Governance.
A strong, growing, fiercely independent building society.

Governance
Real people behind everything we do.
The Board is committed to ensuring the long term sustainability of the Society, for the good of our members, intermediaries and local communities. They do this by formulating the strategy, reviewing business performance, overseeing the identification and management of risks and ensuring the Society is adhering to laws and regulations. The Board also ensures the Society has the required controls in place.
The Board
Meet the Board.
Our Directors are independent in character and judgement, are free of any relationship or circumstance which could interfere with the exercise of their judgement and bring wide and varied commercial experience to Board deliberations, continuing to represent the interests of the Society’s members.
Board appointments are subject to ratification by a members’ vote at the Society’s AGM.









Working Together
How we work with our staff to improve the Society.
We need to ensure everyone from the top down at the Society works with integrity and ethically, and to further improve lives in Suffolk and the experience for members.
To help do this, we invite all staff to sit on dedicated committees that help to steer the future of the society and help to inform the board on vital issues such as accessibility for vulnerable members, the environment and improvement to customer experience.
We listen to feedback from staff through a regular engagement multiplier, which is a regular survey and helps us to get anonymous feedback and monitor staff engagement on our key issues. We also have a suggestion box which promotes innovative thinking and adopting new ideas.
Our values are important to us and we expect all staff to embrace them. We recognise and reward staff when they do this, and go the extra mile too.
Diversity and Inclusion
Empowering everyone to build a representative society.
We all have a responsibility to make sure the people that make up the Society represent the community, and that different perspectives are integrated into the organisation.
We have a commitment to varied recruitment practices and promotion of an inclusive working environment, alongside offering informal mentoring and development opportunities to help ensure unbiased career progression opportunities. We are constantly reviewing this activity to monitor results and see how we can continue to make improvements to diversity at Suffolk Building Society.
Gender equality
We are proud to be an official signatory of the Women in Finance Charter, where we are committed to achieving 40% female representation in senior management by November 2024. As of September 2021, we have 33% female representation in senior management, and we are working towards improving this all the time.
Modern slavery
How we’re promoting positive labour practices.
Ethical trading within supply chain relationships are key to ensure we contribute positively to modern labour practices both the UK and beyond. We have a continuous vetting process with third party suppliers and we will continue to do all we can to eradicate modern slavery and human trafficking.
Downloads and links
Results and documents.
If you require a copy of a report or accounts from a previous year, you can request a copy from the Society Secretary. Please use the contact form to get in touch or email [email protected].
Find out more.
From the blog
Latest news and information.
Our blog contains the latest goings-on and updates across the Society, so here’s where you can check out our latest corporate news.
Or, if you want to see more, take a look at all of our blogs.

International Women’s Day 2022 – the Society through time

2022 AGM: The first face-to-face AGM for two years

Voting guide for our 2022 AGM

2021 Financial Results: Society Reports Strong Performance

Advice for scam awareness

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