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It’s no secret that more and more of us are dealing with our money digitally these days. Gone are the times of handing banknotes over to put in your saving account or asking a real life person to cash in your cheque for you. In 2025, all that and more can be done on handy little apps.
With far fewer people going into physical banks now, they’ve been struggling to remain open. Lloyds Bank Group is shutting 136 branches this year, Natwest will say farewell to 53 more branches by June and Virgin Money is set to disappear from our high streets completely. And despite saying in January that it wasn’t planning any permanent closures, Santander is the latest casualty.
The bank has announced it will be shutting 95 branches this year. That’s a fifth of all its remaining UK sites, with 750 jobs at risk. It’s also said that it will be reducing the services or hours at at least 50 other branches in an effort to ‘better serve the changing needs of customers’.
It has promised that in place of the lost branches, it’ll provide new ‘community bankers’ who will attend local banking hubs and make weekly visits to provide face-to-face support for customers.
A spokesperson for Santander said: ‘Closing a branch is always a very difficult decision and we spend a great deal of time assessing where and when we do this and how to minimise the impact it may have on our customer.
‘As a business, we must move with customers and balance our investment across all the places where we interact with customers, to deliver the very best for them now and in the future.’
Full list of Santander branches closing in 2025
- Aberdare June 24
- Arbroath June 17
- Armagh July 1
- Blackwood June 23
- Blyth August 5
- Bognor Regis July 14
- Borehamwood July 1
- Brecon June 25
- Brixton August 11
- Caernarfon July 7
- Camborne July 7
- Canvey Island August 5
- Clacton June 16
- Cleveleys June 23
- Colne July 14
- Colwyn Bay July 24
- Crowborough July 23
- Croydon June 16
- Cumbernauld July 7
- Didsbury July 8
- Downpatrick August 6
- Dungannon June 23
- Edgware Road London, August 12
- Eltham June 23
- Exmouth July 15
- Falmouth July 21
- Farnham July 29
- Felixstowe July 16
- Finchley August 6
- Fleet June 30
- Formby August 11
- Gateshead June 16
- Glasgow St Vincent St, June 24
- Glasgow The Avenue, Newton Mearns, June 23
- Greenford June 24
- Hackney July 15
- Hawick July 24
- Herne Bay July 8
- Hertford July 29
- Holloway July 14
- Holywell August 13
- Honiton July 14
- Kidderminster June 18
- Kilburn June 17
- Kirkby July 22
- Launceston June 16
- Louth June 17
- Magherafelt June 24
- Malvern July 2
- Market Harborough July 1
- Musselburgh June 30
- New Milton July 28
- Peterhead June 16
- Plympton August 14
- Portadown June 30
- Pudsey July 28
- Rawtenstall July 15
- Ross-On-Wye July 30
- Ruislip July 7
- Rustington August 5
- Saltcoats July 21
- Seaford July 14
- Shaftesbury July 23
- Sidcup August 11
- St Austell July 8
- St Neots July 30
- Stokesley July 31
- Strabane July 23
- Surrey Quays London, November 10
- Swadlincote June 30
- Tenterden July 7
- Torquay June 17
- Tottenham July 8
- Whitley Bay August 6
- Willerby August 13
- Wimborne August 4
- Wishaw July 22
Santander branches shutting but do not have a confirmed closure date yet
- Billericay
- Dover
- Droitwich
- Dunstable
- East Grinstead
- Holyhead
- Ilkley
- Larne
- Lytham St Annes
- Maldon
- Morley
- North Walsham
- Redcar
- Saffron Walden
- Turriff
- Uckfield
- Urmston
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