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Records of the Aged Poor Society. The records cover an incomplete collection of minute books and annual reports for the Society and Saint Joseph's Alms House, Hammersmith. According to the Society's 'Historic Records' report (1957), no records prior to 1820 have survived.

Despite the gaps in the records, the minutes and reports provide detailed information on the establishment of the almshouses, the use of funds from will bequests, the admission and discharge of aged poor beneficiaries, and the membership and patronage of the Society.

Records of Associated British Foods Pension Scheme's trustees, which include:

• the Trustees of Allied Bakeries Limited Pension Scheme,

• the Trustees of George Weston Holdings Limited Pension Scheme,

• the Trustees of Associated British Foods Pension Scheme, and

• Associated British Foods Pension Trustees Limited.

These include the corporate records of the trustees, records of the scheme's administration, finance and property management, and publicity material.

Records for ABF's other pension schemes, namely the senior management pensions schemes of ABF and Allied Bakeries, the Weston Life Assurance scheme and the Allied Bakeries Limited 'Q' Pension Scheme.

Records of G.W.H. Properties Limited, who managed the property of ABF Pension Scheme's trustees.

Records of the Weston Provident Fund.

Records relating to the administration of pension schemes of ABF's subsidiary companies, including the British Sugar pension schemes, the Crazy Prices Pension and Life Assurance Scheme, the D.E. Longe and Company Limited Pension Fund, and the 'Small Pension Funds', which includes the pension schemes of Thomas Burton Limited, Coxes Lock Milling Company Limited, S. Edwards and Sons Bishops Storford Limited, Gilliatt and Sons Limited, S. Healing and Sons Limited, Hipwell and Sons Limited, Andrew G Kidd Limited, J G and B Thompson Limited, William King Limited, Witherington and Over Brothers Limited and Yorkshire's Ideal Flour Mill Limited.

Records of Associated British Foods Trustee Company of Ireland Limited, which acted as trustees for ABF's pension schemes for their staff in Ireland.

Records of the Association of Consulting Actuaries, 1951-2013, including minutes of the main committee, sessional meetings and annual general meetings, 1951-2003, and various publications, including annual reviews, Parliamentary Pensions Briefs, survey reports, histories and a fiftieth anniversary dinner souvenir programme.

Records of BAE Systems Pension Scheme including Pension Scheme explanatory booklets, leaflets and annual reports and accounts. Includes papers on new state pension arrangements (1926-1978). These papers include those kept by Peter G Dawes and Chris Bedford.

Staff records of Barclay Perkins and Company Limited, including clerks' salaries books; staff registers and service books; papers relating to brewing staff, cellar staff, cooperage staff and lager staff; pensioners and invalid payments books; correspondence; papers relating to the staff Social and Athletic Club; issues of the staff magazine "The Anchor", and photographs.

BASF plc Pension Scheme Explanatory Booklets; 'Staff Supperannuation Scheme' (1982) [facsimile]; 'Investing in ourselves and our future' (1997) and 'Defined Contribution Section: your member guide' (2007).

This collection contains Pension Scheme Explanatory Booklets from Bedfordshire County Council . 'Local Government Pension Scheme summarised report and accounts 1998/99' and 'Bedfordshire Pension Fund summarised report and accounts for April 2006 to March 2007'.

Records of Capita Hartshead, comprising 14 annual Pension Scheme Administration Surveys from 1994 to 2007.

Records of CARL Communications Limited including 'Pensions World' magazine publications (1972-1987) with indexes and budget summary; 'Pension Fund Trusteeship in 1980s' with reprint edition (1981-1985).

Staff records of Charles Beasley Limited, brewers, including wages books; salaries ledgers; records relating to compensation; papers relating to the pension scheme; and savings bonds certificates.

This collection contains Pension Scheme Explanatory Booklets; 'Rules of the West Somerset and Devon Manufacturing Company Superannuation Fund and Life Assurance Scheme' (1950's); 'Staff Assurance Scheme English Sewing Cotton Company Limited' (1962); 'Pasolds Limited and Subsidiary Companies Retirement Benefits Plan Revised Scheme B' (1969); 'Pasolds Limited and Subsidiary Companies Retirement Benefits Plan Revised Scheme A' (1970); 'Coats Patons Superannuation Fund' (1978) and 'Your Guide Through The Coats Pension Plan' (2007).

Records of the City Chamberlain, Corporation of London, including return of pensions paid by the Corporation; receipts for rents and rates paid; papers relating to Freedoms of the City of London; assessments of subsidies; quinquennial valuation lists; papers relating to duties and rates.

Staff records for Courage and Company Limited, brewers, including papers relating to wages and salaries; register of pensioners; papers relating to appointments; papers relating to an insurance policy for war injuries; and bye-laws of The Courage Club, staff association.

Records of Courage, Barclay and Simonds Limited, brewers, including papers relating to pension funds; copies of staff circulars and memoranda; papers relating to the British Institute of Management and the Brewer's Society; correspondence; reports; staff publications and journals; papers relating to the introduction and development of computers and electronic data processing; papers relating to office equipment.

Records of Customs and Excise, comprising 'poundage and premium' ledgers relating to pensions arrangements for Customs and Excise staff, 1867-1868. Also letters to Customs and Excise from authors whose books had been counterfeited, 1905-08.

Records of Noble Lowndes and Partners Ltd including Paul R Dawson's records on Noble Lowndes and Company Limited. Pension Technical Information Service instruction bulletins (1989-1992). Copy article on Noble Frank Lowndes by Hugh Woolhouse from 'Dictionary of Business Biography'. 'Pension Fund Investment' volume edited by A G Shepherd and accompanying correspondence to Paul Dawson from Anthea Nugent.

Explanatory booklet regarding the 'Friends Provident Pension Scheme', 2000.

The Gulf UK Pension Scheme collection comprises explanatory booklets (1964-1989) and newsletters (1984-1990) issued by the Scheme, and explanatory booklets for the Stock Option Plan (1974; 1983).

Staff records of H and G Simonds Limited, brewers, including Staff Salaries committee minutes; Staff Salaries and Appointments committee minutes; private salaries; list of staff with bank and branch; First aid centre daily attendance registers; retail managers register; Pensions fund ledger; staff pension scheme register, being diary of contribution rises, receipts, etc., with extracts from Board minutes.

Staff records of Harmans Uxbridge Brewery Limited, including wages records; staff employment files; accident papers; service agreements; papers relating to pension and life assurance schemes; papers relating to the appointment of the company secretary; and telephone directory.

Records of Headington Holdings Ltd relating to the Robert Maxwell case including legal papers, claim correspondence concerning Maxwell Communications Corporation plc and pension scheme booklets. Summary photocopy legal papers prepared by Cooper and Lybrand Deloitte arranged by document number concerning companies in the Maxwell Group including; minutes, memoranda, reports and statements. Newspaper cuttings on Maxwell Pensions and video 'What's the Catch?' (1991) by Firebrand.

Pension scheme booklets for Hunting Plc; 'A Guide to the Hunting Gibson Limited and Hunting Group Limited Retirement Benefit Scheme (1967); 'Additional Voluntary Contributions' (2002) and 'The Hunting Pension Scheme' (2002).

John Hutchieson's Mirror Group Pension Scheme papers received as employee/pensioner: MGN Pension Trustees Limited pension bulletins, annual reports and circulars with reference to Robert Maxwell scandal (1991 Dec - 1996 May, 1999).

Pension Scheme Explanatory Booklets for Imerys UK and English China Clays, producers of industrial minerals;

Note: These records are in electronic format produced in 2008.

'English China Clays Group: Pension and Life Assurance Scheme Female Staff' (1979); 'English China Clays Group: Pension and Life Assurance Scheme Male Staff' (1979); 'English China Clays Group: Pension and Life Assurance Scheme for Craftsmen Operatives and Associated Personnel' (1979); 'English China Clays Group: Staff Pension and Life Assurance Scheme' (1979) and 'IMERYS Explanatory Booklet' (2008).

Records of Incisive Media Limited, 2006, including awards programme and guest list for the Professional Pensions' Pension Scheme of the Year Awards.

Records of the Jewish Memorial Council, 1899-2001. The archive mainly consists of files and volumes of minutes and working papers. The records of the Reverend Malcolm Weisman are noteworthy for the detail they provide on the survival of Judaism in small, often isolated, communities.

Records of Legal and General Assurance Society Limited, subsidiaries, and companies which it acquired. The records include minutes, annual reports, registers, financial accounts, specimens of policies and forms, and staff registers. The papers relate to life, accident and fire insurance; investments and pensions.

Papers of Legal and General (Pensions Management) Limited, including memorandum and articles of association; annual reports; minutes; investment reports; and annual review.

Records of Legal and General (Unit Pensions) Limited, comprising minutes of annual general meetings and annual reports and accounts.

Records of the London Fire Brigade Widows and Orphans Fund, including minutes; annual reports; rules; subcription books; cash books; retirement fund accounts; and distress fund accounts.

Papers of Tony Lynes, 1957-1997, including research papers, correspondence and publications concerning various fields of social policy and administration collected by Lynes in his own research and as advisor to various organisations and individuals. Includes: material relating to research conducted as an assistant to Richard Titmuss and as an advisor to the Labour Party on social security policy; notes and papers concerning Lynes' involvement with the formulation of social security legislation; research material concerning pension schemes and policy (both domestic and international), housing, immigrants, asylum seekers, taxation, unemployment and work undertaken with his wife, Sally; papers, correspondence, reports and publications from and relating to Lynes campaigning and research into the functioning and operation of the Social Fund, 1988-1991.

Certificate, souvenir programme and menu card from a reception held by Queen Alexandra for nurses from the Royal National Pension Fund for Nurses at Marlborough House.

Records of the Mary Westby Trust, including trustees' records, records relating to property, volumes of collected documents relating to the Trust, financial accounts, and correspondence with the Charity Commission.

Collection of documents including:

• Memorandum of receipt of £250, upon an Annuity or Pension of one thousand pounds per annum from Commissioners of Excise for the City of London and counties of Middlesex and Surrey, 1677.
• Special Constable's warrant to assist in control of riots, 1848.
• Memorandum of special pardon issued under privy seal to William Walker of London, goldsmith, convicted of felony, [1640].
• Memorandum of proclamation prohibiting the making or wearing of demicasters or using wool with beaver in beaver hats, [1639].

This collection contains Pension Scheme Explanatory Booklets; 'Trust Deed and Rules relating to The Molins Pension Fund' (1936) [facsimile]; 'The Molins Pension Fund' (1962) [facsimile] and 'Explaining your benefits for the future' (2007).

Records of the National Association of Pension Funds Ltd, 1917-2009, comprising minutes, agendas, reports and correspondence from various committees; secretary's files; documents concerning membership; publicity and outreach material, including conference publications, yearbooks and published reports and surveys; and audio-visual material, including photographs and promotional videos.

Records of the National Benevolent Society of Watch and Clock Makers since 1916; and the archives of the three predecessor institutions, the Watch and Clock Makers' Benevolent Institution, the Watch and Clock Makers' Pension Society and the Clock and Watch Makers' Asylum. The records comprise annual reports and accounts, financial records, minutes, correspondence and related papers. Also one volume of an earlier benevolent society active in London from 1767 at least, the Society of Clock and Watch makers.

Records of Jane Newell relating to the Maxwell Pensions Unit, comprising annual reports and accounts, general reports on the work of the Maxwell Unit and Trust and training manual.

Personnel records of Nicholson and Sons Limited, brewers, including papers relating to setting up the pension scheme; Staff Pension Fund Committee minutes; pension fund trust deed; papers relating to membership of the pension fund; financial accounts; and papers relating to the pension fund at the closure of the brewery.

The collection contains Pension Scheme Explanatory Booklets; 'Central Electricity Authority and Area Boards (Manual Workers) Superannuation Scheme Explanatory Booklet' (1956) [facsimile copy]; 'Electricity Supply (Staff) Superannuation Scheme Explanatory Booklet' (1956) [facsimile copy] and 'Electricity Supply Pension Scheme Northern Electric Group Members Guide (2005).

Collection consists of the Occupational Pensions Defence Union's newsletter 'OPDU Report' (issue 7 missing).

Records of the Pensions Advisory Service Limited, comprising: memorandum and articles of association; a publication on the history of the organisation; annual reviews.

Records of the Pensions Archive Trust including minutes and associated papers of the Joint Liaison Committee relating to the administration of PAT, chairman's papers and annual reports and accounts; materials relating to publicity and outreach work carried out by PAT, namely PAT publications and events; and materials collected by PAT.

Records of the Pensions Management Insitute Limited, 1977-2010, including corporate, administrative, member services records and photographs. Corporate records including: minutes, circulated papers and correspondence of Council; copies of memorandum and articles of association; annual general meeting minutes and papers; papers of the External Affairs, Strategy and various sub committees; president's correspondence files; and a paper on the Institute's history.

Administrative papers including: papers of the ad-hoc steering group, money purchase working party, model administration steering group and occupational pensions seminar group and the Secretary General's correspondence files.

Digital records relating to member services, which include: conference, seminar and annual dinner publicity and attendance lists; guidance notes, codes of practice and handbooks relating to PMI qualifications; publicity materials; PMI News; and PMI Technical News.

The collection also includes a photographic archive of PMI events, speakers at conferences and prize winners, and the memorandum and articles of association and circulated papers for PMI Services Limited.

The collection consists of reports (discussion papers, research papers, technical papers, working papers, briefing papers and reference manuals) produced by the Pensions Policy Institute between Sept 2002 and Mar 2010. Some reports are only available in an electronic format as PDFs (currently held on two CDs).

The series of reports have been arranged and numbered in the order they were published: if the reports had more than one part they listed under the same number and distinguished by a letter A or B. This numbering system has been used consistently across both formats.

The series does not include the Pensions Policy Institute's first report Retire at 72 (Feb 2002), the mid-project review of Shaping a stable pensions solution (Oct 2005) (paper 22) or the participant paper outlining case studies for the TUC's Pensions Champion training programme (Jul 2009) (paper 47).

Records of the Pensions Research Accountants Group, comprising: minutes of the Executive Committee and Annual General Meeting (1976-1999) and the annual accounts (1977-1997); papers of working parties working on reports and publications; papers of working parties producing responses to consultations; material relating to outreach; membership files kept by Group members; and publications produced by the Group (1978-2014).

The collection consists of explanatory booklets issued by the Prudential Assurance Company Limited Pension Scheme.

The collection contains publications and reports by R Watson and Sons (1975-1993), business correspondence and publications by Paul N Thornton (1986-1997).

Pension Scheme Explanatory Booklets produced by Lex Service, which later became RAC PLC. 'The Lex Service Pension Scheme Explained' (1993); 'The 1994 Lex Service Pension Scheme' (1994); 'The Multipart Section of the Lex Service pension Scheme' (1999); 'Formula 4 Guide for RAC Employees' (1996); 'The Lex Service Pension Scheme Senior Management Section'(2000); 'The Lex Service Pension Scheme Executive Section'(2000); 'Additional Voluntary Contributions Will you be ready for retirement?' (2000); 'The RAC Pension Scheme 1997 Scheme' (2002); 'The RAC 2003 Pension Scheme Summary' (2003); 'The RAC 2003 Pension Scheme Senior Management Section' (1993); The RAC 2003 Pension Scheme Updated Booklet for the Non-Contributory 1994 and Multipart Sections' (2004); 'The RAC 2003 Pension Scheme Looking further ahead' (1997) and 'RAC pensions Flexiplan Your benefits explained' (2007).

The collection comprises primarily of the Raising Standards in Pensions Administration's secretary's papers, along with a copy of Dunnett Shaw's report on raising the standards of pension administration from 2001.

The secretary's papers comprise:

(a) Copies of documents relating to the formation of the organisation and its registration as a charity; (b) Copies of minutes and papers for the Trustees, Steering Committee, Working Groups and Compliance Committee; (c) Copies of minutes and papers of the organisation's Annual General Meetings; and (d) The secretary's correspondence and associated papers.