The Santander Foundation: Financial & Digital Empowerment Fund
Archived
Advice services
Age discrimination
Black and minority ethnic
Community development
Education and learning
Information Technology
Miscellaneous
People with disabilities
Poverty and deprivation
Refugees and asylum seekers
social enterprise
Social inclusion
Social welfare and poverty
Un/Employed
Antrim & Newtownabbey
Ards & North Down
Armagh City, Banbridge & Craigavon
Belfast City
Causeway Coast and Glens
Derry City and Strabane
England
Fermanagh and Omagh
Great Britain
Lisburn and Castlereagh
Mid and East Antrim
Mid Ulster
Newry, Mourne and Down
Northern Ireland
Scotland
Wales
Large (over £60,000)
Medium (up to £60,000)
Overview
The Financial & Digital Empowerment Fund aims to help more people in the UK become digitally and financially empowered and address issues of exclusion, social inequality, and those already at a disadvantage (e.g. through age, education, income, disability, or unemployment)
The scheme focused on supporting
- 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.
Aiming to:
- Empower people to make better decisions about money.
- Equip people with better digital and financial literacy skills to achieve new opportunities for employment and education.
- Have people feel safe when using digital tools.