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Mortgage Rate Increases

Today, we’re increasing the interest rates on some of our mortgage accounts. We work hard to carefully balance the needs of all our Members in all we do, and raising our mortgage ...

1 December 2023 Read more
Newsletter

Members’ Newsletter Autumn 2023

Welcome to our latest update. We’re delighted to show you our fresh new look and can’t wait for you to explore it. If you’re using a phone, please click on the ...

17 October 2023 Read more
Blog

Savings Made Simple

This week is Savings week. UK Savings Week was launched in September 2022 by the Building Societies Association (BSA). This year, the focus is encouraging savings habits. The aim ...

22 September 2023 Read more
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How Sustainable Are Your Savings?

Is your savings provider ethical? Do they care about sustainability? How can you tell? If you’re a Member of Ecology Building Society, chances are you’re as passionate about ...

18 September 2023 Read more
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Earth Day: Reclaiming The Climate Conversation

This year’s Earth Day calls on all of us – people, governments, institutions, businesses – to #InvestInOurPlanet and push aside the barriers to progress that have been ...

22 April 2022 Read more
Blog

COP26: From Last Best Hope To Least Worst Outcome

Our Sustainability Lead, Alison Vipond shares her personal reflections on COP26. Hopes were high for COP26. Would world leaders finally wake up and take urgent action to put the ...

18 November 2021 Read more
Blog

Measuring What Matters

Alison Vipond, Sustainability Lead at Ecology, co-chairs the UK Residential Lending Working Group of PCAF UK to improve measurement of financed emissions from mortgaged ...

5 November 2021 Read more
Blog

Financing The Future We Want – Change Is Coming

Alison Vipond, Sustainability Lead at Ecology, on Banking on Values day, how we need to mobilise finance to support the transition to net zero. Ecology Building Society is a ...

3 November 2021 Read more
Blog

COP26 – Why We Must Have Hope

Alison Vipond, Sustainability Lead at Ecology, explains why COP26 is so important and her hopes for this critical conference. This weekend, COP26 begins. It’s been described ...

29 October 2021 Read more
Blog

A Warm Hello From Lucia

Lucia Pollan, who is studying Sustainability and Environmental Management at the University of Leeds, has joined Ecology as our Sustainability and Communications student placement ...

17 February 2021 Read more
Blog

Go Together, Go Far…..

At the Green Horizon Summit on ‘The Pivotal Role of Finance’ earlier this month, Mark Carney,  underlined the importance of the financial sector working together to ...

24 November 2020 Read more
Blog

The UK Government’s Ten-Point Plan

The Prime Minister has unveiled his ten-point plan for a green industrial revolution, seen as a crucial part of levelling up the economy and delivering the Government’s target of ...

19 November 2020 Read more