Every Stocks and Shares ISA or Impact Investment Account has a linked Cash Account. Cash Accounts are used for:

• holding the cash that you will use to make new investments, including regular monthly investments
• receiving dividend payments
• receiving proceeds from selling shares
• holding cash to cover your Annual Service Charge (which is charged quarterly)

You may have more than one Cash Account as a separate Cash Account is needed for each investment account you have. For example, you may have one Stocks and Shares ISA Cash Account, a sole Impact Investment Cash Account and a joint Impact Investment Cash Account.

You will see your Cash Account coupled next to the Stocks and Shares ISA or Impact Investment Account it is linked to, in your account ‘Overview’ in the Mobile App or Internet Banking.

If you are adding money to your Cash Account for the first time (ready to purchase more shares or to cover your Annual Service Charge), then this will need to be transferred from your nominated account. Subsequent payments into your Cash Account can come from any of your accounts. Take care to select the correct Cash Account to transfer money into as you may have more than one Cash Account as described above. You can find your Cash Account bank account number within the Mobile App or Internet Banking, use this along with our sort code 16-58-10.

Once you add money into a Stocks and Shares ISA Cash Account linked to a Triodos Stocks and Shares ISA, this will count as an ISA subscription for the current tax year.

Please note, if you have not paid into your ISA since 5 April 2022 you will need to declare your eligibility before transferring your money. For more information see Do I need to declare my ISA and how do I do this in Internet Banking?

Money held in your Cash Account can be transferred out to your nominated account, though you may want to keep some money in your Cash Account to cover the Annual Service charge (charged quarterly), to cover regular monthly investments or to have a balance available to purchase more shares on an ad hoc basis. If you do not keep enough money in your Cash Account to cover your Annual Service Charge, we will instruct to sell shares in your investments to cover the required amount. See What are the charges for investing? for more details on the Annual Service Charge.

You may wish to set up a standing order to make regular payments into your Cash Account, to ensure money is available for your quarterly Annual Service Charge and/or for any regular monthly investments you set up. For more information see How do I add money to my Cash Account?

If you set up a standing order into your account, please ensure the money will be received and cleared in your Cash Account before your monthly investment date, bearing in mind that standing orders will not be processed on a weekend or a bank holiday.

His Majesty's Revenue and Customs (HMRC) ISA rules require you to make a declaration, when applying to open an ISA. This is to confirm that you are eligible to subscribe to your ISA.

If you haven't subscribed to your ISA for a whole tax year, then you need to declare your eligibility again and confirm that you haven't paid into another ISA of the same type in the current tax year. You will not be able to make any further deposits into your ISA until a new declaration is made.

You can make your declaration in Internet Banking. Go to 'Self Service’, ‘Account Settings’, ‘ISA Declaration Management’. Here you will be able to see the status of your ISA and if you need to declare your ISA the status will show as ‘Not declared’ -  you can click on ‘Declare now’ to do this.

We will send a notification within the Triodos Mobile Banking App (in your ‘Feed’) and Internet Banking (in ‘Messages’) if you need to make a new ISA declaration.

If you have a cash ISA and don't have online access to your account, you'll need to complete and return an ISA declaration form to FREEPOST Triodos Bank. Download your Cash ISA declaration form.

Junior ISAs and Fixed Rate Cash ISAs do not need a new declaration to be made after the account is opened.

Please be aware that as a result of the UK’s withdrawal from the European Union we have reluctantly concluded that we will need to discontinue the sale of new Depository Receipts to UK residents, which includes the issue of new Depository Receipts as part of the stock dividend scheme.

To facilitate the payment of cash dividends, sales proceeds and to comply with UK regulations around the handling of money arising from your Depository Receipt holding we have opened a Depository Receipt Cash Account for each Depository Receipt holder. All cash dividends and sales proceeds from Depository Receipts will be paid into your Depository Receipt Cash Account.

You can nominate a bank account for your Depository Receipt Cash Account and all sales proceeds and cash dividends can automatically be transferred to your nominated bank account within 2 business days of receipt.

If you wish to set up or change the details of your nominated bank account, you must send us a signed written instruction. The instruction must include the details of the new nominated account (including the account name, six digit sort code and eight digit account number). For joint accounts, the instruction must be signed by both account holders. Your nominated bank account must be a sterling account in your own name(s) with either another UK  bank/building society or an existing UK Triodos Bank account that allows deposits and withdrawals.

Depository Receipts are traded in euros and dividends, if paid, are in euros. Your total return is therefore subject to the euro-sterling exchange rate. This may adversely affect the sterling value of any investment in Triodos Bank or the amount of dividends you receive.