The Santander Foundation Digital and Financial Empowerment Fund focuses on supporting projects that will help people to become digitally and financially empowered. The programme has the 
ambition to support UK charities to give people the digital confidence, knowledge, and skills to enable them to make better, more informed decisions about money and have access to financial services.
There are millions of people in our society that are already at a disadvantage – through age, education, income, disability, or unemployment. Without the right support for them, the social inequality gap will only widen.
Many charitable and community interest organisations work with such groups; with people that feel the impacts of financial or digital exclusion the most.
The fund wants to reach lone parents, single pensioners, migrants and refugees, those with long term illnesses and disabilities, those struggling to find sustained employment and households headed by students or part-time workers. These are among the groups most commonly excluded from financial services.
People with low or unstable incomes, or those who have experienced a significant life shock, are particularly affected by financial exclusion. The pandemic will only have made this situation worse, as more and more basic services have moved to the web. The fund wants to help charities build their capacity to help people to become digitally and financially empowered.
The aim is to award 12 grants of up to a total of £150,000 per organisation over a three-year period.
Apply to the Santander Foundation Digital and Financial Empowerment Fund
Deadline: 23 September 2022