One Year Community Bond

One Year Community Bond

The interest rate paid on the account will be paid as below:

Rate effective from 21 November 2024.

Interest is calculated each day on the money in your account and is paid at the end of the fixed term.

If your account falls below the minimum balance, the interest rate we'll pay you will reduce to 0.05% Gross p.a/AER*.

The interest rate for this account is fixed for the term and can't be changed.

This is based on no further money being paid in or taken out of the account and no change to the interest rate.

• Our Community savings accounts are for your short-, medium-, and long-term needs. They aren’t suitable for use as a current account or the day-to-day transactions of running a community group or charity.
• You must be a Charity, Not-for-Profit, voluntary or community organisation and registered in the UK
• Signatories must be 18 or over, a UK resident and provide proof of identity and address
• Provide a signed mandate or minutes authorising named signatories to open and operate the account. This must include the full names of all signatories and be signed by two key persons of the group or charity.
• Provide a copy of the organisation's constitution document. If there are no Constitution documents available, a letter on headed paper confirming the same information is acceptable.
• Provide the charity commission registration details or number (charities only) and Companies House number (if applicable).
• You'll need to provide details of the organisation's nominated bank account, along with a bank statement dated within the last 3 months. When you want to take your money out, we'll send it to this current account.
• The money paid into the account belongs to the community group or charity only.
• This account is not available to corporate bodies
• You can open your account online, in branch, by post. If you choose to open your account online, we'll need the business email address and business phone number. We'll also need a mobile and personal email address for each signatory.
• You need to pay money into your account within 30 days of opening it. If you don’t, we'll close the account.
• You'll need to keep a minimum of £500.00 in your account to get the interest rate.
• The maximum amount you can pay into this account is £5,000,000.00.
• You can manage the account online, on the mobile app, in branch, by post, by phone, on webchat.

No, you can't take money out of this account. This also means you can't close your account within the fixed term.

Before the one year term ends we'll contact you to let you know. Your account will change to the Community Maturity account, which will have a different interest rate. The account number won't change. If you want to switch to a different account, we'll tell you how to do this in the maturity pack that we'll send you.

This product is a Deposit Account. It doesn’t give you a share of Saffron Building Society or membership rights. You won’t be allowed to attend or vote at our Annual General Meetings and we won’t send you our annual Summary Financial Statement. Please click here for our full Terms and Conditions.

If the total amount of interest you earn is more than your tax-free Personal Savings Allowance, you may have to pay tax to HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC). For more information visit gov.uk.

* Interest Rate definitions: Gross is the interest rate without the tax deducted. AER stands for the Annual Equivalent Rate and illustrates what the interest rate would be if the interest was paid and added to the balance once each year.

New fraud rules from 7 October 2024 mean that with this product, you're eligibility to claim for fraud has changed. For more information please click here.