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• Chris is founder of igloo Regeneration – the UK’s leading responsible real estate business
• Acted as one of the UK’s Built Environment Climate Ambassadors for COP26 summit in Glasgow
• He will advise the Society on sustainability, climate change and its green homes ambition
• igloo currently works with the building society on its EPC-A rated development at Oakfield

• Society awarded by the Ministry of Defence for maintaining highest level of accreditation
• Scheme recognises those doing most to support defence and armed services community
• Nationwide one of the first financial services organisations to attain ‘Gold’ back in 2016

Nationwide, the world’s largest Building Society, has been named as winners of the Best Family Network award by work-life balance charity Working Families

• Society instils Work, Meet, Recruit, Live Anywhere ethos as it asks employees to ‘locate for their day’
• Employees say that remote working is leading to better outcomes for customers and colleagues
• Nationwide CEO Joe Garner: “We’ve listened and learned, and are now deciding to move forward not back”
• Society convenes major businesses to discuss Future of Work as part of report with Ipsos MORI

• Impact on wellbeing of homeworkers with children significantly worse than those without
• Despite homeworking and home-schooling pressures, Nationwide and Ipsos MORI research reveals 6 in 10 with kids at home say remote working leads to better work-life balance
• Women working remotely with children at home more likely than men to report that their mental health got worse because of Covid-19, according to the research
• Nationwide calls on UK employers to consider what flexible working should mean at a time the nation slowly eases out of lockdown as the vaccine rollout continues
• Flexible working champion Anna Whitehouse, known as ‘Mother Pukka’, launches findings alongside Nationwide

• Research from Nationwide and Ipsos MORI shows six in ten of Gen Z and half of Millennials want to have face-to-face time with colleagues
• Psychologist Dr Linda Papadopoulos says full remote working may hinder the younger generation establishing a professional identity
• But it’s all about balance: over half of Gen Z and Millennials want to work at home at least three days a week
• Half of Gen Z and four-in-ten Millennials say working from home puts pressure on their health and wellbeing

Nationwide Building Society announces the appointment of Debbie Klein as an independent Non-Executive Director of the Society.

• 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