The total number of credit union members in Great Britain as at end December 2007 (based on the annual supervisory returns submitted by credit unions to the FSA) was 675,789 with a breakdown as follows:
Number of credit union members Qualifying members 580,101 Non-qualifying members 11,903 Juvenile depositors1 83,785 1 Persons too young to be members or hold shares.
There are in addition 419,364 members in 180 credit unions in Northern Ireland.
The breakdown of credit union registrations in the UK by region since 1997 is as follows:
1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 Total Scotland 11 10 8 5 2 3 1 3 0 2 1 0 46 Wales 2 3 4 4 1 0 0 1 2 0 1 0 18 England1 37 34 38 31 20 28 10 12 10 8 2 1 231 Northern Ireland — 5 6 — 2 1 1 — — — — — 15 Total 50 52 56 40 25 32 12 16 12 10 4 1 310 1 East Midlands, East of England, Greater London, North East, North West, South East, South West, West Midlands, Yorkshire and the Humber.