The opdu Report - Issue 23, November 2007

Bulletin Board
News From The Pensions Archive
Alan Herbert, Chairman of opdu’s Advisory Council

The Pensions Archive continues to make progress and has been receiving donations of further collections of material over recent months. These include collections of various publications from Kevin Sims of Pension Fund Partnership, 14 annual Pension Scheme Administration Surveys (1994-2007) from Capita Hartshead;
a complete set of Benefits and Compensation International (1971-2005) from David Callund on his move to Devon and copies of Professional Pensions (1997- 2005) from MSM International Ltd. There are some copies missing. If readers have back copies available do contact the Project Archivist for details of the copies required.

Katy Holman has been appointed Project Archivist by the City of London - London Metropolitan Archives which provides the archival services to The Pensions Archive Trust. She took up her appointment in July.

Katy is a graduate of the University of Wales (BA Hons) and completed her MA Archives and Records Management at University College London. She has worked over the last five years in both the private, public and academic sectors in archives and records management - for local authorities in Wales, the Royal Bank of Scotland and King's College London.  Katy has worked on a range of professional activities over this time; cataloguing to approved archival standards; answering enquiries (including Freedom of Information requests); setting up and running a public search room; maintaining webpages; setting up a records management store, auditing departmental records and establishing appropriate retention periods. Katy is a member of both the Records Management Society and the Society of Archivists for which she is close to completing her professional registration.
 
For the six months prior to taking up her appointment with the Pensions Archive Katy worked for GlaxoSmithKline in Brentford.  Here she managed the records management service, recruiting and training staff, creating records management procedures and guidelines and implementing them. Katy is very pleased to be pioneering the work of the Pensions Archive Trust.

A new website has been constructed; www.pensionsarchive.org.uk and is about to be launched.  This will be further developed as the Archive grows.

In order to fund the Project Archivist position and the costs of constructing the website the initial donations have been drawn down from our Sponsors.  We are very grateful to the following companies and organizations which are providing financial support to the project:

Abacus Lighting Limited
Aon Consulting Limited
Barnett Waddingham LLP
BP Pension Trustees Limited
Higham Dunnett Shaw plc
GlaxoSmithKline plc
HSBC Actuaries & Consultants Limited
Imperial Tobacco Group plc
Morgan Stanley Investment Management 
Pensions Research Accountants Group
Societe Generale Asset Management UK Limited
The Law Debenture Trust Corporation plc
The National Association of Pension Funds
The Occupational Pensions Defence Union Limited
UBS Global Asset Management

The Pensions Archive Trust and the London Metropolitan Archives will be holding a reception on Thursday evening 7 February 2008 at the Guildhall Art Gallery by invitation of the City of London to celebrate the establishment of the Pensions Archive and to thank the Sponsors.

The Pensions Archive Trust would like to hear from you if you or your organisation is interested in sponsoring the work of the Trust, donating materials, accessing material held in the collections or if you wish to be kept informed of future developments.

Alan Herbert,
Chairman
The Pensions Archive Trust
01438 869198
alanherbert@btconnect.com

All enquiries should be directed to the Project Archivist:
Katy Holman  Project Archivist 
The Pensions Archive Trust
City of London:
London Metropolitan Archives
40 Northampton Road
London  EC1R 0HB
020 7332 3879
katy.holman@cityoflondon.gov.uk