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soulsaver

Re above: slightly confusingly called  Flexible Saver Account | Leek United
Happy to be corrected, but postal or branch only - and  appears can't be managed on line? 

veryintrigued

JamesRobinson48 said:

soulsaver said:

Re above: slightly confusingly called  Flexible Saver Account | Leek United
Happy to be corrected, but postal or branch only - and  appears can't be managed on line? 

Correct:  The Leek is one of five building societies that I use which lack any kind of online access for RS. The others being Scottish BS, Nottingham BS, Loughborough BS and the Stafford Railway BS.  Although at least the Leek and Stafford have recently promised to rectify this in 2021.  

Hanley have been struggling for months too.

Bobblehat

JamesRobinson48 said:

Correct:  The Leek is one of five building societies that I use which lack any kind of online access for RS. The others being Scottish BS, Nottingham BS, Loughborough BS and the Stafford Railway BS.  Although at least the Leek and Stafford have recently promised to rectify this in 2021.  

Stafford Railway BS recently said they are testing an online facility, so hopefully we will see that in 2021.

schiff

Bobblehat said:

JamesRobinson48 said:

Correct:  The Leek is one of five building societies that I use which lack any kind of online access for RS. The others being Scottish BS, Nottingham BS, Loughborough BS and the Stafford Railway BS.  Although at least the Leek and Stafford have recently promised to rectify this in 2021.  

Stafford Railway BS recently said they are testing an online facility, so hopefully we will see that in 2021.

Waiting for HS2 to be completed probably 

Fingerbobs

JamesRobinson48 said:

soulsaver said:

Re above: slightly confusingly called  Flexible Saver Account | Leek United
Happy to be corrected, but postal or branch only - and  appears can't be managed on line? 

Correct:  The Leek is one of five building societies that I use which lack any kind of online access for RS. The others being Scottish BS, Nottingham BS, Loughborough BS and the Stafford Railway BS.  Although at least the Leek and Stafford have recently promised to rectify this in 2021.  

Scottish BS? I can access my Regular Saver with them online.

marksparc

I have this Flexible Saver account with the Leek BS and frankly wonder whether it's worth the hassle, every year they contact me giving me my "options" to withdraw the entire amount via electronic transfer or put the lot in the Easy Access Pyramid Account, obviously Leek BS do this for a reason but it must be such a hassle for them too.....why not just allow customers to keep the funds in the Flexible Saver? I guess the one saving grace is that you can pay in upto £1000 pm if you have that sort of money!

happybagger

The SK postcode, for instance, will be all of them, they probably refer to 'historic' Cheshire which is nearly all SK postcode away from the far northwest of the sector.

trickydicky14

Leek B.S proof of I.D requirements.

Can anyone please help? Just reading through the postal application form for the Leek R.S and my question is, as a new customer, do you have to send I.D with your application or do they request it from you only if they can’t check you out electronically?

And secondly, do docs have to be authenticated by some upstanding dude in a smart suit or can I just send off some photo copies?

Thanks for any help you can give.

Rich2808

The Leek restrictions have nothing on the Vernon. They have a regular saver ISA paying 1.45% - with a maximum investment of £500 a month.
Is their 25 mile definition as the crow flies or the route by road - and is it within 25 miles of Stockport town (for that account) or within 25 miles of their Stockport HQ (for their other savings products)!
A very good regular saver cash ISA - if you qualify!

https://www.thevernon.co.uk/savings/regular_saver

All accounts available within 25 mile radius of stockport

OR
https://www.thevernon.co.uk/savings/cash_isa_accounts
This account is available to UK residents only who live within a 25-mile radius from the postcode noted on the account to our Stockport head office postcode SK1 1HF.

happybagger

I remember going into a branch of Vernon once to open an account, and they referred to a map with a circle which implied that it was a radius.

It was quite a funny moment actually, because I in fact lived in Wales, clearly NOT in the 25 mile radius with geography not their strongest point!

Even funnier when I reminded them I was an existing customer so none of it mattered!