What's New at GTKYCU?

We were happy to help out Central Kentucky Riding for Hope with our raffle at Fayette Fest this year.

CKRH is dedicated to enriching the community by improving the quality of life and the health of children and adults with special physical, cognitive, emotional and social needs through therapeutic activities with horses.

Congratulations to Adrienne Collins on winning the raffle and the YETI Roadie cooler!

We’re excited to announce that we are returning to Fayette Fest this year and will have a booth at the event! Come by and check out our booth, where we’ll be raffling off a YETI Roadie 20 Cooler to benefit Central Kentucky Riding for Hope! We’ll also have some fun games and activities for children, so make sure to stop by!

Fayette Fest will be held on Sunday, September 15th from 12 - 6 PM at the Red Mile Track.

Please see raffle rules for more information.

This week, some of our executive staff had an exciting opportunity to attend a luncheon with Andy Barr to discuss upcoming legislation that impacts our members with other Credit Union executives. Dan, our VP of Finance, and Debbie, our CEO, had a great time engaging in the conversation and hearing Andy Barr voice his support for Kentucky Credit Unions. Thank you Andy Barr for the opportunity to discuss the future of Credit Unions!

This past weekend, some of our staff made their way into downtown Versailles to interact with our community and spread the word about our Free Kasasa Checking Accounts. While we were there, we also raffled off a YETI Hopper Two 30 Soft Cooler to benefit the Woodford Humane Society!

Thanks to everyone who entered our raffle, we were able to donate $300 to the Woodford Humane Society to help them care for the animals in need of homes. And congratulations to our lucky raffle winner, Lisa, who will be taking home a YETI Hopper Two 30 Cooler!

We’re so incredibly appreciative of everything the Woodford Humane Society does every day. We couldn’t be more excited to help!

We’ll be back out in our community again soon, so make sure to keep an eye out for updates on our Facebook and Twitter!

We’re back from another great year at the Twilight Festival in downtown Versailles! The event seems to be growing more and more every year, which we are so excited to see! Thank you to everyone who came out, and to those who entered to win our YETI Hopper Two 30 soft cooler and fleece blanket. All of the money collected for the raffle will be going straight to the Woodford Humane Society to help them case for the animals in need of homes.

We’ll be back out in our community again soon, so make sure to keep an eye out for updates on our Facebook and Twitter!

Some of the GTKY Team got out this past weekend and interacted with our community at the Midsummer Night’s Run in downtown Lexington to benefit the Saint Joseph Hospital Foundation! We were very excited to be part of this fun activity, walk the 5K, and grow as a team.

We’ll be out in the community a lot more this month and next, so make sure to keep up with your Credit Union and see where we are next! Follow us on Facebook and Twitter for up to date information.

We have more winners to announce!

Congratulations to Ronald and Deborah Winbun for entering our drawing for a new fire pit! These lucky members just happen to be working on building a covered area in their backyard, so this fire pit will fit perfectly!

Thank you to everyone who entered our “Need S’more Money?” drawing! We’ll have more exciting promotions and giveaways coming up, so be sure to stay tuned and check our Facebook and Current Offers page to stay up to date.

….And we have a winner!

Thank you Stephen Curtis of Courtesy Acura for coming down to our main office today to collect your prize, a big bottle of Woodford Reserve!

Thank you to everyone else who entered our raffle at the Fun Day Golf Tournament. We had a blast and hope to see everyone next year!

Check out our post below to see photos from the Courtesy Acura Fun Day Golf Tournament.

April is National Credit Union Youth Month and one of the things we did to celebrate was host an Easter Egg Hunt! Both branches hid Easter Eggs, filled with candy, cash, and toys, around the lobby and invited the community in to have some fun and talk about the importance of children learning to save. We had a great time with those who came out to hunt and had the great opportunity to see some new faces in the Credit Union!

The GTKY staff also had some of their own fun with a Easter Bonnet Contest! Each staff member received a hat to decorate however they wanted, and we ended up with some really cool designs! The staff all voted on the winners of the contest and had a blast with it! Check out some our pictures to see some of our hats!

Do you use Quicken® or Mint® to help manage your finances from one place? GTKY now offers CU 24/7 Online Services through Quicken and Mint!

Downloading your Credit Union account information directly to Quicken lets you manage your personal and household finances quickly and easily without manually entering each purchase or deposit. With Quicken, you can forecast your cash flow, get instant insights into your spending, create and follow a budget, and save more money! You can visit the Quicken website to learn more and download the software.

Mint brings together everything from balances and bills to your credit score and more! Mint is simple and free to set up, taking just minutes to link all of your accounts in one place. With Mint, you can track your bills, create a budget, view your credit score, set account alerts, and track your investments! Visit the Mint website for more information, or download the app for free from the App Store or Google Play.

In an effort to better serve our membership, we have invested in new Online and Mobile Banking technology to make banking easier and more convenient than ever for you. With this new Online and Mobile Banking Platform, members are able to have a better user experience while enjoying some new products and services, like the ability to transfer to and from accounts you own at other institutions, an improved Bill Pay system, remote check deposits, and more!

Want to learn more about the new Online and Mobile banking? Check out our Online and Mobile Banking Conversion page, filled with information and tutorial videos!

Haven’t had the chance to login or enroll for Online Banking? Visit our Online Banking page now!

After the end of the year, it was time to collect all 35 piggy banks from all of the wonderful local businesses we partnered with for the Gift of Change donation drive to tally up our total. Thanks to the generosity of Central Kentuckians this past Christmas season, we were able to raise over $500 for the Make-A-Wish Foundation, all from spare change!

Thank you to everyone who supported this donation drive and took the time to spare some change. We also want to thank Faith Hacker, the Senior Development Director for Make-A-Wish Ohio, Kentucky, and Indiana, for helping us pull this all together.

Visit our Gift of Change page to learn more about our donation drive. Remember to keep an eye out for more community events coming up next year! Follow us on Facebook to see what we’re up to.

This Monday, we went out to one of our participating shops, Old Kentucky Chocolates in Hamburg, and talked with LEX18's Lee Cruse about the Gift of Change Donation drive, our partnership with SCAPA, and the great impact Make-A-Wish has on children's lives everywhere. We were even joined by our newest friend, Finn, a local wish child, and tasted some really yummy samples! Hot tip: Their chocolate covered grapes are amazing! You can stop by their location today to pickup some chocolate and check out our cute reindeer piggy bank while you're there!

We had a wonderful opportunity to talk to FOX56 about the Gift of Change donation drive and spread the word about the work that Make-A-Wish does for children in our community. Check out our interview above and come by one of our participating shops to help make children's dreams come true!