RSA celebrates National Trust partnership with 50% off contents offer

Howard Lake | 13 February 2009 | News

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To mark its recent partnership with the National Trust, RSA will be offering all new home insurance customers 50% off their contents premium when they take out a combined National Trust building and contents policy. The offer will be valid until 26 April 2009 but even customers whose insurance is due for renewal beyond the cut off date can benefit.
RSA has introduced this offer to celebrate its position as sole provider of National Trust home and motor insurance policies, a partnership that is contracted to continue for the next four years.
Thanks to RSA, National Trust members are now able to buy insurance cover through a variety of channels including the Trust’s website:
www.nationaltrust.org.uk.
The insurance products are available as a single combined policy or as separate policies. Buildings cover is insured up to £450,000 and contents covered for up to £55,000. Customers can also benefit from 24 hour emergency assistance and a personal customer manager.
In addition to the 50% offer, RSA’s insurance product has been designed to support the National Trust’s dedication to protecting the environment. All customer communications will be printed on recycled paper and a donation will be made to the National Trust with every policy sold.
Additionally, members who are already environmentally conscious and drive cars with a CO2 rating lower than 120g/km will be rewarded with a discount on their motor insurance. Home insurance discounts are offered to customers with properties with solar panels.
Commenting on the offering, Andy Elkington, Partnerships Director of Affinity at RSA, said: “RSA is strongly committed to reducing its environmental impact, being the first carbon neutral insurer and a successful provider of green products such as discounts to drivers of hybrid cars. Given this, I am delighted that we can partner with an organisation such as the National Trust with which we share a common goal to protect the environment.
“By providing this 50% discount to consumers in the current financial climate, our hope is that it will encourage more to take insurance with the National Trust and, in doing so, help safeguard the nation’s historic sites, coasts and countryside.”
Lesley Lawrie, Corporate Partnership Manager for the National Trust added, “By choosing National Trust insurance, our supporters will not only be protecting their own homes and contents, but helping the Trust protect its hundreds of historic homes and buildings across England, Wales and Northern Ireland. RSA’s commitment to the environment makes the partnership with the Trust – as Europe’s largest conservation organisation – even stronger.”
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About RSA

With an almost 300 year heritage, RSA is one of the world’s leading multinational quoted insurance groups. It has the capability to write business in over 130 countries and with major operations in the UK, Scandinavia, Canada, Ireland, Asia and the Middle East and Latin America. Focusing on general insurance, it has around 22,000 employees and, in 2007, its net written premiums were £5.8bn.
Within the UK, RSA is the largest commercial lines insurer, covering the insurance and risk management needs of a significant number of FTSE 100 companies. It has a full multi-distribution capability, writing business through brokers and corporate partners, direct and online. RSA is also one of the UK’s top three personal motor and household insurers.
In December 2006 RSA became the first insurer in the UK to be carbon neutral. The company has cut its carbon footprint by half since 2000 and has offset the remainder by purchasing voluntary carbon reductions.

About the National Trust

The National Trust is Europe’s largest conservation organisation and looks after special places across England, Wales and Northern Ireland for ever, for everyone. People and places are at the heart of everything it does. Over 3.5 million members, over 52,000 volunteers, 500,000 school children, and millions of visitors, donors and supporters help the Trust look after 300 historic houses and gardens, 700 miles of coastline and 250,000 hectares of open countryside.
Jane Travis
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The National Trust
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Tel: 01793 818506
Press Office: 0844 800 4955

About Howard Lake
Howard Lake is consultant editor of UK Fundraising. He founded the site in 1994 and successfully sold it in 2022. As director of Giving X Ltd he is exploring growing giving on a massive scale. He is the founder of Fundraising Camp and co-founder of GoodJobs.