Hub concerns

I would very much like to hear from anyone in and around the Knutsford area, who believes, like me, that it is completely unacceptable that the town no longer has a bank branch in this busy, popular town centre. There is, of course, both a Post Office and a Nationwide branch, but neither are “banks” in the full sense of the word. After some research and tracking-down, I have identified the organisation, and the key people within it, where the decisions are made about establishing what are becoming known as “banking hubs”. As I understand it, these hubs take a number of forms, but, crucially, when brought in to a town, they restore what has been lost in so many places: local access to a ‘human’ representative of our main banks. It is clear to me that many of us, whilst having made many of the adjustments to the vast changes to modern banking, still, on occasions, would be greatly reassured and helped, if we knew that it was still possible to go to speak, face-to-face, with a banker. That, I suspect, is even more so, where people are less confident with IT, maybe a bit vulnerable, or if they are quite elderly. Please contact me through the good offices of the Knutsford Guardian, if you share my concern, and wish to join this emerging campaign.

Published today in the Knutsford Guardian