Pension related
BBC Pension and Benefits Centre
Broadcasting House
Cardiff
CF5 2YQ
Web site: www.bbc.co.uk/mypension
Email: myPension@bbc.co.uk
The Pensions Regulator
The UK regulator of work-based pension schemes.
Working to improve confidence in work-based pensions by protecting members' benefits and encouraging high standards and good practice in running pension schemes.
Web site: www.thepensionsregulator.gov.uk
Department for Work & Pensions
The Department for Work and Pensions leads the Government's response to some of the biggest issues facing the country - welfare and pension reform - and is a key player in tackling child poverty. It is the biggest public service delivery department in the UK and serves over 20 million customers.
Web site: www.dwp.gov.uk
BECTU BBC pensions campaign
The BBC BECTU represents all categories of staff, and jointly represents journalistic staff with the NUJ and electrical staff with Unite Amicus Section. BECTU members in the Corporation are in the union's BBC Division.
Web site: www.bectubbc.org.uk/pensions/
Other sites of interest
Forum for Former BBC Staff
Topics include: News and Comment; Notices, obituaries and tributes; History; pensions; Ex-pats; where are they now and reunions etc. To post messages on this forum you will need to register an account, which is quite simple.
Web site: www.ex-bbc.net/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.pl
An incomplete history of London's television studios
This website by a freelance television lighting director, contains a wealth of information and pictures about BBC and other studios based in the London area.
Web site: www.tvstudiohistory.co.uk
Cameras, Sound and Lighting at BBC TV
Site created by Bernard Newnham.
Web site: www.tech-ops.co.uk
BBC VT
VT Oldboys. An informative site detailing the history of BBC Videotape Department from 1958 to the present day.
Web site: www.vtoldboys.com
The BBC Logo Gallery
A look back at the changing on-screen look of BBC Television.
Web site: 625.uk.com/tv_logos/bbc.htm
Old BBC radio equipment and memories
This site has many pictures of historic BBC radio equipment and memories from the people who built, maintained and used it. Compiled and edited by Roger Beckwith.
Web site: www.btinternet.com/~roger.beckwith/bh/menu.htm
Web site: www.rts.org.uk/
Old Studio Managers
This fledgling site contains many group pictures of SMs and trainee SMs from the 1960s thru to 2009.
Web site: www.oldsms.co.uk/main.php
BBC H2G2
h2g2 is an unconventional guide to Life, The Universe and Everything. The site is an encyclopaedic project contributed to by people from all over the world. The BBC took over the running of the site in February 2001 as part of a drive to develop new and innovative online services.
Web site: http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/
Digital Spy
Digital Spy is the UK's largest independent entertainment website. The accompanying discussion forums have more than 290,000 registered users and 28.3 million posts, and is in the top 30 English language forums in the world.
Web site: www.digitalspy.co.uk/
