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Make your money work to end poverty

National Ethical Investment Week You can help to end poverty by simply ensuring your money is invested in companies that benefit the environment and those in poverty.

It’s National Ethical Investment week from 18 to 24 May, so it’s a great time to look at the options available.

There are easy ways to make your money work to end poverty: Ugandan money

• You can choose an ethical current current account, or a savings account, such as an Individual Savings Account (ISA), or a Child Trust Fund (CTF). *

Find out if your bank offers such accounts, and if not, ask them why they don’t.

• You can choose an ethical pension.

Ask your pension provider for your ethical investment options. Find out whether your company pension plan is ethical, and if it isn’t, ask them to invest in one that is.

More information

National Ethical Investment Week

UK Socially Responsible Investment Forum – includes a directory of ethical funds

Individual Savings Accounts (ISAs)

Child Trust Funds (CTFs)

Disclaimer: Oxfam is not providing or seeking to endorse or recommend any particular company or investment. Its intention is simply to inform in a general way about the existence of ethical options.