Press releases

• Macclesfield Talking Newspaper for the Blind has received £1,000 to fund new equipment so that more blind people in Macclesfield can access the news.
• The donation was provided by the Santander Foundation which offers grants to UK registered charities for projects that help disadvantaged people in local communities.

Cotswold House has received £2,500 to improve the facilities and support it offers to homeless young women in Winsford.

Rosa's Thai Cafe ("Rosa's"), the fast-growing London-headquartered restaurant chain, is to expand its portfolio of restaurants with the opening of three new sites across central London expected in 2016. The expansion follows a £1.8 million funding deal with Santander Corporate & Commercial.

Chesterfield-based MSK Ingredients Ltd (“MSK”), one of the UK’s leading suppliers of specialist food ingredients and equipment, is to expand its product suite, invest in business process re-engineering and take on more staff following £750,000 in new funding from Santander Corporate & Commercial. The funding includes a £200,000 Growth Capital loan, which is aimed at fast-growth, ambitious UK businesses.

Chesterfield-based West Bromwich-based CBS Packaging Group, one of the UK’s leading designers and manufacturers of corrugated cardboard packaging, is set to purchase a new site in Benfleet, Essex, following £1.75 million in funding from Santander Corporate & Commercial. The move comes as the firm caters for record demand from its client base.

Heanor-based Four D Rubber Ltd, a manufacturer of latex rubber used for the medical, retail and leisure industries, is to expand into new markets and develop new products following a £3.2 million funding deal from Santander Corporate & Commercial. The firm is investing in enhanced manufacturing capabilities in the UK and Sri Lanka and accelerating its product development programme including new latex free ranges.

• Parents fined £5.6 million for unauthorised term-time holiday absences

• Value of fines increased by 267 per cent between 2012/13 and 2014/15 academic years

• Families face holiday premiums of up to 68 per cent in school holidays

• 76 per cent of Brits say they have used money saving tactics to reduce the cost of their family holiday

• Holidaymakers employ a range of money saving tactics; 1 in 10 admitting to not taking out insurance

• Three quarters of Brits use online or mobile banking to regularly check finances at home, only one quarter track spending when away

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