At the Mansfield Building Society, we believe in fostering a diverse, equitable, and inclusive workplace. We are committed to creating an environment in which all our colleagues feel valued, respected, and empowered to contribute their unique perspectives and talents to the collective success of the Society.

We believe that a culture of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) not only benefits our Society, but supports wellbeing and enables our colleagues to perform at their best with a sense of belonging. As a Company, we have a number of core beliefs around DEI:

DEI is integral to everything we do in our business and society and is a continuous process. Everyone will thrive in an inclusive culture. Diversity, equity, and inclusion is for all. Psychological safety is a fundamental condition for DEI to prosper. Role modelling our own awareness and vulnerability has the power to maximise our potential and those around us. We are all accountable for the DEI strategy.

In 2025 we have become a proud signatory of the Women in Finance Charter, we believe its important to have gender balance within the Senior Leadership Team, we currently have 41% female representation within the Senior Leadership Team (Board and Executive Committee) with a target of 50% by 2030.

Our Nominations Committee annually reviews and assesses our Board effectiveness, structure, size and composition (including the skills, knowledge, experience and diversity mix) together with ensuring that effective succession plans are maintained for the Board, and Executive Committee.

Paul Wheeler, our CEO is the Accountable Executive and is committed to making a genuine difference. We want to be able to do the best by our people creating opportunities where we can, but we recognise the challenges and barriers we face, our biggest gap from a gender perspective is at the Senior Leadership level so it’s important we prepare our female employees to be ready to take the opportunities as they arise. Setting colleagues up for success is key and this is why our strategy is heavily focused on development to support and allow our female colleagues the chance of progression.

We are committed to delivering on our Inclusion Strategy.