Woodland Trust Green Credit Card
Issued by:Co-operative Bank
The last of the credit cards in the Co-operative charity credit card range, alphabetically, is the woodland trust charity credit card. This is currently the last of twelve in the range (At time of writing).
The woodland trust is a well known organisation and so if you want a green credit card then this could be the one for you! The tagline on the website is to 'take some credit for helping to protect our native woodland'.
The co-operative website page for this card, which can be found at http://www.co-operativebank.co.uk/servlet/Satellite/1193206372637,CFSweb/Page/Bank-CreditCards?WT.svl=copy, mentions that this card was named best charity credit card in the Card Awards 2009.
The return to the charity is the same as with many of the charity credit card partners that the Co-operative works with: if you've read the other entries in the section then you'll now know by heart that this means: £15 given on the account being opened, £2.50 being given when the account is used within six months, then an additional 25pence for every £100 spent.
In terms of what that tangibly means and how the money gifted by your card can make a good impact on the environment and the greenery around us, well the £15 would mean that a new native tree can be planted in a Woodland Trust wood, whilst the £2.50 means that 12 square metres of native woodland can be restored.
There is just the one credit card in the range and this is the woodland trust flat rate card, so at the time of writing at least it would appear that the platinum card options that are offered as additional charity cards for many other charities in this range of cards is not currently offered in the Woodland Trust card.
To take out the card you have to be of course 18 years old or older, and be a UK resident that has a minimum income of £10,000 a year.
Date last updated: 01 Jan 1970
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