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Next Committee Meeting/Informal Pub Lunch

The next committee meeting is set for Thursday 23rd September  2010.  If members have any topics they would like raised, please contact the Secretary.  As usual there will be an informal pub lunch afterwards at The White Hart, Stockbridge, SO20 6HF starting 13:00 hours (map).

Latest News August 2010

Your committee met on  Thurs 29th July to conduct its normal business and then to meet up with friends and ex colleagues at The White Hart in Stockbridge.

One of the items discussed was the recent Government proposal to change the indexation of pensions from RPI to CPI. I’ve had some correspondence from members about this subject, seeking clarification of our position as pensioners or members of the ntlPA Pension Plan.

The simple answer at the moment is that we have no information about what may happen, but we have looked at the documents relating to the plan, as can you at the KPMG website.  Our understanding is that the measures will become law for government pensions some time in 2011, but we believe that private plans like ours are much more complicated with regard to government enforcement of such details.  The OPA press releases elsewhere on this website explore this in detail.  We shall be keeping a careful eye on this matter, and are making arrangements for a comments section on this website for members to express their views, thoughts and ideas on the situation.  Watch this space and please feel free to contribute when it’s up and running shortly.

Plans for the 2010 AGM are firming up.  It will be at Arqiva’s Emley Moor site on Sat 20th Nov 2010 at 2pm.  There will be a buffet from 12.30 and a tour of the facility arranged by Paul French, so why not take the opportunity to see how the old place has changed.  The formal AGM notification appears in the September newsletter.  We will almost certainly run a bus from the Winchester area and spaces will be limited to 16, so let Graham Sawdy know ASAP if you wish to use it.

We would value some new blood on the committee next year so please consider whether you’d like to do a little more to help us run the ntlPA.  We know that Virgin Media now see ntlPA as a truly representative body for its pensioners, and we believe that our voice is listened to.  I’m on the committee to do all I can to protect my main source of income (and yours) and if you think you’d like to be part of that team then we’d like to hear from you.  It’s not onerous, and it’s a nice way of keeping in touch with former colleagues.  In particular, Graham Sawdy comes to the end of his 3 year term as Secretary and we’d value a volunteer to pick up that role.  Think about it.  I’m happy to hear from volunteers as well as pressed “men”.

Five of us got together on 27th July to learn more about updating the website pages.  Steven Cole gave us a masterclass (or was it pre-school?) on how to do it, and we’re now much more confident to do so. You’ll be pleased to hear that John Fuller has taken over the webmaster role, managing this new website cleverly created by Steven using Blog software, so we look forward to continuing updates and refreshers from now on.  Our thanks to Steven for all of his hard work and to John for taking over the reins.

Regards to all, and I wish you a great summer.


Mike Thorne.  Chairman. 25th August 2010

Feedback

Do you have a query or suggestion?   Then please use our on-line feedback form when submitting questions or ideas.  In addition, use the same form to contact the committee at any time if you have any matters you would like to raise.