[5] The society currently provides financial services both directly and through a 132-strong branch network and 99 associated agencies across the UK.

High Point on Westgate in Bradford was built as the headquarters of Yorkshire Building Society in the 1970s.

[6] The Yorkshire took over the Sussex-based Haywards Heath Building Society in 1992, in an effort to develop a southern based branch presence.

In 2008, the Yorkshire merged with the Barnsley Building Society which had become a victim of the Icelandic banking crisis.

[16] On 25 July 2011, the Yorkshire announced it was buying the Egg savings and mortgage business from Citi in a deal worth £2.5 billion.

[18] The building society ceased its sponsorship in December 2004 although the YBS initials were retained in the band's name until 2008.