Charitable giving is very much part of our culture at Ulster Bank. We do not focus on one single charity of the year, preferring to provide ongoing support to many charities and good causes through our Payroll Giving Schemes and our Community Cashback Award programme.
Payroll Giving Schemes
We currently run two payroll giving schemes to facilitate donations from our employees to their favourite causes.
Staff Charity Fund
Our employees can choose to donate from their salary each month to the Ulster Bank Staff Charity Fund. This is a registered charity managed by a voluntary employee committee. All donations are collated and then distributed by the committee on a quarterly basis. To make an application to the Ulster Bank Staff Charity Fund, please click here
Direct Payroll giving
Payroll giving, Ulster Bank’s charity scheme allowing employees to donate directly from their monthly salary to their choice of charity.
Community Cashback
Ulster Bank also wants to make a difference to the many small local community and charitable organisations that our staff support around the country.
All our staff are entitled to claim a Community Cashback Award each year for their local community organisation or charity. The award is for £250 paid directly to the charity that our people support in their spare time, either through fundraising or regular volunteering.
ATM Giving
Ulster Bank has developed a new and easy way for its customers to donate to their favourite causes - becoming the first bank to introduce a charity donation facility through its ATM network.
Customers can donate between £1 and £250 in any one transaction to one of the participating charities. Participating charities were chosen using independent research reports to identify the most commonly supported charitable causes and leading charities for each cause.
No service charges or transaction fees apply to charitable donations via ATM or online.
Give a day
Real community involvement goes further than financial support. Our Give a Day programme encourages all our people to take an extra day’s leave each year to support the communities where we live and work.
In the process, we build new relationships and gain a greater understanding of the needs of the communities in which we operate.
Our involvement helps to strengthen our communities in a variety of ways, whether by mentoring young people in start-up businesses, delivering financial education in schools, providing interview skills training to help people get back to work or raising funds to support many small voluntary and community organisations up and down the country.
If you would like to know more about Give a Day, or have volunteering opportunities you would like us to support, please contact us.