Hello and welcome

I hope you are keeping warm as we go through a period of low temperatures and short dark days. Better is yet to come though and that includes an excellent range of events developed, for you, by our amazing Committee.

You will find details of some of these in the Spring Edition of the Link and others will follow later in the year.

The AGM will take place in April, and you will find details in the following pages along with summaries of our various activities during 2024. As you know the AGM takes place after our Spring lunch and we hope that you’ll be able to stay on for the formal stuff which won’t take long and, of course, the raffle will then be drawn!

I hope to see you at the AGM and at other events this year.

My best wishes to you and your families

Roger Alexander, Chairman

Membership Categories

We have changed the joining criteria to enable those who have transferred their pension out of Barclays to join, see below for details:

Pensioner Members

Those in receipt of a Barclays UKRF pension, which was taken either at retirement from active service with Barclays; or Flexible Retirement; or on the grounds of ill health.
Former Barclays staff aged 50 or over, with a minimum of 15 years’ service, who are in receipt of a Barclays UKRF deferred pension.
Those in receipt of a widow’s, widower’s or partner’s pension from the UKRF in respect of a pensioner who qualified for Club membership under 1 or 2 above.

Associate Members

A Spouse or partner of a Pensioner Member.
Former Barclays Colleagues and their spouses or partners, who are not Pensioner Members.

Please be aware that charges for any event will be greater for Associate members as we do not receive a Bank Subsidy.

The standard joining fee of £10 as a one-off is the same for all wishing to join.

We publish a regular, quarterly newsletter, THE LINK. It is sent to all registered members. However, sending it by post is a very labour-intensive process. So we are making every effort to persuade members to take it by email instead. We have managed to increase the number of people who receive their copies this way to c. 300. This, however, is still likely to be far fewer than the total number of members who have email accounts.

When you receive it this way it arrives as an attachment to an email message. The attachment is a PDF (Portable Document Format) which opens with Adobe Reader. Almost all computers already have this FREE software installed. If not you can download Adobe Reader from here. Beware and make sure you "uncheck" the optional offers as these may cause conflicts on your PC.

If you can receive your copy this way we urge you to get in touch by using the Newsletter option on the Contact Us form. Let’s face it, if you are reading this message, you probably have an email account and can swap to this version. We’ll help you with the painless conversion.

Christine Graham

To find something from an old newsletter check out the Newsletter Archive by clicking here.

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