To: All employees whether or not you belong to the ESPS OR UPP schemes

The national Pension Awareness campaign is marking its 10^th birthday, with a series of free, online events from 11-15 September 2023.

Open to all ages, these events are designed to make complex information about pensions easier to understand and help people make more well-informed decisions about their pension and their future. 

While these events will not give you specific information about your options within either the ESPS or UPP Schemes, they will help to give you a broader understanding of some important pension topics. 

The subjects being covered, include:

• How much will I need to save for retirement?
• Everything you want to know about workplace pensions but were afraid to ask
• The new State Pension explained
• Pensions and tax explained
• How can financial advice help me?

Each session will last around 45 minutes and will be available to watch back later for anyone who is unable to attend.

You can download a full timetable of the live events on the Pension Awareness Day website.

For further details or to book, please visit pensionawarenessday.com/live-shows

Alongside the live shows, Pension Awareness 2023 is also offering access to a wide range of articles, videos and resources, designed to further enhance your pension knowledge. You can find all of these online at pensionawarenessday.com

Pension Awareness 2023 is supported by Pension Geeks, Pension Attention, MoneyHelper and the Department for Work and Pensions. 

It marks the start of a whole season of events aimed at getting members of all ages more interested in their pension. Other highlights include:

• The Pay Your Pension Some Attention Campaign, which launches the week beginning 18 September.
• National Pension Tracing Day – 29 October
• Talk Money Week – 6 to 10 November

We’ll share further details about these other events in the coming weeks.

Adrian Furnell

Secretary to Trustees