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Social impact

Through our social impact work, we drive meaningful change for wider society – helping people to build financial resilience, and helping us to play our part in moving fairly to a sustainable world.

We focus our social impact work through our charity partnerships with Turn2us and Cancer Research UK and, through our Changemakers Programme, we enable innovative social enterprises to scale and grow.

As a proudly customer-owned business, we focus on the long term for the benefit of our members, customers and their families – which includes delivering positive societal change.

Protecting today with Turn2us

Our partnership with UK charity Turn2us helps us to tackle financial insecurity – by providing practical support and guidance to people who are struggling financially, while working collaboratively across society to influence wider systemic change.

Our Turn2us partnership  

Preventing future health shocks with Cancer Research UK

Our partnership with Cancer Research UK aims to tackle cancer inequalities, helping protect people from facing health shocks that could prevent them saving for the future.​

Our Cancer Research UK partnership  

Our Changemakers Programme

Our Changemakers Programme develops and invests in bold ideas and sustainable solutions from ambitious social enterprises across the UK and Ireland, in collaboration with the School for Social Entrepreneurs.

Find out about the programme  

Our impact so far

Over £2.8m

donated to support our social impact work in 2024.

£1.2m

invested over three years in our award-winning Changemakers Programme, to develop innovative social enterprises.

 

Over £1.4m

donated and raised for Turn2us, enabling approximately 225,000 people to access the Turn2us helpline.

1% of our operating profits

committed to our social impact work for each of the past four years, totalling over £8m.

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Purpose

Our Purpose ‘Protecting today, investing in tomorrow. Together we are mutually responsible’ is who we are and why we exist as an organisation. It defines the impact we want to have on the world, for our customers and for society.

Discover our Purpose  

Mutuality

We’re proud to say we have over 2 million members. If there’s strength in numbers, we’ve never been stronger. We were founded to help people help themselves. Today, we’re still committed to working for you and to help make a positive change to the world you live in.

Learn about mutuality