Government RPI for December 2011
The December RPI from the Office for National Statistics was 4.8% and CPI 4.2%. The RPI figure is the one that will be applied to BBC pensions from April 2012 (Old and New benefits) but capped at 4% and 2.5% for the CAB schemes.
EU plans may 'kill off' company pension schemes
It has been reported in the press that all British occupational pension schemes could be rendered unsustainable by proposed European Union regulations. See full article by James Kirkup in the Telegraph.
Working at the BBC Part 2
Last year with our Christmas Newsletter we invited you to complete a questionnaire about your BBC career and to tell us how interested you might be in taking part in a project to develop a 'workers' history' of the BBC.
Some 500 members responded, many of whom were enthusiastic. There was a general feeling that there were tales to be told that would never appear in an official history or in one of the autobiographies of the great and the (hopefully) good.
Over the last year we have held meetings and been in discussion with the BBC with a view to creating a database of memories which will eventually complement the database of past programmes which the BBC is currently working on (the Genome Project). Details of which are reported in the Newsletter.
We described our previous questionnaire as a' toe in the water' exercise. Now we would like to invite you to a gentle paddle which will run alongside the creation of a memories database.
- Questionnaire Part 2 (74Kb)
- Questionnaire Part 2 (175Kb)
When you have completed the form, please attach it to any additional written account you may have and send it to us (address on form) by Friday 30th March 2012 or as soon as possible thereafter. Alternately email the completed Word Doc to workingatthebbc@bbcpa.org.uk
An online Questionnaire form is in preparation and will be available to use soon.
Annual General Meeting
This year's BBCPA AGM took place on 21st April 2011 in the Small Hall at the Friends' Meeting House, 173-177 Euston Road, London. We thank all that attended.
Our Guest speaker was Roly Keating (former Controller of BBC Two) who is now BBC's Director of Archive Content, and Excutive Editor of BBC Online.
Roly Keating provided his perspective on and importance of BBC archive content, with relevance to the BBC's Genome Project, by which the unwritten history held in the collective memory of BBC Staff/exStaff and pensioners could be collected before it disappears.
On the Meetings page you can listen to part of the proceedings that took place during the AGM. 
Association appoints new chairman
David Allen has become chairman of the BBC Pensioners' Association. He succeeds Martin Cox, who has held the post for three years.
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