CarpetBagging- The best accounts to open at each Building Society

nonolerigolo

Which Building Societies do not have a charitable assignment clause and allow you to start carpetbagging assignment free?

I have found these building society, is it correct? Are there others?

[FONT=Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif]VERNON BUILDING SOCIETY[/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif]SWANSEA BUILDING SOCIETY[/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif]CATHOLIC BUILDING SOCIETY (merged with chelsea) [/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif]KENT RELIANCE BUILDING SOCIETY[/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif]SAFFRON BUILDING SOCIETY[/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif]CAMBRIDGE BUILDING SOCIETY[/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif]CITY OF DERRY BUILDING SOCIETY[/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif]ECOLOGY BUILDING SOCIETY[/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif]HINKLEY & RUGBY BUILDING SOCIETY[/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif]SHEPSHED BUILDING SOCIETY[/FONT]

planteria

no point putting Catholic on the list as being part of Chelsea, and even Chelsea is now part of Yorkshire Building Society.

planteria

getting access to Swansea or City of Derry societies, unless you are a local, would be tough..

and, as discussed above, the whole concept of the 'windfall declaration' is questioned.

Froggitt

And KRBS has already been sold (down the river).

itch_for_a_glitch

Anyone (IMHO) expecting a payout for the [STRIKE]riff raff[/STRIKE] owners of mutuals, is batting on a very sticky wicket.

patientperson

Vernon BS .. new members 25 mile radius Southport.
Shepshed .. gone into the arms of Nottingham BS

planteria

you mean Stockport, pp
and they don't enforce that if you bowl into a branch

gwapenut

This seems to be quite a good resource for the "where are they nows"

Scroll right down
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Building_society

planteria

yes, good link gwapenut. hadn't seen the wiki page. just 45 Building Societies remain.

EarthBoy

The Building Societies Association has a list of all mergers, conversions and name changes right back to 1937:

http://www.bsa.org.uk/consumer/factsheets/mergerschrono.htm