Building society in Chesterfield to be rebranded

Barnsley Building Society in Chesterfield will become Yorkshire Building Society as part of an overhaul that will see 22 branches close.

Yorkshire Building Society Group is to rebrand the Chelsea and Barnsley mutuals.

The group said the Barnsley Building Society and Chelsea Building Society names will disappear from the high street, with those branches rebranded as the Yorkshire Building Society.

The move will see six Barnsley Building Society branches close and therest rebranded by July, including the Chesterfield branch on Broad Pavement.

Seven Chelsea Building Society branches will shut their doors, with the rest rebranded by September, while nine Yorkshire branches will also

shut, reducing the overall estate to 208 from 230 by the end of the year.