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We are a UK specialist bank. Our lending products include mortgages for landlords and loans for business customers.
We use our specialist expertise to help our customers achieve their ambitions.
Our strategy is to build a specialist bank for our customers, which delivers sustainable growth and shareholder returns through a low risk and robust model.
A positive start to the new year.
Sustainability is central to our long-term success and it influences every aspect of our business
Sharing the progress we made in 2023 on key environmental, social and governance issues
Keep up-to-date with the latest new releases and insights from across our business.
Private Rented Sector supports over390,000 jobs across UK.
We understand how important our employees are to the business and, in recognition of this, we provide a variety of excellent reasons to work for us.
We offer a range of apprenticeship and internship positions to get people started on their career.
We aim to be an energetic and valuable contributor to the communities in which we operate. Our commitment includes active involvement in a range of community volunteering and charity partnerships.
raised for Newlife, our 2023 charity of the year
company donations to local charities and communities
employee volunteering days
Through our community volunteer scheme, every Paragon employee can take a paid day out each year to volunteer for a community project. In 2023, we achieved 469 volunteering days.
We focus our efforts on supporting projects which:
Our employee volunteer scheme has helped us to build links with a wide range of organisations.
SIFA Fireside is a specialist centre in Birmingham, which provides regular meals, clothing and medical assistance to homeless people. Volunteers help with catering and other support tasks.
Paragon employees provide skills training, work experience and mentoring for Year 12 students as part of a ten-month partnership to encourage social mobility in the banking sector.
Volunteers work with the Canal River Trust, clearing litter and overgrown vegetation to keep the canal side in tip-top condition.
We foster strong links with local schools, joining in a range of careers days and helping students with CV writing and interview schools. In Solihull, we regularly work with:
Paragon volunteers from our Motor Finance team helped at Brays School, a school which supports students with special educational needs or education health and care plans. The team cleaned up the outdoor areas, including painting, planting and tidying.
Each year, we focus our fundraising activities on a Charity of the Year, voted for by our employees. This year it's Molly Ollys Wishes, a charity supporting children with life-threatening illnesses and their families.
Employees fundraise in a variety of different ways, including:
In the 12 months to end September 2023, employees raised over £45,000 for Newlife.
In 2023, these contributions totalled £55,000+. Our main objective is to support those serving the communities in which we operate. Most recently, we helped a range of local schools, sports clubs, hospitals and hospices, as well as charities including:
In 2022, employees filled 51 hampers with food and gifts on behalf of the debt counselling charity, Christians Against Poverty. The hampers were then delivered to families in the West Midlands area dealing with debt and in need of some extra care at Christmas.
‘Once again, our hopes and expectations were exceeded. All the helpers, when they saw the hampers, were taken aback by the care and thought that had gone into the gifts chosen and the way the hampers were being presented. It quite simply took our breath away.’
Owen O’BrienDebt Centre Manager at CAP
Paragon Banking Group PLC is a specialist finance provider. We offer a range of savings and lending products in the UK through Paragon Bank PLC.