Profile and History of Newcastle Building Society

Established 1861. Merger between the Grainger and Newcastle Permanent Building Societies in 1980 resulted in what today is called the Newcastle Building Society. In 2006 Universal Building Society merged with Newcastle Building Society with minimum payout of £400 to qualifying Universal members. Head Office Newcastle Building Society Portland House New Bridge Street Newcastle upon Tyne NE1 8AL Tel 0191 244 2000 Branches England 34 Scotland 1 Gibraltar 1

Newcastle Building Society Directors' Remuneration year ended 31/09/2009
Name	Salary	Bonus	Benefits	Pension and Life Contributions	Totals
C.Greaves	130,000	-	9,000	2,000	141,000
W.Lee	141,000	-	13,000	2,000	156,000
C.J.Seccombe	260,000	-	22,000	4,000	286,000
J.Westhoff	52,000		15,000	-	67,000
G.Wilkinson	64,000		21,000	-	85,000
Newcastle Non Executive Directors
9 Non Executive Directors during the year	256,000				256,000
Total					991,000

Newcastle Building Society Product Range

The Newcastle offers a range of products. For savers a variety of easy access accounts, ISAs, notice accounts and fixed rate bonds are available. On the mortgage side Newcastle offers fixed rate, base rate trackers, first time buyer, offset, standard variable and discounted mortgages. They can also supply insurance including travel insurance, home insurance from Legal & General, mortgage protection insurance and life insurance.