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Harpenden Building Society is proud to support Mind as our Charity of the Year for 2024. If you would like to donate to our fundraising, you can do so on this link: https://www.justgiving.com/page/hbs-charityoftheyear  You can visit Mind’s website here: https://www.mind.org.uk/  This is why we think it is important to support Mind… Around a third of adults and […]

For many, our holidays are the most important part of any year. Whether it be that dream holiday you have been saving years for, or just a short break to get away from it all, we all get excited about going away. More often than not, we end up booking our entire holiday online. Despite […]

The purpose of our Endowment Fund is to support children, health and local community projects primarily within the geographic area of Hertfordshire but also Bedfordshire. During 2023, we received a wide range of project applications for funding. We’re committed to supporting a diverse variety of applications and each submission is assessed against specific criteria. We […]

Harpenden Building Society are delighted to announce the appointment of Tracie Pearce as its new Chief Executive Officer. Tracie has over 29 years’ experience in retail banking across three major financial institutions, Nationwide Building Society, HSBC and most recently Santander, where she was the Chief Customer Officer, Homes at Santander UK. At HSBC she started […]

On Thursday 18th April we hosted a bake sale at our Head Office for our Charity of the Year, Mind. Well done to all bakers who participated, the standard was amazing! Also a big thank you to all those that have donated for such a great cause too. We managed to raise a total of […]

Friday 19th April 2024, Results of Resolutions We would like to thank all our members who participated in the 2024 AGM. You can read the Chair’s Statement and Chief Executive Review (in addition to other information on the performance of the Society during the last year) in our Society’s Annual Report & Accounts for the year […]

We are making some changes to our General Terms and Conditions… We regularly review our General Terms and conditions to ensure they remain clear, fair and up to date. As part of a recent review, here are some changes to our Terms and Conditions which come into effect on Friday 17th May 2024. Summary of […]

From 16th May 2024 we will be reducing the variable interest rate on the Online Instant Access (Issue 1) account from 4.95% to 4.81% Gross/AER*. We consider many factors when reviewing the pricing of our savings accounts which includes the monitoring of market conditions whilst ensuring we provide our customers with fair value on their […]