Our purpose
Financial power should belong to the person whose life it shapes.
Sometimes financial power means clarity and choice around property, lending and debt.
And sometimes it means rebuilding control after financial abuse or crisis, with support to decide what comes next.
What this can look like
She stopped being afraid of the phone ringing.
After leaving a relationship marked by financial control, she found a private rental for herself and her daughter. Then she discovered an energy debt in her name that she didn’t know existed. The bills and accounts from the relationship had been left in her name alone.
With support from a specialist financial counsellor, she had the debt waived, worked through what was left and built a budget she could rely on.
She no longer dreads the phone ringing or the mail arriving. She is planning for the future instead of just getting through the week.
This is one example of how Zahra Foundation’s specialist financial counsellors support women and non-binary folk affected by domestic and financial abuse.
Our partner
Why Zahra Foundation.
Before Hack, I worked in financial hardship and advocacy for a major bank.
A lot of that work brought me alongside financial counsellors, including counsellors from Zahra Foundation. They were working with people through some of the hardest moments of their lives, and I got to see the difference that work could make first-hand.
There was rarely a neat answer. They knew the client, what had happened and what they needed to move forward. I knew the bank from the inside. We would work together, challenge things where they needed challenging and sometimes find an answer that was not obvious at the start.
I saw those outcomes every day. Some were transformational. For the client, it could mean the chance to reset, regain some control and start planning beyond that moment.
That stayed with me.
When I later built Hack, I wanted the same thing from our work in a very different setting: to help people understand what was in front of them, work through it and leave with more clarity and control over what came next.
That is also why Zahra mattered to me. I had seen their work when the stakes were high, and I had seen what could change for someone when the right advocacy was there.
Pledge 8% is our way of backing that work now.
Pledge 8%
Your next chapter can help someone with theirs.
When a residential home loan settles through Hack and we receive an upfront lender commission, we contribute 8% of that commission to Zahra Foundation.
On a typical loan, that contribution can be enough to fund a full specialist financial counselling session for a woman or non-binary person affected by domestic or financial abuse.
There is nothing extra for you to pay. It is part of how we have chosen to build Hack.
Questions
Common questions
When a residential home loan settles through Hack and we receive an upfront lender commission, we contribute 8% of that commission to Zahra Foundation.
No. The contribution comes from the lender commission Hack already receives. There is no additional cost to you.
No. Pledge 8% contributions are not matched to a specific person or counselling session.
They support Zahra Foundation’s specialist financial counselling services for women and non-binary folk. The session example on this page shows what the contribution from a typical residential home loan can help fund.