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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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]