Edward Turner, age 63, is a chartered accountant and has been a Board member since 1998. He is Chairman of the Society and is also a member of the Society’s Assets & Liabilities and Audit & Compliance Committees.

Ted was a Partner with KPMG for 21 years, and often undertook work within the building society sector as well as in other financial services businesses. He is a Non-Executive Chairman of a private property investment company, and President and Trustee of the North Staffs Medical Institute, a charity which provides facilities for post graduate education for the medical profession locally. Ted also provided consulting advice to a professional firm in North Staffordshire and following his retirement from the profession he worked as a finance director in industry for nearly six years.