Access Bank will stage its yearly UK Polo Day at Windsor on July 4, drawing investors, founders, officials and figures from the arts together from several countries.

What began as a summer social occasion has, the bank said, matured into a venue for building relationships, trading ideas and opening business doors. This year the day leans heavily on its charitable side, with the takings earmarked for building classrooms in poorly served communities in Northern Nigeria.

The bank noted that across the north a classroom is often a luxury rather than a given, with many children kept out of school by distance, poverty or simply the absence of a building to attend. It argued that putting up a classroom block tells a community its children matter, attracts teachers and gives girls a safer reason to remain in education. Access Bank framed the schools as an investment in long term economic growth rather than a one off act of charity, reasoning that a productive economy cannot rest on an undereducated workforce. The event, it added, had become part networking forum and part showcase of African enterprise on the world stage, reflecting its wider goal of moving capital, talent and ideas across borders to places investors usually