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This is great news! £1 Billion from the Keir Starmer Government to fund cash payments to those in urgent need of financial support. Research around the planet has demonstrated that cash payments are the best way of providing help to those enduring a financial crisis. It’s easy to see why Emma Revie at The Trussell Trust Food Bank and Lynn Perry at Barnardo's are giving this imp....

The figures in this article in the Daily Mail/ This Is Money simply highlight the lack of clear information about cash in the UK. A couple of quotes: “Nationwide revealed cash withdrawals from its ATMs hit £4.2 billion in 2025” and “ ..this decline in cash machines means that the overall amount being withdrawn is actually falling. Fresh figures from the ATM network LIN....

The 200th Banking Hub has opened, just shy of FIVE YEARS after the first one started operating. In the same period, the UK has lost around 4000 bank branches. In the five years BEFORE that first ever Banking Hub opened in 2021, another 4000 bank branches had been permanently closed. How can 200 Banking Hubs replace around 8000 bank branches? Easy answer. THEY CANNOT EVEN BEGIN TO DO SO. The ....

LINK report that in 2025, compared to 2024, ATM transaction volumes were 1,272m (down 8.3%) and withdrawal values £76,673m (down 4.2%). BUT that is NOT the total amount of cash withdrawn by the British public in 2025. FAR FROM IT. What we actually need to see in relation to UK cash withdrawals is NOT this very limited information from LINK Scheme Ltd. We need to see, in one prese....