National_Counties_Building_Society
National Counties Building Society
Financial institution in the United Kingdom
The National Counties Building Society is a building society in the UK, which has its head office in Epsom, Surrey. It is a member of the Building Societies Association. At December 2022, the Society had total assets of more than £2.4 billion.[1]
Founded as the Fourth Post Office Mutual Society in 1896, it was renamed as National Counties in 1972 and its membership no longer limited to Post Office staff. Mostly a postal and online based building society, it has one branch in Epsom.
On 14 July 2014 the society founded the Family Building Society.[2] This was the first building society to launch in the United Kingdom since the Ecology Building Society opened in 1981.[3]