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Name: Savings
Rating: 4.55 (1255 reviews)

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4.55

Based on 1,255 reviews, last reviewed 12th Mar 2026

13% decrease in 5 star reviews

in the past 90 days

600% increase in 1 star reviews

in the past 90 days

77%

11%

Latest highest rating:

5

Excellent customer service I use Family Building Society for my savings as they have excellent customer service, you can ring and speak to a human! what's more the humans are po... Read more Reviewed on: 12th March 2026

Latest lowest rating:

1

This is the worst online bank I have ever used. This is the worst online bank I have ever used. In almost a year, I have only been able to log in successfully once. Next time I go in I need to rereg... Read more Reviewed on: 23rd February 2026

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Family Building Society Savings reviews (1255)

Review of the Family Building Society, Savings:

Service at Epsom office

Good front office service from Alexis Osborne Reviewed on: 2nd May 2025

Reply from Family Building Society Thank you for leaving us this review, it's great to hear of your experience with us! Response date: 2nd May 2025

Savings

My wife tried to open a savings account with payment from her Direct Debit cards (in branch), but that payment method was refused. Why? Paying by cheque seems to her to be rather out dated. Reviewed on: 19th August 2018

No fuss ISAs

I was fed up with banks changing the ISA rate after the initial year and giving derisory rates. It was such a fiddle to change the provider. The Family Building Society market tracker ISA gives a reasonable rate and saves constantly swapping around. You could get a slightly better rate if you are inclined to shop around, but there's not much in it. ( Disclosure: I also do some work for the FBS.) Reviewed on: 20th December 2017

Windfall

Just like premium bonds with interest. Reviewed on: 16th November 2017

Disappointing. Very low number of winning bonds.

They claim to have 13 winning draws from the 10,000 bonds each month (1 x £50.000, 2 x£10,000 and 10 x£1000; but in 2015 there were only 12 winners in total for the whole year and in 2016 just 22 winners for the total year, including 3 in a January bonus draw. I wrote to ask how many bonds were actually purchased, but they refused to disclose this. Reviewed on: 12th February 2017

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