Back in March this year we launched a ‘Virgin Money Shorts’ competition to mark our sponsorship of this year’s Sheffield Doc Fest Short Documentary Film Award. We invited members of the public to have a go at creating their very own short film with the theme ‘Curiosity’. The winning entry will be awarded £1000 and two runners up will receive £500 each. The winners will be announced …
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‘Don’t Look Down’ screenings at Virgin Money Lounges
We are delighted to announce that all of our Virgin Money Lounges are hosting exclusive preview screenings of Don’t Look Down. This exciting new film by Sundog Pictures reveals the real story behind Richard Branson’s daring adventures in the 1980s and 1990s – trying to break world records for flying in a hot air balloon. While Branson is a world …
Read More »Everyone’s Better Off at Virgin Money
You may have noticed in some of our articles we have been mentioning our company ethos of making “Everyone Better Off” or “EBO” for short. Making everyone better off is what we at Virgin Money aim to achieve – every one of us, every day in the work we do. We believe a bank should be about more than just money; …
Read More »5 Years of Stores and Lounges
It’s been 5 years since we got face to face with our customers. In late 2011 we opened our first Lounge in Edinburgh and then in Norwich, followed shortly by 75 Stores across the UK. We have also opened another four Lounges since then with three of them containing stores within. Our Lounges are places where our customers are invited, free …
Read More »Infographic: 1 Million lounge visits
Virgin Money Lounges have been designed to be as inviting as a lounge in any home and this week have clocked up one million visits in total from satisfied customers. There are six lounge locations across the UK – two in London, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Manchester and Norwich – with more on the way in 2016. We’ve illustrated some of the …
Read More »Celebrating our 1 millionth Lounge visit!
Today at Virgin Money we’re celebrating our 1 millionth lounge visit! Virgin Money Lounges have been designed to be as inviting as a lounge in any home and this week have clocked up one million visits in total from satisfied customers. There are six lounge locations across the UK – two in London, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Manchester and Norwich – with …
Read More »Innovation and Product Development
Over the course of my career so far I have worked with some very interesting people including both Fred Goodwin and Sir Richard Branson. I remember listening to Fred present at a session in Edinburgh around the year 2000 and saying that he was sure that there were no new innovations left in financial services. I remember how disappointed I …
Read More »Life in a Lounge
Following the 2011 launch of our innovative Lounges – spaces where customers can come together and relax over a complimentary coffee – we recently added another ground-breaking concept to high street banking: a Lounge with banking facilities, where customers can pop in to sort out financial matters at the same time. We spoke to Paul Adamson (pictured above fourth from …
Read More »Our London Lounge is now open
It’s exclusively for our customers to enjoy Our Lounges are part of our ambition to be a very different kind of bank – one that makes everyone better off. They’re about more than money and banking, they’re places where our customers can relax and communities can come together. Thousands of customers already enjoy free Lounge membership and we’re pleased to …
Read More »Our Glasgow Lounge is open
It’s part of our ambition to be a different kind of bank We’re pleased to announce the opening of our latest Lounge, at 145 Queen Street in Glasgow. A place for our customers to relax and for communities to come together, it’s our second new Lounge of the year following the London Lounge opening in the spring. For extra convenience, …
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