Curtis Banks

Festive Opening Hours 2023

A reminder of our adjusted opening hours over the Christmas period.

We would like to take the opportunity to thank our clients, partners and colleagues for your continued support throughout 2023.

Festive Opening Hours 2023

Please note that our opening hours will be changing over the Christmas period, as detailed below.

Our Ipswich team has recently been donating food to a local food bank charity, FIND (Families in Need). This fantastic cause helps those who are struggling, helping put food on tables and providing basic care packages for those who most need it. Click this link if you would like to help, donate or learn more about the wonderful work that FIND do - https://bit.ly/3OVRq58

We’re committed to investing in our people, helping staff continually develop, learn and grow. Today we saw the launch of our new training tool - Clever Nelly from Elephants Don't Forget, which will help embed training and knowledge as well as providing additional support to staff.

To celebrate the launch, our teams have been taking part in elephant themed competitions around the offices across the UK as well as enjoying some goodies, including delicious “Nelly” biscuits baked by The Kitsch Hen

To learn more about joining our team, visit our Careers page for available vacancies – https://bit.ly/3Qjqs8P

Over the past week, our offices have been ‘serving up’ some fundraising for our chosen charity, The Trussell Trust. Our team members have been enjoying some ‘ace’ local strawberries with cream to get ready for Wimbledon whilst donating to a great cause!

We love to celebrate our differences.

Our team recently received wildflower seeds - every packet growing and flourishing in different ways, just like each person in our community.

Lately we’ve all been growing our knowledge on neurodiversity through specialist training sessions as well as a dedicated neurodiversity policy providing continued support and demonstrating our commitment to inclusion.

Join our team

With a range of roles at our offices across the UK, take a look at the current vacancies available today – https://bit.ly/42APu5H

Our staff have spoken. With their help, our chosen charity The Trussell Trust has been selected for our support throughout 2023 and 2024.

Our nationwide team chose between a number of incredibly worthy welfare charities, who continue to provide help that’s needed now more than ever.

We look forward to supporting and raising funds for this amazing charity, over the next two years.

To learn more about the great work The Trussell Trust do, or how to donate, click here – https://bit.ly/3nXcUDQ

Proud to celebrate Pride.

No matter who you are, or who, or whether you love – equality is fundamental.

It’s not about us all being the same, it’s about recognising our differences, speaking out, working hard for what is right, supporting those that need it, all whilst celebrating what makes each of us unique.

We continue to stand by and support every member of our team, including those in the LGBTQ+ community, not just in Pride month, but every day of the year.

Growing a virtual forest

We’re thrilled to announce our new tree planting scheme with Ecologi

We have dedicated to planting thousands of trees across the world:
- 8,000+ trees for our staff
- 20,000+ trees for our existing commercial property portfolio

We’re also planting 30 trees for each new commercial property we acquire for our customers in 2023. This year alone we expect to plant over 38,000 trees.

This new partnership demonstrates the importance that we place on creating a sustainable future and our commitment to do our part.

You can watch our virtual forest grow here – https://bit.ly/3WJJmGI

Our forest will continue to grow over time as we continue to make a positive difference to our environment and our future.

International Women’s Day 2023

Equality is fundamental. But equity is key.

It’s not just about being treated the same, or having the same opportunities. Equality doesn’t just happen. It’s identifying that there is disparity and providing the right support and opportunities to help lead to equality. None of us are the same and we should never take that for granted.

We stand behind and celebrate all of the women in the Curtis Banks team. Not just today, but every day of the year.

We pledge to continue to push and challenge ourselves as an employer, for not only equality, but more importantly, for equity.

Over the past few years, our team across the UK have helped raise funds for our three chosen charities, Lighthouse Women's Aid, Dundee Carers Centre and Teenage Cancer Trust.

In total, an incredible £11,695.99 has been raised by staff for these amazing causes.

Lighthouse Women's Aid visited our Ipswich office recently to share how our support has helped fund some of their latest work supporting women and families in the local area.

A massive thank you to all of our staff who have helped achieve this total and continue to support amazing charitable causes across the country.

With tax year end fast approaching, please see below key deadlines for processing in 2022/23 tax year. These can also be found on the Curtis Banks homepage - http://bit.ly/3YYfIO8

If you have any questions, please get in touch with the relevant team via our contact page – http://bit.ly/3lv6JW7

It’s a given for most that soap and toilet rolls are provided in an office bathroom.

But how many people on a daily basis are caught short when on their period at work?

The answer is too many.

Period products should be seen as essential hygiene items – as fundamental as soap or toilet roll.

That’s why we’re ensuring free period products are readily available in all of our offices, so no one gets caught short at work again.

Thank you to all of our clients, partners and colleagues for your continued support in 2022, we look forward to working with you throughout 2023.

A reminder of our adjusted opening hours over the festive period.

Festive greetings from all at Curtis Banks

Throughout the festive period our Bristol office has been raising funds for Leukaemia UK in honour of our friend and colleague Brett McGee, who passed away in May this year. Brett was a huge fan of Christmas fun and is very much missed by all who knew him.

To honour his memory, the team have held a festive raffle that’s raised £625.21. Curtis Banks has also made a donation of £1,000, bringing the total raised for Leukaemia UK to £1,625.21.

If you’d like to make a donation to Leukaemia UK in Brett’s memory, or leave a message of support, please visit the fundraising page set up by Brett’s family - http://bit.ly/3hKc6PB

Please note our adjusted opening hours for the festive period.

Thank you to all of our clients, partners and colleagues for your continued support in 2022, we look forward to working with you throughout 2023.

Festive greetings from all at Curtis Banks

Over the past few days, Curtis Banks Group have been donning their sparkliest, most outlandish and darn right festive jumpers to support Save the Children UK’s .

If you are feeling generous and are able to, please donate towards this great cause by:

Texting JUMPERS to 70050 to donate £2

or clicking here - http://bit.ly/3iNC1Gr

Could you spot a pension scam?

Pension scams continue to rise and the methods used, increase in cunning and complexity.

Our website hosts a dedicated page on common warning signs and helpful links if you spot something that doesn’t look right.

Be pension scam aware - http://bit.ly/3tlhsTy

We’ve been getting our hands dirty…

This year we’ve donated over 320 hours to RSPB to help the environment in local projects across Suffolk.

43 of the Curtis Banks team in Ipswich have each pledged a working day to help create diverse habitats in the local area.

The work has been tough and a little muddy but staff have thoroughly enjoyed making a difference to the nature nearby.

Join our team where you can help make a difference too – https://bit.ly/CB-career

Our people are what makes Curtis Banks.

That’s why we’re dedicated to continual investment in our team – developing and strengthening our biggest asset.

We offer a range of tools to help support and develop staff, no matter what their role in the organisation.

For our people managers across the Curtis Banks Group, we're creating clear development pathways for each stage of their people manager journey.

Recently this includes focused training sessions with leadership experts for over 195 staff throughout October-December.

Learn more about how you can join us and progress your career with Curtis Banks – https://bit.ly/CB-career

What IF…Saving money was possible for the young?

Philippa Heal from Curtis Banks joins the Intergenerational Foundation on their latest episode of their What IF podcast series, taking a look at why savings and intergenerational fairness is so important.

Listen now –

Podcast Episode The cost of living crisis means there’s less money coming in, and more money going out. So where does this leave young people and savings? What IF saving money was possible for the young? In our first episode of Season 3, Alisa Anwar talks to IF researcher Alec Haglund, young people Rory, Cameron ...

Our people stand at the heart of what we do and we strive to continue rewarding the hard work they deliver every day.

We've launched a new enhanced benefits platform Flex+, for all of our team members across the Curtis Banks Group, helping provide greater flexibility to the benefits we offer to better suit each team member and what is best for them.

Learn more about the opportunities we have available at:

Curtis Banks – https://bit.ly/CB-career
Dunstan Thomas – https://bit.ly/DT-career
Talbot and Muir – https://bit.ly/TM-career

We’ve proudly supported with our fab-yule-ous knitwear today. In Bristol our team donated to Save the Children UK and our team in Ipswich supported their charity of 2019 St Elizabeth Hospice with week. Thank you to everyone who took part and generously donated to two fantastic causes.

Throughout December our Dundee office has been supporting and has collected a fantastic range of gifts for children across Tayside.

Our Bristol office has also given 75 presents for EVERY CHILD NEEDS Christmas and contributed to over 9,000 gifts donated in the community.

Thank you to everyone who has generously donated and supported both efforts!

This festive season our Bristol office is supporting EVERY CHILD NEEDS Christmas - a fantastic campaign which gives gifts to children in the local community who may not otherwise receive Christmas gifts. The charity works with local schools, social care teams, places of worship, children’s charities and Foodbanks. We are thrilled to have collected 40 gifts so far, a big thank you to all our staff who have already donated a gift.

This week we exhibited at the University of Suffolk Shaping Your Future Careers Fair to share the opportunities we offer at Curtis Banks for learning, development and advancement. Find out about the range of careers we offer including: Legal, IT, HR, Business Support and Pension Administration at http://bit.ly/2CoMlML
Your future, our focus.