Documents
From here you can download many documents that will be useful in accessing the services provided by the bank. Click on the icon to download. All documents provided here can also be obtained in person from any of our offices.
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Index: Accounts Lending: General Lending: Business Lending: Personal Direct Debit Bank of St. Helena Cheques Transfers to St. Helena Various Bank Forms Community Projects Fund Recruitment Financial Reports Other Bank Documents
Accounts
The Terms and Conditions for Accounts form an integral part of any application. Please download and read these before completing an application form. Completed application forms should be brought to one of our offices, with the necessary identification.
Current Account Form - Personal
| Download, print and complete this form if you want to open an Current Account for an individual. You can also use this form to open a joint account or an ordinary child's account. |
Current Account Form - Business
| Download, print and complete this form if you want to open an Current Account for a business. |
Current Account Form - Organisation
| Download, print and complete this form if you want to open an Current Account for an organisation (but not for a Registered Charity). |
Current Account Form - Registered Charity
| Download, print and complete this form if you want to open an Current Account for a Registered Charity (registered in St. Helena under the Charities Ordinance 2005). |
Child Savings Bond Account Form
| Download, print and complete this form if you want to open a Child Savings Bond Account. |
New Life Savings Account Form
| Download, print and complete this form if you want to open a New Life Savings Account. |
Terms and Conditions
| This document details the Terms and Conditions under which the Bank of St. Helena offers Accounts. |
Lending: General
The Terms and Conditions for Lending form an integral part of any application. Please download and read these before completing an application form.
How Your Loan Works
| Information about borrowing |
Loan Calculator
| This Microsoft Excel® worksheet helps you calculate how much a Bank of St. Helena loan will cost you. |
Terms and Conditions
| This document details the terms and conditions under which the Bank of St. Helena offers personal and business loans. |
Lending: Business
The Terms and Conditions for Lending form an integral part of any application. Please download and read these before completing an application form.
Starting your Business
| Read how you can get funds to start your new business, with a loan or overdraft from the Bank of St. Helena |
Growing your Business
| Read how you can get funds to grow your business, with a loan or overdraft from the Bank of St. Helena |
Business loan application guide
| The Bank is the first point of call for all applications for loans of a business nature. This document explains the information that is required in, and provides guidance for the creation of, an application for a business loan. |
Cash Flow Forecast Example
| This Microsoft Excel® worksheet shows you how to prepare a cashflow forecast, as you would to accompany a business loan application. It also has a template for you to adapt. |
Understanding Overdrafts
| An easy guide to Overdrafts, as a tool for business financing. |
Lending: Personal
The Terms and Conditions for Lending form an integral part of any application. Please download and read these before completing an application form.
Application Form: Personal Loan
| Download, print and complete this form if you want to apply for a Personal Loan, for any purpose other than house purchase, construction or improvement. For housing-related loans please use the Housing Loan form. Please return the completed form to the Lending Department at our Head Office in Jamestown, St. Helena (or hand it in at any office for forwarding). |
Application Form: Housing Loan
| Download, print and complete this form if you want to apply for a Housing Loan, i.e. for house purchase, construction or improvement. For other Personal Loans please use the Personal Loan form. Please return the completed form to the Lending Department at our Head Office in Jamestown, St. Helena (or hand it in at any office for forwarding). |
Direct Debit
Please note that this is currently a Pilot Scheme
Scheme Rules, for Customers
| Rules defining the operation of the Direct Debit scheme, as they apply to customers |
Scheme Rules, for Billing Organisations
| Rules defining the operation of the Direct Debit scheme, as they apply to billing organisations |
Bank of St. Helena Cheques
Terms & Condition for Cheque Issue
| Terms & Conditions for the issue and use of cheques |
Information for Drawers
| If you are issued with a cheque book, please read these notes, which provide useful guidance on the correct use of your cheques. |
Information for Acceptors
| If you are planning to accept cheques, please read these notes, which provide useful guidance on the correct handling of cheques. |
Cheque Pay-In Itemisation Form
| This form can be used to itemise cheques for banking. |
Cheque Pay-In Itemisation Form (Excel®)
| This is an electronic version of the form that can be used to itemise cheques for banking. |
Cheque Book Application Form
| Form to apply for a cheque book |
Transfers to St. Helena
Transferring money to St. Helena
| This document gives details on how to transfer money from anywhere in the world to an account held at the Bank of St. Helena. The information is valid for single and regular transfers. |
Various Bank Forms
Sterling External Payment - to UK
| Form for making a Sterling (GBP) External payment to a UK Beneficiary |
Sterling External Payment - to NON-UK
| Form for making a Sterling (GBP) External payment to a NON-UK Beneficiary |
Non-Sterling External Payment
| Form for making a Non-Sterling External payment |
UK Standing Order Payment
| Form for making regular External Payments in Sterling (GBP) to a UK Beneficiary |
Local Standing Order Payment
| Form for making regular payments to another Bank of St. Helena account |
Paying In Slips - SHP
| Form for paying in Cash in St. Helena Pounds (SHP) |
Paying In Slips - GBP
| Form for paying in Cash in UK Pounds Sterling (GBP) |
Community Projects Fund
Community Projects Fund Guide
| Guide to the "Bank of St. Helena Community Projects Fund". |
Community Projects Fund Annual Report 2006/2007
| Annual Report of the "Bank of St. Helena Community Projects Fund", for financial year 2006/2007. |
Recruitment
Please note that Bank of St. Helena does not process application forms received unsolicited, i.e. where there is no advertised vacancy.
Application Form
| Form for applying for an advertised vacancy |
Information for Applicants
| Information on employment benefits that may be of use to applicants |
Financial Reports
For security reasons signatures have been removed from these copies. Signed copies may be inspected in any office.
Accounts for Financial Year 2006/2007
| Directors' Report and Audited Financial Statements for the Financial Year 2006/2007 |
Accounts for Financial Year 2005/2006
| Directors' Report and Audited Financial Statements for the Financial Year 2005/2006 |
Accounts for Financial Year 2004/2005
| Directors' Report and Audited Financial Statements for the Financial Year 2004/2005, the bank's first year of operation |
Other Bank Documents
Advice on Acceptance of Foreign Currency by Merchants
| Advice for merchants considering accepting Foreign Currency as payment. |
Contacts sheet
| Our contacts sheet, in readily printable form |