Saturday 13 April 2013

Move Your Money

Are you unhappy with your bank and the unethical way that they invest money?

Not to mention who they are lending your hard earned cash to?

You are certainly not alone as more and more people are voting with their feet and moving their money elsewhere.

Some people choose to move some of their money and others choose to move all of it, it depends what suits you best.

Luckily there are loads of websites to help you as well as advice on ethical banking.

Here are the top five ethical banks that people are moving their money into:

1.The Co-op and their Good with Money scheme:  http://www.co-operativebank.co.uk/servlet/Satellite/1193206375355,CFSweb/Page/Bank  
2. Smile internet banking: http://www.smile.co.uk/ 
3. Triodos Bank with their Know Where Your Money Goes model:   http://www.triodos.co.uk/en/personal/  
4: Charity Bank and their philosophy of social change: http://www.charitybank.org/ 
5: Ecology Building Society and their Sustainable Mortgages: http://www.ecology.co.uk/

There are other ethical building societies such as Coventry Building Society, Cumberland, Leeds, Nationwide and Norwich and Peterborough if you are lucky enough to live in these areas.

Last but not least watch Dave Fishwick on his journey to create a local bank for local people in Burnley: http://www.channel4.com/programmes/bank-of-dave/4od 

Make like Bank of Dave and check out the How to Start your Own Bank on Huffington Post:  yhttp://www.huffingtonpost.com/news/move-your-money/ 

Simon Birch writes about Ethical Banking: http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/green-living-blog/2012/feb/10/ethical-bank-account 

How to Move Your Money: http://www.moveyourmoney.org.uk/ 

Invest in the main street, not wall street with move your money project: http://www.moveyourmoneyproject.org/ 

The Move Your Money Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/MoveYourMoney