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CUEB: The Customer Union for Ethical Banking
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Join 10,000 other members and supporters in the world's first independent customer union. We represent customers of the UK's Co-operative Bank, and support ethical banking and #coops.
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Which? Magazine:

"Ditch your bank if it’s a major fossil fuel financier, try one of our Eco Providers (Triodos or The Co-operative Bank), or a building society."

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Are you bankrolling the climate crisis? - Which?
As banks backtrack on environmental pledges, Which? reveals how your money could be funding climate change – and where to move it
www.which.co.uk
November 10, 2025 at 7:40 PM
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Register now for the Customer Union's annual gathering on Saturday 22 November! All welcome.

Hear from the Co-op Bank, ask them questions, get the latest on the merger, and help discuss our strategy for the year ahead.

More details and registration form here:

customerunion.coop/2025-gathering
November gathering and AGM 2025 | Customer Union for Ethical Banking
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October 12, 2025 at 2:29 PM
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💡 Did you know the Customer Union has a formal recognition agreement with The Co-operative Bank?

🤝We met with the bank to represent our members and ask their questions.

📖Read our update on the meeting in our latest newsletter:
saveourbank.coop/newsletter-2...
#union #coops #ethical #banking
Newsletter September 2025 | Customer Union for Ethical Banking
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September 21, 2025 at 6:59 AM
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The Co-op Bank has sold on its Mas5 subsidiary, which contains "mortgage prisoners". Why did the bank (& its new owner, Coventry Building Society) not help them by taking them on as normal customers? The bank has declined to comment.

More in our latest newsletter:
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Newsletter July 2025 | Customer Union for Ethical Banking
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July 27, 2025 at 9:04 AM
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Coventry Building Society is no stranger to ethical business, but tends to be less vocal about it. Now that it owns the Co-op Bank, will it follow the bank in being a noisy advocate on climate change and human rights? We hope so!

Read more in our latest newsletter: saveourbank.coop/newsletter-2...
Newsletter May/June 2025 | Customer Union for Ethical Banking
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June 10, 2025 at 6:09 PM
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It was nice of Co-op bank to email me about account security, to tell me they will never (sorry, 'NEVER') send me an email with a link, and to include a link for me to follow up for more details…

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Am I the one being especially thick here, or is the Bank?
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May 23, 2025 at 7:29 PM
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👋 ⭐ Good news for #coops! ⭐ 📢

If you want to grow, adapt or tackle challenges, our Business Support for Co‑ops programme offers 6 days of tailored expert guidance to help take you to the next level. It has already helped some 500 groups to start, develop or convert to a co‑op! (1/2)
April 17, 2025 at 8:02 AM
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The Co-op Bank had plans to join the Net Zero Banking Alliance.

Now the NZBA has retreated from its 1.5 degree target, and leading ethical bank Triodos has quit in protest.

How will the Co-op respond?

Our latest newsletter:

Https://customerunion.coop/newsletter-2025-04-26
April 27, 2025 at 9:52 AM
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After the exodus, the NZBA had two options: double down and align with the science, or reduce its ambition to keep fossil banks on board. Today members voted for the second option.
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Net-Zero Banking Alliance renews mandate with increased focus on unlocking opportunities for financing real economy decarbonization
Net-Zero Banking Alliance (NZBA) members vote overwhelmingly in favour of adopting proposed changes to the NZBA framework, concluding a strategic review that has been underway for a year. The vote...
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April 15, 2025 at 4:22 PM
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The Co-op Bank had plans to join the Net Zero Banking Alliance.

Now the NZBA has retreated from its 1.5 degree target, and leading ethical bank Triodos has quit in protest.

How will the Co-op respond?

Our latest newsletter:

Https://customerunion.coop/newsletter-2025-04-26
April 27, 2025 at 9:52 AM
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In practice of course, ethical arms companies don’t exist. But worth remembering that the Co-op Bank’s Ethical Policy on the arms trade has always focused on human rights, & never excluded defence companies supplying conventional arms to open, democratic governments.

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Labour MPs urge banks and investors to support defence firms
A group of over 100 Labour politicians say ethical investment rules are holding the sector back.
www.bbc.com
March 27, 2025 at 5:52 PM
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Now that the Co-operative Bank is back in mutual hands, under the ownership of the Coventry Building Society, we’ve retired the #SaveOurBank name, and given ourselves a new logo, web address and email.

Find us at customerunion.coop
A union of Co-op bank customers | Customer Union for Ethical Banking
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March 24, 2025 at 11:54 AM
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👏 Great news that our film—Toadwatch—received Bronze at the Smiley Charity Film Awards!

💚 A huge thanks to Proper Good Films and The Co-operative Bank for making this possible—and raising awareness for the urgent need to reverse nature’s destruction now.

🐸 www.youtube.com/watch?v=PhlM...
March 22, 2025 at 4:31 PM
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The Co-op Bank turned away seven businesses due to breaches of its ethical policy in 2024. What do you think of the bank's reporting on this? Let us know!

Read more in our latest newsletter: saveourbank.coop/newsletter-2...
A snip from the Co-op Bank's Sustainability Report 2024 describes the businesses it turned away.
March 24, 2025 at 11:12 AM
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Democracy may be in decline. But we can still vote with our money. Divest away from banks that fund fossil fuels, tobacco and weapons companies.

Some of the most ethical UK banks are:

Triodos
The Co-operative Bank
Nationwide

A full list by country can be found here:

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Find Ethical & Sustainable Banks In Your Area - Bank.Green
Bank.Green is sounding the alarm on the climate-destroying activities of banks while recommending sustainable alternatives and empowering consumer action.
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March 2, 2025 at 7:20 AM
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Our first newsletter of 2025 is out now, with news of the Co-op Bank's take-over by Coventry Building Society: what it means for customers and what it means for us as a union. TL:DR : it's great news 🚀

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February 17, 2025 at 4:16 PM
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Our first newsletter of 2025 is out now, with news of the Co-op Bank's take-over by Coventry Building Society: what it means for customers and what it means for us as a union. TL:DR : it's great news 🚀

saveourbank.coop/newsletter-2...
February 17, 2025 at 4:16 PM
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Lord Sharkey tells SFO to investigate Co-op Bank over mortgage prisoner treatment www.mortgagesolutions.co.uk/news/2025/02...
Lord Sharkey tells SFO to investigate Co-op Bank over mortgage prisoner treatment
Lord Sharkey has written to the SFO asking it to probe the treatment of mortgage prisoners by MAS5, part of the Co-operative Banking Group.
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February 8, 2025 at 2:29 PM
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We are liking the look of the first joint Co-op Bank / Coventry Building Society campaign. Exciting news indeed. As a Customer Union, we will continue to represent the interests of bank customers in the merged organisation.

www.prolificnorth.co.uk/news/new-cam...
New campaign, new future for Co-op Bank as Coventry BS completes £780m takeover - Prolific North
A new campaign entitled ‘All Together Even Better’, has launched to announce that The Co-operative Bank is now officially part of the Coventry Building Society family, following the completion of a £7...
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January 15, 2025 at 1:12 PM
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Some of the credit for saving The #Co-operative Bank must also go to the Customer Union for Ethical Banking @cuebcustomerunion.bsky.social (originally Save Our Bank and now a co-op society), which is I think the first ever Customer #Union to achieve a recognition agreement
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Coventry Building Society has taken over the Co-op Bank (United Kingdom), restoring it to mutual ownership after its near-collapse in 2013 when it was sold to private investors. The merger promises enhanced benefits from increased customer numbers and expanded mortgage and savings balances. 🏦👷‍♀️
Coventry Building Society completes takeover of the Co-op Bank
The deal returns the 152-year-old bank to mutual ownership after it was sold to private investors following its near-collapse in 2013
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January 9, 2025 at 4:51 PM
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A big welcome to BlueSky to the Customer Union for Ethical Banking, formerly known as the Save Our Bank campaign. Give it a follow, especially if you're a Co-op Bank customer, and Join The Union.
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Here it is, our first BlueSky post.

The deal for Coventry Building Society to buy The Co-operative Bank has been approved by regulators and will go through on 1st January. We're delighted. Really welcome news for us and our 10,000 members & supporters.

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Coventry Building Society to take over Co-operative Bank in 2025
The Co-op Bank will officially become a subsidiary of Coventry Building Society on 1 January.
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November 29, 2024 at 3:10 PM
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A reward for 10 years' work - when so many told us we didn't stand a chance.
November 29, 2024 at 5:16 PM
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It’s really exciting news I must say I did begin to lose faith we would ever see the bank return to mutual ownership but I’ve been proven wrong
November 29, 2024 at 7:02 PM
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We set up the #SaveOurBank campaign with two main aims: to ensure the Co-op Bank stuck to its ethics, and to work for an eventual return to cooperative ownership.

With the takeover now approved, we consider these aims achieved. Our statement:

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Text of the Customer Union's statement: We’re delighted by this news. We set up the Save Our Bank campaign in 2013 with two main aims: to ensure that the bank stuck to its ethics, and to work for an eventual return to cooperative ownership. We’re now confident that the bank has effectively been “saved” and that these aims have been achieved. As such, we will be hanging up the “Save Our Bank” name. Following the initial success of the campaign, we established what we believe is the world’s first customer union in 2016, representing more than 1,000 paid-up members who are customers of the bank, and around 10,000 supporters in total. This organisation, the Customer Union for Ethical Banking, will continue, with the primary aim of representing the interests of our members in the new merged organisation. We’re keen to ensure that the ethical policy and principles of the bank are not only maintained but strengthened, and that the new organisation builds on the ethical leadership that the Co-op Bank has established over 30 years. The combination Co-op Bank and Coventry creates a strengthened ethical banking sector in the UK, and will lead to more people and businesses being able to ensure their money is invested in line with their values. We are positive about the future for our members, and look forward to representing their interests in a constructive working relationship with the building society.
November 30, 2024 at 11:05 AM
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A short starter pack for UK Co-operators starting with the amazing 🐝 Co-op Party team go.bsky.app/Tv3wtAT
November 16, 2024 at 10:20 AM