sentences:  It registered as the Ipswich and Suffolk Permanent Benefit Building Society in 1886 to provide mortgages for people buying land through the FLS.The Ipswich & Suffolk Building Society originated in 1849 as part of the forty-shilling freeholders movement, a project which aimed to make home ownership an option for ordinary people, rather than just the landed elite.Initially called the Ipswich & Suffolk Freehold Land Society, its first land acquisition was the Cauldwell Hall Estate, which it divided into 282 plots, selling each to a society member for £23, following a ballot.