Buying shares as gifts

You can absolutely purchase shares as gifts for friends or family. Share recipients must be 18 or over, for younger individuals you will have to purchase them in an adults name.

Technically, the shares will not actually be issued to the recipient until the recipient has given their active agreement to become a member of the society. The simplest way to do this is for the giver ensure they check the tick box on the online application form to let us know that the share purchase is a gift. We have created a gifting form as a hidden page on the website that we will forward to you for the recipient to complete on Christmas day or shortly after and membership will then be triggered.

On your application form, enter the recipients name as applicant name, and provide your details (including your email address) in the rest of the fields. We have a tick box on the online form to notify us that the share purchase is a gift.

A separate share form must be completed for each gift recipient, but we can complete the repeating information.