We are the bank for organisations and businesses that aim to create community, social or environmental benefit in a financially sustainable way. We seek to put social change at the heart of everything we do by offering specialist banking and finance to organisations that have a positive impact on their communities.
Unity was established in 1984 by the trade union movement as a different type of bank – a bank identified with and embracing the philosophy of the common good and one that would not principally be influenced by the maximisation of profit. Unity would be aligned to the trade union values of job creation and retention and making our communities across the UK better places to live.
We put social good and financial sustainability equal first and we use customer deposits to fund lending where there are clear social impacts; for example supporting job creation and retention or housing and community development.
We offer tailored products and services to suit our customers’ needs and we are committed to providing high levels of service for our customers, this is why the majority of new business comes to us by customer recommendation.
Our focus is on financial sustainability and positive social impact so if your organisation is seeking a loan that will create jobs or bring wider economic, social or environmental benefit we’d like to talk to you.
Our customers rated us No 1 for Availability of Finance in Charity Finance Banking Survey 2015 – they also voted us top in 7 other customer satisfaction categories.
