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Statement from the Chair of the Board, Will Lindsay

We announce today that Tim Bowen, our Chief Executive for the last 5 years will [...]

AGM 2023 voting results

Annual General Meeting 2023 The 144th Annual General Meeting (AGM) of the members of Penrith [...]

Carbon balancing our 2023 AGM mailing

As part of our commitment to the environment we are pleased to tell you that [...]

Making a donation to our local foodbank

Last week we were pleased to be able to send a large donation of food [...]

Cash For Kids Mission Christmas 2022

We are an official partner of CFM’s 2022 Cash For Kids Mission Christmas campaign. We [...]

Increase to Standard Variable Rate – November 2022

As of 1 November 2022, the Society’s Standard Variable Rate (SVR) increased by 1% from [...]

UK Savings Week

This week sees the inaugural UK Savings Week, a collaboration with the Building Societies Association, [...]

Mortgage applications temporarily paused

We are temporarily pausing new mortgage applications. This is a decision that we have not [...]

Change of interest rates for savers

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We had a great day as Principal Partner at Penrith Show

We are always proud to be involved in our local community and after a break [...]

We are pleased to announce improvements to our mortgage application and underwriting processes.

From this week, any new mortgage applications will benefit from a new and improved mortgage [...]

Important Notice: Thursday 21 July 2022 Opening Hours change

Important Notice: Our Branch will close for staff training at 1pm on Thursday 21 June [...]

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) and MoneyHelper are urging consumers to get help as soon as possible if they are struggling financially because of the rising cost of living.

(The following is a press release taken from the FCA website) Millions of people get [...]

We are offsetting 12,375kg of carbon with tree planting

You may remember that back in April we sent out some of our team to [...]

Celebrating The Queen’s Platinum Jubilee

This weekend sees a special extended bank holiday break. It provides an opportunity for people, [...]

A warm welcome to Helen Thistlethwaite

We are thrilled to announce Helen Thistlethwaite has joined the Society as our new Business [...]

Bright Stars 2022

We are partnering Hayton Primary School in the 2022 Bright Stars programme that challenges primary [...]

AGM 2022 voting results

Annual General Meeting 2022 The 143rd Annual General Meeting (AGM) of the members of Penrith [...]

Planting Trees With GED!

Finding ways to reduce our carbon footprint and improve our impact on the environment is [...]

Going green!

As a Society, becoming more aware of our impact on the climate and what we [...]

New Starters

Louise Watt – Technology Executive Rather than being a new starter, Louise has returned to [...]

Celebrating Success

Lucy Hodgson, Finance Assistant Supported by the Society, Lucy embarked upon her studies in September [...]

Notice of Annual General Meeting 2023

ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING 2023 Notice is hereby given that The Annual General Meeting of the [...]

Notice of Annual General Meeting 2022

ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING 2022 Notice is hereby given that The Annual General Meeting of the [...]

Change of Chair at Penrith Building Society

After nearly nine years of serving on the Board of Penrith Building Society Rob Cairns [...]

Eden Riding for the Disabled

Following a long break due to Covid-19 Eden Riding for the Disabled have re-started their [...]

Saturday Opening

We are pleased to announce that our branch will be opening the first and third [...]

Mortgage Blood Bank

Mortgage Blood Bank Penrith Building Society is proud to be taking part in a nationwide [...]

AGM 2021 voting results

Annual General Meeting 2021 The 142nd Annual General Meeting (AGM) of the members of Penrith [...]

Focusing on our mental health

This month for our Better Health at Work Award we are focusing on Mental Health. [...]

Celebrating our Silver Better Health at Work Award

The main aim of the Better Health at Work Award is to improve employee physical [...]

IMPORTANT NOTICE – Mandatory face coverings

As of Friday 24th July, it has become mandatory for people to wear a face [...]

Notification – Upcoming Introduction of Two Factor Authentication (2FA) for @PBS

Penrith Building Society is introducing additional functionality to the @PBS portal later in the year, [...]

New one way system in use in branch

If you come in to the branch you will notice that we now have a [...]

Our latest community news

We are always proud to be involved in the local community and in these times [...]

COVID-19 Protect yourself from fraud

Criminals use exceptional circumstances like the current COVID-19 situation as a chance to pose as [...]

AGM 2020 voting results

Annual General Meeting 2020 The 141st Annual General Meeting (AGM) of the members of Penrith [...]

AGM status update

Dear Members, As anticipated and communicated to you with the Annual General Meeting (AGM) documentation, [...]

Message from the Chairman regarding the AGM and COVID-19 outbreak

Dear Member COVID – 19 – Coronavirus outbreak In light of the current situation with [...]

Notice of Annual General Meeting 2020

ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING 2020 Notice is hereby given that The Annual General Meeting of the [...]

Matthew moves up!

Many of our savings members will be used to seeing Matthews smiling face as he [...]

Have you been affected by the recent flooding?

Following the terrible flooding experienced in various parts of Cumbria and elsewhere in the UK [...]

Are you making the most of your Cash ISA savings?

You might have noticed that some financial institutions have reduced their ISA interest rates recently, [...]

Cash for Kids Mission Christmas 2019

It’s official – we are a Cash for Kids Mission Christmas drop off point for [...]

@PBS – Introduction of Two Factor Authentication (2FA)

Two Factor Authentication (2FA) is a new mandatory requirement for proving the identity of online [...]

Charity Bike Challenge

On Friday the staff of PBS completed their big bike challenge raising money for Sunbeams [...]

Exciting staff news at Penrith Building Society

We have had some exciting staff news recently at Penrith Building Society. Lucy will be [...]

Coniston Bond Launch

We’re pleased to announce the launch of our new fixed rate, fixed term product, the [...]

Better Health at Work Award

Penrith Building Society has recently signed up to the Better Health at Work Award commencing [...]

Christine celebrates 40 years of working at Penrith Building Society

Christine joined our team in May 1979 and last week we celebrated 40 years of [...]

AGM 2019 voting results

Annual General Meeting 2019 The 140th Annual General Meeting (AGM) of the members of Penrith [...]

Barbara celebrates 40 years of working at Penrith Building Society

Barbara joined our team in April 1979 and this week we celebrated 40 years of [...]

How to identify and avoid common types of scams

Here at Penrith Building Society, we are passionate about helping people avoid being a victim [...]

PBS Supports Lazonby First Responders

Clare went out to visit Elaine and Jacqueline of Lazonby first responders on Friday 15 [...]

A big welcome to Ed Appleby

We are delighted to announce that we have welcomed Ed Appleby to the Penrith Building [...]

PBS staff take part in British Heart Foundation ‘dechox’ challenge

In February the British Heart Foundation are running the ‘dechox’ challenge – a chocolate detox. [...]

PBS Barracudas Swimathon

The Penrith Building Society Barracudas swim team are once again participating in a charity Swimathon [...]

Brand refresh

On 20 December 2018 we officially launched our brand refresh with a launch party in [...]

GDPR

The Society has updated its Privacy Notice in line with new data protection laws (under [...]

2018 AGM

On Wednesday April 18th we held our 139th AGM at the wonderful Sunbeams building on the [...]