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Ecology Building Society: Savings reviews

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Based on 560 reviews, last reviewed 26th Dec 2024
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Latest highest rating:

5

Supporting individuals and cooperatives I am very happy to save with ecology. I have both personal savings and the housing cooperatives I am involved with have been understood and supported ... Read more Reviewed on: 26th December 2024
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Latest lowest rating:

1

Disappointment and frustration at every stage. Unfortunately this was the out and out worst experience I have ever had in opening any account of any form. Contradictory emails, links that don't wor... Read more Reviewed on: 6th December 2022
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Ecology Building Society Savings reviews (560)

Review of the Ecology Building Society, Savings:

Awful online presence

1
Outdated online offering, way to longwinded application process, living in the pst Reviewed on: 4th April 2022

A good place to put your money.

4
I've been a member of the Ecology for more than twenty years. They offer consistently decent, straightforward savings accounts and excellent customer service: you feel you genuinely are treated as an individual. Their publicity and advertising material avoids the over-heated hype and the slyly ingratiating style of so many financial institutions. And, as a saver, it's good to know that your money is helping support imaginative, green, building and renovation works across the country. Finally, it's worth noting that while the Ecology's senior management are not underpaid, they don't receive the obscenely inflated salaries awarded to the executives of most UK mutuals. I suspect that's something that a lot of the Ecology's members appreciate. Reviewed on: 8th April 2021

Friendliness and flexibility

5
The staff are so friendly when I ring the offices and arrange transactions in my account. Reviewed on: 8th April 2021

Friendly, good interest rates

4
They answer the phone very quickly and are very friendly. Accounts have decent interest rates and I like knowing my money is going to a good cause. Reviewed on: 7th April 2021

Good interest rates and service over the phone.

5
I had to withdraw some of my savings and the person I talked to was friendly and helpful Reviewed on: 7th April 2021

A very easy way to try and make a difference

5
Ecology provide a fairly unique service to UK banking customers and I am very happy with how they have treated me over the last 15+ years. I wish more banks would follow in their ethical footprints. They are very friendly and very inclusive AGM's. Ecology always provide simple ways to help make a difference in the challenge against climate change Reviewed on: 7th April 2021

Quick with decent interest and great newsletter

4
Quick with decent interest and great newsletter I have been a saver with the Ecology for over ten years, holding a savings account and more recently, taking out a cash is a. The society is small but well managed by a dedicated hands on team whom we pay normal salaries and benefits to without the city of London :bs. There is constantly more demand for savings inflow and thr board have been very careful to slow the rate of mortgage growth to reflect demand and continue paying pre crisis interest rates. Easy to deal with paper forms in post, by phone or online. I attended one AGM, a good few years ago when it was in my locale (I'm London based) and greatly enjoyed it. Reviewed on: 7th April 2021

thanks for a brilliant service

5
We like to know that our savings achieve good outcomes when we trust making a deposit Reviewed on: 7th April 2021

Reliable and sustainable

4
My savings are in safe hands at Ecology, and I love that the bank is small enough to see that it works to uphold its mission statement. Reviewed on: 7th April 2021

It is a bank that supports those who have an ecological vision to realise it

5
Always very easy to talk on the phone to someone at the bank who is helpful Reviewed on: 7th April 2021

Solid and Principled

5
I have saved with the Ecology for over 40 years which I think is testimony in it self. They have always been ahead of the curve in their ethical based principles, ways of working and the promotion of sustainable living. No purple prose in their financial product, just clear solid helpful information. I have absolute trust in the Ecology BS. Reviewed on: 7th April 2021

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