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• Building Society opens new Kembrey Park site, strengthening the commitment to its hometown
• The site has been constructed with community, wellbeing and sustainability at the centre of the building’s design
• Nationwide plans to send zero waste to landfill

• Account aimed at those who’ve fallen out of savings habit or struggling to save on regular basis
• Online, instant access, regular savings account allows a balance increase of £100 per month
• New regular prize draw offers £100 to those who can demonstrate regular saving
• Amount in prize draw fund dependent on how much people save – 1% of total balance increase

• 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

• Society will open NEW Community Pop-ups in Billingshurst Community Centre and Bacup Library
  • Billingshurst every Friday, 10am-1pm from Friday 7 February
  • Bacup every Wednesday, 11am-2pm from 12 February
• Members can book appointments, get support on products and services and attend educational talks The Pop-up trial will initially run for six months

• 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 

On 17 January, Nationwide Building Society will launch a new issue of its Triple Access Online Saver/ISA.

• 71% say high streets are vital to the community and shop there twice a week
• However, ‘sad’ and ‘bleak’ are the top words associated with high streets
• 72% judge an area based on its high streets and 62% say theirs has been neglected
• Poll calls for more butchers and bakers and fewer betting and vaping shops
• Nationwide reiterates pledge to not leave any town or city until at least May 2021

23 branches across Sussex and Essex will pilot new approach to make people more comfortable

Nationwide Building Society is trialling a range of measures in branches to make the experience as comfortable and convenient as possible for members living with hidden disabilities.

• British office workers spend £1,715, including on nights out, coffees, birthdays and charity
• Feelings of unhappiness and pressure occur when requests for money do the office rounds
• A third borrow money from colleagues with more than one in ten not paying the money back
• Eight in ten office workers socialise with colleagues; more than one in ten out 4-6 days a week

Nationwide Building Society will be accepting mortgage applications from those looking to participate in the Scottish Government’s first-time buyer equity share scheme, the First Home Fund, which launches today.