| In 1956, fifty-seven GE employees came together in Ludlow, Vermont
to form Heritage Family Credit Union with a total of $800 in deposits for the
first month. Today, Heritage Family Credit Union has 22,000 members and $200
million in assets.
Heritage Family
Credit Union is a member-owned not-for-profit cooperative formed for the
purpose of promoting thrift. HFCU is constantly looking for new and better ways
to provide our members with the most current, convenient and beneficial
services.
Being a full-service
credit union, Heritage Family Credit Union offers a wide variety of financial
products and services including mortgages, business services and construction
loans to meet all of our members purchasing, refinancing and home remodeling
needs.
In addition to the
Credit Union’s nine branches throughout Vermont,
located in Rutland, Fair Haven, Brandon, Bennington
and Londonderry, as well as one branch in Hooksett,
New Hampshire, the credit union also owns and
operates 16 automated teller machines in the communities it serves, and offers
access to countless other machines throughout the United States with its expansive
CO-OP network, ATMs.
As a
federally-chartered community credit union, people are eligible to join
Heritage Family Credit Union if they live, work, worship, do business, or go to school in any
of the following communities: Rutland, Addison, Bennington, Windsor or Windham
counties in Vermont, or the community of Hooksett, New Hampshire. As a member
of the credit union, each of their family members related by blood, marriage or
adoption (i.e., sister, spouse, grandmother, great aunt, stepchild, etc.) is
entitled to join the credit union and take advantage of the credit union
services.
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