Stats and Facts
Our Society at a glance. Key facts and figures to show what we’re made of.
Stats & Facts
Key facts
Yorkshire Building Society aims to deliver real help and value to its customers by providing the financial tools and support to enable them to achieve the things in life that matter to them most. The Society has been helping people to secure a place to call home and gain greater financial wellbeing since 1854.
The Society has three main office locations in Bradford, Leeds, and Peterborough.
As of the end of 2024, Yorkshire Building Society had assets of £65.5 billion and more than 3 million customers across the YBS Group, including Chelsea Building Society and Norwich & Peterborough Building Society, which are trading names of Yorkshire Building Society. Its subsidiary companies include Accord Mortgages Limited.
Yorkshire Building Society is committed to building a sustainable future for its members, colleagues and communities and the UK. As a mutual organisation owned by its members and not shareholders, Yorkshire Building Society can reinvest profits to deliver its social purpose.
Yorkshire Building Society’s charity partnership with FareShare will run until June 2026 and aims to raise £1million to support the charity’s Building Skills for the Future programme. This will help support, equip and prepare 2,500 people to enter employment. The partnership will see the creation of employability programmes in seven of the charity’s regional centres: Edinburgh, London, Bristol, Milton Keynes, Leeds, Barnsley and Cardiff.
Yorkshire Building Society is working to improve the financial education and resilience in the next generation in the UK. The Society’s free financial education programme, Money Minds, is a series of lessons designed to promote discussion and learning amongst children, young people and adults.
Between 1999 and 2024, Yorkshire Building Society Charitable Foundation donated more than £10million to local charities and good causes across the UK. The Charitable Foundation is funded through the Small Change Big Difference® scheme where members donate the pennies from the interest on their accounts just once a year to support UK charities and good causes.