At the prestigious MoneyAge Awards Ceremony at the Waldorf Hotel in London, we were named Building Society of the Year 2023!
In September, we launched our '2021 Here to Help Fund' of £75,000 with Heart of Bucks, allowing us to make a real difference in our community.
Excitingly, we won the Mortgage Finance Gazette Award for the Best Local Building Society and Mortgage Product Innovation.
As part of our commitment to our community, we set up our charitable foundation with the Heart of Bucks.
Our Centenary! The team celebrated this achievement with a series of local events including a barbeque for members and an open day at the Society.
Following a year of working in a temporary office and our old branch in Chalfont St Peter, the head office reopened.
A challenging year for the Society: our headquarters in Chalfont St Giles was destroyed by a fire that originated from the bakery next door.
A revolutionary new computer system was introduced.
After nearly 55 years, we were renamed the Buckinghamshire Building Society.
After focusing on the local area since the business began, we started to extend our mortgage applications to the whole county and surrounding areas.
We placed our first advert in our local newspapers: Bucks Free Press and Bucks Advertiser.
The first electric light was installed.
The first telephone was installed.
The directors and secretary employed the first member of staff for £1 per week, paid every quarter.
This year we opened our branch in Chalfont St Giles and we’ve been here ever since.
In 1907, we opened for business under the name of the ‘Chalfont & District Permanent Building Society’. We approved our first mortgage application on the 28th of May for £300!