District of Canterbury Credit Union (DCCU) Ltd is a savings and loans credit union for residents and workers in the District of Canterbury local authority area in Kent, United Kingdom.
Founded in February 2005, it currently has around 250 members. The DCCU has branches in Canterbury, Herne Bay and Whitstable. It is regulated by the Financial Services Authority. The objectives of DCCU are to provide its members with free financial education, offer low-rate loans, and encourage thrift. Rowan Williams, the current Archbishop of Canterbury, is a member of the credit union and speaks of the merits of the credit union movement.
On the 23rd of September, 2011, District of Canterbury Credit Union merged with Kent Savers Credit Union.
Famous quotes containing the words district of, district, canterbury, credit and/or union:
“Most works of art, like most wines, ought to be consumed in the district of their fabrication.”
—Rebecca West (1892–1983)
“Most works of art, like most wines, ought to be consumed in the district of their fabrication.”
—Rebecca West (1892–1983)
“But a problem occurs about nothing. For that from which something is made is a cause of the thing made from it; and, necessarily, every cause contributes some assistance to the effect’s existence.”
—Anselm of Canterbury (1033–1109)
“Laws remain in credit not because they are just, but because they are laws. That is the mystic foundation of their authority; they have no other.”
—Michel de Montaigne (1533–1592)
“... as women become free, economic, social factors, so becomes possible the full social combination of individuals in collective industry. With such freedom, such independence, such wider union, becomes possible also a union between man and woman such as the world has long dreamed of in vain.”
—Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860–1935)