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.

Clip board iconWe 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.

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

Small Hall at the Friends' Meeting HouseThis 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. audio icon

Association appoints new chairman

David Allen at a Committee MeetingDavid 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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What's New

RPI figures from the Office for National Statistics. (Jan 2012)

News update for Dec, new web links of interest, and Part 2 of our BBCPA Survey 'Working at the BBC' Questionnaire
(Dec 2011)

Dec 2010 Newsletter added

News update for September/October

Regional Meetings: Glasgow has moved the meeting from the Viewing Theatre to the Old Man of Hoy meeting room. (Sept 2011)

2011 AGM Minutes added to Document page (Sept 2011)

New page added about the BBCPA Memory Bank project with the BBC (Jun 2011)

Top of page links added and main Nav bar amended to include 'Memories' & 'Members' (Jun 2011)

This site was redesigned on 29th January 2010.

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BBCPA Key Objectives

  • act as an early-warning system and a watchdog on behalf of all BBC retired staff
  • monitor the management and health of the fund and its administration
  • maintain a dialogue with BBC Management and BBC Pensions Trust Ltd and to ensure that they and the trustees are aware of pensioners' interests and take appropriate action to recognise these interests.
  • To maintain active contact with other similar organisations. To monitor legislation and other matters relating to occupational pensions

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