Holmesdale Building Society

Holmesdale Building Society

Company type	Building Society (Mutual)
Industry	Banking Financial services
Founded	1855
Fate	Taken over by the Skipton Building Society in 2018
Headquarters	Reigate , England
Number of locations	1^[1]
Key people	Joanne Hindle (Chairman); Dean Fensome (Chief Executive); Mike McDermott (Secretary)
Products	Savings and Mortgages
Total assets	£184 million GBP (March 2018)
Members	7,443 (March 2017) ^[2]
Website	theholmesdale.co.uk

The Holmesdale Building Society was a single-branch UK building society based in Reigate, Surrey.

It ceased to exist on 1 October 2018, taken over by the much larger Skipton Building Society, and the Reigate branch became a branch of the Skipton.

It was a member of the Building Societies Association. The society had been in existence since 1855, making it one of the UK's longest established Building Societies. Over much of its history the members were mainly local people, but in later years it had members in many parts of the country.

Founded by Thomas Buckland, one of Reigate's most progressive 19th century entrepreneurs, the Holmesdale was controlled by the Buckland family until David W. Buckland retired from the post of Chief Executive in the late 1970s.

Because the Society was formed before 1874 it was an unincorporated Building Society until the 1950s when it eventually became an incorporated Building Society.

References

^ http://theholmesdale.co.uk ^{[dead link]}
^ Company Profile: Holmesdale Building Society

External links

Skipton Building Society - Holmesdale merger (Skipton Building Society website, with details about the takeover)
Holmesdale Building Society Archived 28 August 2018 at the Wayback Machine (the Holmesdale website no longer exists; this link now points to the Skipton home page)
Building Societies Association

Former building societies of the United Kingdom