Bank’s ethical survey

Oct 14 2008 by Andrew Hirst, Huddersfield Daily Examiner

THE Co-operative Bank is transforming its branch in Huddersfield into an ethical polling station as part of a large-scale customer consultation exercise to update its ethical stance.

Account holders visiting the branch on Victoria Lane in Huddersfield town centre will be asked to vote on various ethical issues.

Throughout October they will have the chance to express their views by completing a questionnaire on a wide range of topical issues such as human rights, international development, ecology and social enterprise.

The questionnaire will determine whether account holders support the bank’s proposal to extend its exclusion of finance beyond the extraction and production of fossil fuels to those working in the distribution of fuels with an even higher global warming impact, such as tar sands and certain biofuels.