Our mission is to to provide customer driven ethical and sustainable banking services to commercial organisations
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Unity Impact Grant, set up by employee-led Unity & Me programme
origin
The bank was launched by trade unions and the Co-operative bank
It originally focused on developing facilities for its trade union shareholders
profit reinvestment
Pays dividends to shareholders
Lends money to organisations that have a positive benefit for society
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policies
Unity Trust Bank only lends money to organisations that demonstrate positive impact in accordance with UN Sustainable Development Goals. It monitors its lending to areas of high deprivation. It operates an exclusion policy, as follows:
- Forced labour or child labour.
- Activities or materials deemed illegal under UK laws or regulations or international conventions and agreements, or subject to international phase-outs or bans.
- Cross-border trade in waste and waste products, unless compliant with the Basel Convention and the underlying regulations.
- Activities that result in major carbon-emissions, such as fossil fuels.
- Destruction of High Conservation Value areas.
- Radioactive materials and unbounded asbestos fibres.
- Pornography and/or prostitution.
- Racist and/or anti-democratic media.
- Weapons and munitions.
- If any of the following products form a substantial part of business activities (>5%):
- Alcoholic beverages (except beer and wine).
- Tobacco.
- Gambling, casinos and equivalent enterprises.