent drop in financial security
• Optimism about future job prospects also falls by 11 percent since crisis began
• Nationwide offers grants of £10,000-£50,000 to support local UK housing projects
• ‘I stopped eating to pay my rent’: housing support directed to those most in need

• Almost £3 million of funding recently awarded will be unrestricted for around 100 charities
• Additional £4 million of grants open for applications this summer to support charities
• Charities can self-direct funding to help those most in need in communities across the UK

• New mortgage loans offer reductions of up to 0.69% to help encourage people to greenify homes
• Rates start from as low as 1.00%, with members able to borrow between £5k and £25k
• Forms part of Society’s £1 billion pledge to reduce carbon footprint of UK homes
• Nationwide is also reducing rates on selected two, three and five-year fixed rate mortgages

• Reform of Council Tax and new Help to Green scheme needed to incentivise consumer behaviour
• New incentives must be brought in to help major housebuilders improve energy ratings
• Nationwide makes £1 billion available to drive green home improvements

• Britain’s biggest building society prepares to commence work on 239 new homes
• Society has exercised the option to purchase the brownfield site in Swindon
• Mi-space, part of Midas Group, named as main contractor of £50m Oakfield project

• Nationwide enables people to help the homeless via contactless window posters
• Innovative trial at Bath branch raises £100 a day through £3 contactless payments
• Move follows other charity forays into contactless tech as fewer people carry coins 

Nationwide Building Society today announces that it will invest in fintech for good platform Percent. Percent’s mission is to revolutionise donating money by using the latest technology to enable people to raise money for their favourite cause, via the innovative Percent App, simply by spending as they normally would.

Nationwide Building Society has joined forces with a charity to help raise £7 million needed to create a spectacular memorial for those who took part in the D-Day landings.

• Local charitable organisations have new opportunity to benefit from grants of up to £50,000 each
• Grants available to tackle housing issues in local communities
• Application process now open in six regions

Nationwide Building Society is today launching a practical partnership with homelessness charity St Mungo’s aimed at providing a consistent and compassionate response to people rough sleeping on the high street – and is urging other businesses to follow suit.