Banking hub now open [TO ALL], in town soon to be without bank

UPDATED ON 23rd APRIL, 2025
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The Leiston Banking Hub at 13 Waterloo Avenue, IP16 4HE is NOW OPEN,
Mondays to Fridays 9:00am to 5:00pm,
for most services with most major banks and several building societies.
Also, community bankers are available from some major banks each week —
visit https://www.cashaccess.co.uk/hubs/leiston-suffolk/ for fuller details/.

UPDATED ON MONDAY, 21st APRIL 2025
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"We’ll still be in the community after the branch closes 
[on Friday 2nd May at 12:00 noon], to offer further support to our customers.  
A shared banking hub will open from Wednesday 23rd April at
the Quaker Meeting House, 13 Waterloo Avenue, Leiston, IP16 4HE — 
and Barclays colleagues will be available on Thursdays and Fridays each week."

The full text (dated 8th April) of this Barclays' Community Feedback
for the Leiston branch closure can be viewed at
https://home.barclays/sustainability/esg-resource-hub/reporting-and-disclosures/uk-branch-closures/#lm

UPDATED ON THURSDAY, 20th FEBRUARY 2025
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[Leiston] is set to be left with no banks as Barclays has ... revealed it will shut its [branch], originally meant to close down last May, but Barclays kept [it] open so that Cash Access UK could open a banking hub in the town.  However, Barclays has now announced the branch will close down on Friday, May 2nd.

You can read the full text of this EADT article at
https://www.eadt.co.uk/news/24950329.barclays-announces-closing-date-leiston-branch

However, Cash Access UK announces that a temporary location is confirmed for a 'banking hub' at the Quaker Meeting House, 13 Waterloo Avenue, Leiston, IP16 4HE — expected in April, open Monday to Friday, 9:00am to 5:00pm.  Each banking hub has a counter operated by the Post Office where you can access cash services WHENEVER THE HUB IS OPEN AND WHOEVER YOU BANK WITH.  [See the earlier post below, though the various banks' scheduling arrangements will likely differ from those in Haverhill.]

You can see the latest about this new Leiston hub at
https://www.cashaccess.co.uk/hubs/leiston-suffolk/

POSTED ON 7th NOVEMBER, 2024 © EADT
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A permanent banking-hub will be set up in a Suffolk town which is soon to be left without a bank.  Cash Access UK has confirmed that [it] will open in Haverhill ... on November 12th. ... It will offer a counter service operated by the Post Office, and customers of all major banks can carry out cash transactions, ... from Monday to Friday between 9am and 5pm. ...

"Customers can visit on any day of the week for their everyday banking transactions, and if you have a specific or more complex enquiry for your bank, a community banker will be there to help on the day they’re in the hub.” ... This is for HSBC on Monday morning, NatWest on Tuesday, Lloyds on Wednesday, Santander Thursday and Barclays on Friday. ...

This will be the first permanent Banking Hub to open in Suffolk, with four more planned for Hadleigh, LEISTON, Mildenhall and Woodbridge. ...

You can read the full EADT article at
https://www.eadt.co.uk/news/24706920.banking-hub-set-chauntry-centre-haverhill.
Arrangements for a Leiston hub may of course differ from those agreed for Haverhill.

Barclays' branch in Leiston remains open until the Cash Access UK hub is available.

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