A Mutual Building Society

We pride ourselves on having maintained our mutual status for more than 160 years.

• Being a mutual building society means that we are owned by and run for the benefit of our 500,000 Members – our savers and borrowers.
• Because we do not have any shareholder interests to satisfy, all our profits are put back into your Society, to benefit you, our Members.
• Our key priority is to keep our Members’ money safe – and our consistently good financial performance reflects this.

How are we different from banks?

• As a mutual building society, we have no shareholders expecting dividends and the Society is not listed on the stock market.
• By not having shareholders, building societies can usually run at a lower cost and offer better levels of service than our bank competitors.

Banks generally borrow from the money markets, whereas building societies may not borrow more than 50% of their funds from the wholesale markets. This means that building societies have a limited reliance on the money markets and this contributes to a safer business model.

What is a Member?

You are a Member of Principality if you are over 18, and have a Mortgage or Savings account with us.

Being a Member gives you the right to:

• Make your voice heard
• Challenge the way your Society is run
• Ask questions of the Board

If you are over 18 and have over £100 in a savings account, or over £100 owing on a mortgage account you will also have voting rights at our Annual General Meeting.

• For further details on being a Member, you can read our Principality Building Society Rules.
• For further details on what being a mutual building society means, you can read our page on A Mutual Building Society.

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