Notices

  • Savings products - In preparation of the launch of our new and improved Online Service we have temporarily withdrawn online applications for all our savings products. You can still apply for these products by post or in branch. All savings products will be available to apply online from 12 May. We apologise for any inconvenience this may cause.

  • Savings customers: Your 2024 / 2025 Annual Interest Savings Summary are currently being processed and are due to be delivered by 30 April 2025.

  • We’ll shortly be making some changes to our Online Service to make it simpler and easier for you to use.  

    Our new Online Service will have a modern design, improved navigation and many added benefits.  

    Find out more about the changes

  • Mortgage products - On Wednesday 23 April, we made changes to our mortgage product range. These include rate adjustments across our fixed rate products, and an increase to our Owner Occupier Joint Borrower Sole Proprietor maximum LTV to up to 90% (with no additional security required) for loans up to £500,000.

  • Online Service update. Due to planned essential maintenance our Online Service will be unavailable from 6pm until 12am on Wednesday 7 May. Our Online Service will also be unavailable between 5.30pm on Friday 9 May until 9am on Monday 12 May. We apologise for any inconvenience this may cause.

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Compare our children's saving accounts

Help your children build up a pot of money for the future and teach them about the importance of saving.

Why choose Family Building Society?

We're an award-winning building society that does things differently, with over 125 years supporting savers and over 52,000 account holders. No matter what you're saving for we're here to help and have a chat if you like, with minimum jargon.

 

Junior Cash ISA (2) – you will need to be someone who has ‘parental responsibility’ of the child to open a Junior Cash ISA on their behalf, so any grandparent(s) would need to be the legal guardian of the child. Grandparents can still pay into their grandchild’s Junior Cash ISA, even if they are not the legal guardian.

Junior Saver (2) – Yes, grandparents are able to open this account as a trustee on behalf of a child of any age. Trustees must be close family members such as parents, adult siblings, parent’s siblings (aunts or uncles) or grandparents.

Yes you can. You can open an account for both our Junior Cash ISA (2) and Junior Saver (2) from birth up to age 18.

The main difference between the two accounts is that the Junior Cash ISA is a tax-free savings account and is used as a longer-term saving option. Each year, you can save from £1 up to the annual statutory Junior Cash ISA limit. No withdrawals are allowed, and the account cannot be closed until the child reaches 18 (although transfer to another Junior Cash ISA provider is allowed, after a 45 day notice period or subject to the loss of 45 days’ interest on the total amount transferred).

The Junior Saver is an easy access account, with a maximum balance of £25,000. Up to 12 withdrawals can be made without notice or access charge per year. This account is not tax-free.

Depending on how much access you would like to your children’s savings account will determine the type of account you choose.

Your savings are in safe hands, protected up to a total of £85,000 by the Financial Services Compensation Scheme. This limit is applied to the total of any deposits you have with the following: Family Building Society and National Counties Building Society. Any total deposits you hold above the limit between these brands are unlikely to be covered. 

Learn more about the FSCS. 

You can apply for both of our Junior Cash ISA (2) and Junior Saver (2) accounts by post or at our Epsom branch. 
 
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Junior Saver (2)
3.75% to 4.00%
  • Variable
 £1
  • Interest rates depend on balance
  • Open and manage by post or in branch.
 No 12 allowed annually. Yes
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Note that products are subject to additional terms and subject to change. See a product's full details to find out more.

Money guides for children

From learning what money is, to how to save and budget and the different ways of borrowing, our useful guides can help your children or grandchildren learn to handle money with confidence. 

View our guides

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Frequently asked questions

Junior Saver - Only one Junior Saver can be opened with us per child. Different trustees cannot open separate Junior Saver accounts with us for the same child.

Junior Cash ISA - A child can only hold one Junior Cash ISA at any one time. 

Yes, both the Junior Cash ISA (2) and Junior Saver (2) have variable interest rates, which may change as per the terms and conditions of the particular account. Further information can be found in ‘Section 14: Interest’ of our General Conditions for our Savings Accounts about when we may make changes to the interest rate and how this will be communicated. 

Our Junior Cash ISA is a tax-free savings account. Your child doesn’t have to pay tax on the interest they earn on their savings. 

For our Junior Cash ISA, when the child reaches 18 the account will automatically transfer into the available issue of our Market Tracker Cash ISA.

Similarly, for our Junior Saver, when the child reaches 18 the account will automatically transfer into the available issue of our Market Tracker Saver.

View further information about these childrens saving products here.