Charity Loans

If you have a vision, a charity loan could help make it a reality. We take a flexible and responsible approach to lending. Share your ideas, and we’ll help you choose what you can afford to borrow and how long you need to repay it.

Summary

We’ve supported Charities and Businesses for over 130 years and we prioritise business lending to organisations that deliver positive social impact, so you’ll be joining a group of like-minded people.

We will prioritise our business lending to those organisations in the UK that deliver positive social impact. We can provide competitively priced loans and commercial mortgages on terms up to 25 years.

We can lend for business expansion and working capital in the following sectors:

Health and Social Care
Social Housing
Social Enterprises
Education
Faith Organisations; Churches, Religious Orders
Charities
Community, Arts, Heritage, Sports
SME sectors

Please see the important information regarding Charity Loan support in the tab named “Support during the Covid-19 pandemic”.

Charity Loans

Term loans
Lending from £250k to £2.75m
Repayment term up to 25 years with 5 year commitment
Typically up to a maximum of 65% loan to security value

Features

What we offer

Term loans
Lending from £250k to £2.75m
Repayment term up to 25 years with 5 year commitment
Typically up to a maximum of 65% loan to security value
Tailored loan pricing on a case by case basis
Simple application process and fast decisions
Early indication of our appetite to lend
Specialist not-for-profit sector experience
Tailored solution to suit your Charity’s unique requirements
You’ll have a named relationship manager to contact directly when you need to speak to someone. They’ll understand your organisation, and the challenges you face.

Early indication of our appetite to lend
Specialist not-for-profit sector experience
Tailored loan pricing on a case by case basis

Apply

1) Click on Charity Loans documents at the base of this page and read our key documents
2) Complete the Charity Loan Enquiry Form
3) We’ll assess your application
4) We’ll set up your account

Read our key documents

Reliance Bank Charity Loan (IIS) Important Information Summary

Complete the Charity Loan Enquiry Form

Complete our Charity Loan Enquiry Form.

This form is a paper application form so please print it out, complete it and send it to us at:
Reliance Bank, Faith House, 23-24 Lovat Lane, London EC3R 8EB.

We’ll assess your application

One of our Relationship Manager’s will contact you to discuss your request
A credit check on you and your charity will be required to allow Reliance Bank to assess your applications
Interest, fees, charges and due diligence costs will be agreed on an individual basis. Read our Charity banking lending tariff for more information.

We’ll set up your account

If your application is successful, we’ll set up your account and send you a welcome pack.

Charity Loans Account documents

Read our key documents
Complete our Charity Loan Enquiry Form

Important information regarding Charity Loan support

If you are struggling with your charity commitments because of COVID-19 you may want to consider if the Bank could support you with a loan repayment holiday or additional loan facility.

We are offering affected Charity customers the opportunity to contact the Commercial department via email on commercial@reliancebankltd.com and would ask you to provide us with a background as to your circumstances, together with the following:

Charity name and post code
Best contact telephone number
Some brief details on your specific circumstance

We will review each case to establish how best we can support you during these challenging times.

Reliance Bank is presently unable to be part of the Government support schemes, if we are unable to support you directly, please follow the link below for more information on the Recovery Loan Scheme (RLS) that launched on 6 April 2021. The Recovery Loan Scheme (RLS) provides financial support to businesses across the UK as they recover and grow following the coronavirus pandemic.

https://www.british-business-bank.co.uk/ourpartners/recovery-loan-schem…

Remember we are here for you. As the situation in the UK changes we’ll continue to look at what we can do to support you and will be regularly updating our website on key changes

Reliance Bank's base rate is 0.75%.

On the 16th December 2021, The Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) made the decision to increase the Bank of England (BoE) base rate from 0.10% to 0.25% (this is an increase of 0.15%).

Following the BoE base rate increase we are increasing Reliance Bank base rate by 0.10% to 0.85% from 1 March 2022.

Existing Charity Loan customers
As this is the first time rates have risen for some years we are giving existing customers who have facilities with us 60 days’ notice of this change.

So if you hold a variable rate loan with us following the BoE base rate increase we have increased Reliance Bank base rate by 0.10% to 0.85%, resulting in the interest rate applicable to your business loan facility increasing by 0.10% from 1 March 2022. Your facility agreement sets out how your interest rate changes.

The Sterling Base Rate of Reliance Bank is set by the bank from time to time taking account of the bank’s cost of funding. The rate does not automatically track the Bank of England Base Rate.