Chesham Building Society

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Chesham Building Society

Type	Building Society (Mutual)
Founded	1845
Headquarters	Chesham, England, UK
Key people	Paul Kilbride, Chief Executive
Industry	Banking and Financial Services
Products	Savings, Mortgages, Investments, Loans, Credit Cards, Insurance
Revenue	Total assets £252m
Website	www.cheshambs.co.uk

The Chesham Building Society is a building society based in the market town of Chesham in Buckinghamshire, England. It is the 41st largest in the United Kingdom based on total assets of £252 million at 30 November 2007.^[1]

Founded in 1845, it is the world's oldest (surviving) building society - many early societies were wound up after all Members had a house), and is currently over 160 years old.

They promote themselves as offering a more personal service due to their focus on the locality of their main target customers, - including the residents of Chesham, hence the original slogan was "Far better for being near to you".

The Society has branches in Market Sq Aylesbury,Little Chalfont, an agency in Tring and the branch/head office in Market Sq Chesham.

Their logo was a stylised chess piece, a pun on the name of the River Chess, the local river.