Aspire Services
Aspire brings together in one place an easy solution to facilitate the delivery of all financial support.
It gives FUNDERS optionality over how funds are delivered, either as cash, credit, vouchers, via ATM, or PayPoint – enabling them to ensure that BENEFICIARIES receive the right support at the right time for maximum impact. Aspire gives beneficiaries agency on when and how to access and use their funds.
One connected journey from application to payment
Make it simpler to manage applications for funding and support. Aspire Applications brings applications, information, supporting evidence and communications together, helping your teams reduce administration and manage the complete journey more efficiently.
Create applications to suit different funds, programmes and beneficiary groups, connect with existing record systems and keep everything associated with an application in one place. And when an application is approved, payments can be made through Aspire in just one click.
Build applications around your needs
Create and manage applications for different funds, programmes and beneficiary groups.
Keep everything connected
Keep applicant information, communications and supporting evidence together with the relevant application in one place.
Work more efficiently
Utilising Single Sign On for both applicants and staff, integrate with existing record systems and track deadlines against your SLAs.
Move seamlessly to payment
Make one-click payments through Aspire, without the need to create and upload separate bulk payment files.
A simpler process for your teams. A smoother funding journey for your beneficiaries.
Delivered in partnership with
Aspire Cash transforms how you deliver cash based financial support to beneficiaries.
Developed with NatWest’s Payit solution, Aspire Cash unlocks the benefits of open banking, meaning:
- Hardship and emergency funding reaches beneficiaries in minutes, 24/7 – 365 days a year.
- No more collecting, verifying and storing beneficiary bank account details – ever.
- No need to collect beneficiaries’ mobile phone numbers in order to verify payments.
- Deliver a better, digital beneficiary experience
- Understand how beneficiaries are using their cash
- Achieve measurable administrative and overall time and cost savings.
"Being able to get money to students 24/7 makes the task so much easier."
Give more impact to your financial support.
With Aspire Credit you can provide funds to beneficiaries that are ring-fenced to be spent on products, resources and services that will support positive outcomes and help them make the most of any support awarded to them.
Credit can be tailored to each beneficiary’s needs and the priorities of each funder, specifically addressing beneficiaries’ resource requirements be that course resources or highly targeted issues such as food or digital poverty and setting up home.
We support each Aspire Credit scheme with:
- An engagement portal where beneficiaries can find recommended products & resources and a wealth of free information, advice and insights.
- A dedicated engagement partner to support successful management of the scheme.
- Detailed reporting and data insights into how funds are being used.
"We’ve developed a strong reputation for what we’ve been doing in digital support and have been winning awards for this refreshing approach."
Deliver support with purpose.
Whether you’re helping people with everyday essentials, responding to financial hardship, or rewarding participation, Aspire ensures support reaches the right person in the right form.
Choose from a range of voucher categories, including:
- Grocery-only: helping tackle food insecurity by restricting spend to food and essential groceries.
- Supermarket: flexible vouchers for everyday household shopping.
- Fuel: supporting travel costs through petrol and diesel vouchers.
- Utilities: helping beneficiaries pay gas & electricity bills via PayPoint vouchers.
- White goods: providing access to essential household appliances.
- Clothing: supporting school uniforms, workwear and everyday clothing needs.
- Other Retail: recognising volunteering, research participation, achievements or wellbeing initiatives with gift vouchers from leading retailers.
With instant digital delivery, Aspire Vouchers reduce administration while giving you confidence that support is used for its intended purpose. Whether you’re a university, charity or local authority, Aspire helps you deliver timely, targeted support that makes a real difference. Retail partners include Aldi, Tesco, Sainsbury’s, Asda, Morrisons, Iceland and many more.
Using our latest cardless cash solution
Aspire ATM, means you can get cash to beneficiaries in minutes. An SMS is sent to the beneficiary, which includes all the details required.
This information is entered into any of the 15,000 Cashzone ATMs to withdraw the cash in seconds using the cardless withdrawal functionality – no bank account or bank card needed.
As you don’t need to hold bank account details or card information of the beneficiary, you are also reducing your GDPR risk while delivering vital funding in a matter of minutes.
- Deliver financial support quickly via SMS, without the need for a bank account.
- Enable cash withdrawals from participating ATMs.
- Support beneficiaries who are unbanked or unable to use traditional payment methods.
- Provide a fast, convenient way to access funds.
- Reduce administration with a fully managed service.
- Available 7 days a week
- Access comprehensive reporting and dedicated support from the JS Group team.
Aspire | PayPoint provides a secure and flexible way to deliver essential funding via local PayPoint stores, either as cash or energy credit.
Cash vouchers can be redeemed for the exact value provided, rather than being restricted to rounded withdrawal values.
Energy credit vouchers can be loaded directly onto a gas card, electricity key, or smart meter card.
Aspire | PayPoint provides immediate access to support when it’s needed most.
With more than 30,000 PayPoint locations across the UK, beneficiaries can conveniently access their funds close to home. 99.3% of the UK population lives within 1 mile of a PayPoint location ensuring payments can be quickly accessed at the point of need. Funds are delivered instantly via SMS or email.
Aspire | PayPoint offers greater flexibility and control over how financial support is delivered. Where cash is needed, beneficiaries can withdraw the exact amount awarded, rather than being restricted to rounded withdrawal values, and without the need for a bank account.
"Having a payment option that doesn't rely on a bank account means we can support more beneficiaries, more effectively."
Contact us to find out how easy it is to transform the way you make payments with Aspire
- Drive Efficiencies
- Empower Beneficiaries
- Get Actionable Data
- Reduce Costs
