Welcome

The Building Societies Association is the trade association for the UK's building societies.

It represents its members to those outside the sector on a number of issues such as building society legislation, the regulation of the sector, developments in the savings market, financial inclusion and the promotion of building societies' mutual status.

The BSA also provides information to its members on these, and a wide variety of other subjects and acts as a central point for building societies to communicate with each other.

There are 59 building societies in the UK with total assets of exceeding £315 billion. About 15 million adults have building society saving accounts and over two and a half million adults are currently buying their own homes with the help of building society loans. In recent years building societies have diversified and a number now offer, among other services, current accounts, credit cards, cash machines, travel money, unsecured loans, various types of insurance and estate agency services.

www.bsa.org.uk