About Salad Money

Salad Money is a for-profit social enterprise and believes that lending should be fair for everyone. They provide small, affordable loans to NHS employees.

Depending on Salad Money’s relationship with your NHS trust, they offer salary-deducted loans or loans that you repay via Direct Debit.

Comparisons on allthelenders assume your trust currently has no relationship with Salad Money, however, if your trust does have a relationship with them you may be offered a cheaper loan.

Salad Money will not make a decision on your loan based on your credit score, they use the latest technology in Open Banking to make sure the loan is affordable for you. Open Banking is a UK wide FCA regulated service that gives you more control over your banking data. Open Banking enables you to share your data securely with selected third parties such as Salad Money.

Eligibility Criteria

You must be over 18 years of age.

You must be in permanent employment with an NHS trust.

You must not be currently serving your probation or notice period.

You have not been registered as insolvent in the last 6 years.

You are not currently in any form of debt management plan including an Individual Voluntary Agreement (IVA) / and Trust deed or, within the last year, have experienced any form of bankruptcy, sequestration or DRO (Debt Relief Order).

You are not suffering from any illness or addiction which would mean that borrowing money would be likely to cause you harm. While many forms of addiction exist, alcohol, drugs, and gambling are the most common, and all of these can lead to personal, health, and financial harm (including becoming over indebted or spending too much).

Applying

All NHS employees over 18 can apply for a Salad Money loan, but you’ll need to meet their lending criteria.  Salad Money loans are not suitable for those who may already be struggling with debt.

Salad Money differs from many other lenders because their lending decision isn’t based on your credit score, they use Open Banking to take a look at your incomings and outgoings and then determine whether a loan is affordable for you or not – this is a much fairer way of assessing your suitablity for a loan.

The great thing about applying on allthelenders is that if Salad Money cannot accept your application then we will search our comprehensive panel of lenders to see if any other lenders will accept you, saving you time and helping you to get the loan that you need.

Repaying a Salad Money Loan

You can repay your Salad Money loan over 12 or 18 months and there are 2 different ways to repay your loan, depending on their relationship with your trust.

You may be able repay your loan through Salary Deduction or through Direct Debit, if Salad Money have a relationship with your trust both options are available, if they don’t have a relationship then you can only repay through Direct Debit.

Once you have repaid your Salad Money loan, subject to affordability checks you may be eligible to borrow again and you may be offered a higher amount.