We are a market leader in the UK Education Sector, holding a 25% market share and have over a century of experience supporting education institutions from day care nurseries to specialist education providers, independent schools, Higher Education institutions, and EdTech specialists. The Group manages a portfolio exceeding £2 billion, demonstrating significant scale and financial strength.
NatWest is one of the UK's leading banking partners to the Higher Education sector, supporting approximately 350 education organisations and holding around 25% market share across UK education. We provide specialist banking, financing and strategic support to universities, colleges and education-related organisations through a dedicated national education team.
Our support extends beyond lending, through specialist capabilities across NatWest Group, we help institutions access sustainable finance solutions, treasury management, debt capital markets expertise, cyber and fraud resilience support, workplace financial wellbeing programmes and innovation funding. We also operate one of the UK's largest business accelerator programmes and work with leading universities including Oxford, Manchester, York, and Brighton to support entrepreneurship, via our Accelerator programme, research commercialisation, and spin-out growth.
NatWest is committed to improving student outcomes and social mobility. Through our investment in JS Group and the Aspire platform, universities are transforming the delivery of bursaries, scholarships and hardship funding, enabling support payments to be made within minutes rather than days and helping remove barriers for disadvantaged students.
We are also helping institutions progress their sustainability ambitions through sustainability-linked lending, green finance solutions, ESG advisory support and access to NatWest's Carbon Planner tool.
Through initiatives including NatWest Thrive, Financial Foundations, Student Living Index and Student Compass, we continue to support financial capability, employability and wellbeing across the Higher Education sector
https://jsgroup.co.uk/aspire-services/
Senior Director and National Head of Higher Education, 07581 054448
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