# Building Society's hospice supporter account yields first donations

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2004/07/25/building-society039s-hospice-supporter-account-yields-first-donations/
- Published: 2004-07-25T23:00:00+01:00
- Author: Howard Lake

**Darlington Building Society has paid its first annual bonus from its Hospice Supporter
savings account to four local hospices.**

The account has been set up to allow savers to invest for themselves while also 
knowing that their savings will be working for local hospices. Under the terms of
the account 1% of the average total balances held in all Hospice Supporter Accounts
throughout the year are paid to the region’s four major hospices in the form of 
a cash bonus.

Representatives of the beneficiary hospices – St Teresa’s Hospice in Darlington,
Butterwick Hospice Care in Stockton, Teesside Hospice Care Foundation in Middlesbrough
and Hartlepool and District Hospice – recently met up at Darlington Building Society’s
head office to collect their cheques of £510.51 each.

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The hospices had earlier this year received a cheque for £925 each after Darlington
Building Society donated 35p for each valid proxy vote form received prior to the
Society’s Annual General Meeting.

The account was launched in August 2003. Darlington Building Society’s chief executive
Peter Rowley said: “This account has proved very popular with savers and almost 
1,000 accounts have been opened already.”

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