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- Association of Friendly Societies - The AFS is the representative body for UK friendly societies. The site aims to keep member societies aware of developments in the industry and to provide information about friendly societies to everyone, including information on member societies. UK friendly societies provide assurance, insurance and healthcare products to millions.
- Rechabite Friendly Society - This society offers financial services to people who are non-drinkers. More than an alcohol-free friendly society, its members share a common vision of a better way to live and a truly mutual society. In addition to product and contact details, there is information on a unique museum about the society.
- Cirencester Friendly Society Limited - Cirencester Friendly Society - A Holloway society whose "Income Assured" schem is designed to meet the needs of the self-employed, those in employment who must rely on state benefit during periods of incapacity and those who simply want to protect their savings during periods of prolonged incapacity.
- Friendly Societies Research Group - An Open University research group set up to promote research into the history and operation of friendly societies, to exchange information about them and to raise awareness of the historical and current roles of friendly societies.
- Sons of Temperance Friendly Society - The friendly society for total abstainers from alcohol. Contains details about the society's heritage, its product range and other membership information.
- Shepherds Friendly Society - The Shepherds Friendly Society is a mutual organisation, a society run and managed by its members for its members. Site describes the life products available to members and includes a rather jolly animated sheep menu!
- Druids Sheffield Friendly Society - The Druids Sheffield Friendly Society offers practical and affordable savings schemes and insurance plans to meet the needs of people from all walks of life. Site includes an on-line equiry form.
- Communications Workers Friendly Society - A Friendly Society open to members of the Communications Workers Union and their families. Includes an on-line enquiry form for its Life and Savings Policy. Also details of car, household and holiday insurance.
- Friendly Societies - Directory of friendly societies with historical features and other background information.
- Tunstall Assurance Friendly Society - Tunstall Assurance is now part of the Ancient Order of Foresters Friendly Society Limited.
Wikipedia Articles
- Friendly Societies Act 1875 - The Friendly Societies Act 1875 was an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom passed by Benjamin Disraeli's Conservative Government following the publication of the Royal Commission on Friendly Societies' Final Report.
- Female Friendly Society - Female Friendly Societies were a common form of Friendly Society in England during the nineteenth century. The societies were more common in areas of the country where larger proportions of the female population were in employment.
- Liverpool Victoria - The Liverpool Victoria Friendly Society Limited was founded in 1843. It is incorporated under the provisions of the Friendly Societies Act 1992 and is owned by its members.
- Order of Free Gardeners - The Order of Free Gardeners, today almost extinct, is a fraternal society founded in Scotland in the middle of the 17th Century and which later spread into England and Ireland. Like numerous other friendly societies of the time, its principal aim at the end of the 17th Century and during the whole of the 18th Century was the sharing of knowledge – indeed secrets – linked to the profession, as well as mutual aid.
- Burial society - Burial societies are a form of friendly society. These groups historically existed in England, and constituted for the purpose of providing by voluntary subscriptions, for insuring money to be paid on the death of a member, or for the funeral expenses of the husband, wife or child of a member, or of the widow ...