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This
Website receives no financial support and is entirely funded by me Bill
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All
BT Pensioners and Ex BT Employees
and
even existing Employees are welcome
to
become members of this site.
BT Pension Scheme
Declines to Publicise this site ................More
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You
can now search for former colleagues by Surname only, as well as First Name and Surname
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Did
You do National Service in the Royal Navy?
On
completion of Y2YC training, I was called up to HMS Collingwood as a Radio
Electrical Mechanic.(REM) There were other Y2YC's at Collingwood in 1956.
Jock Menzies was one I remember. If
you were also one of them mailto:w.rees614@btinternet.com |
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A Photographs Page has
recently been
added to the site and photographs are urgently required. Men/Women at work, in training
or at leisure could be interesting subjects. Jpeg format preferred.
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This
website is at an early stage of development and relies entirely on members
registrations. To have any value in its primary purpose of search activity, it
needs thousands of members rather than hundreds. The Registration process is
simple and no personal details are required I don't need to know
Pension No.; Nat Ins No.; DOB; or even your Shoe Size, just your Name and Email
address. So now that you have visited the site why not Register
Now.
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Now that you have visited the site,
please become a member, even
if you feel that you won't revisit very often. Increasing the number of
members improves the funtionality of the site. Thank you |
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To gain an
appreciation of the whole site and to understand how it could develop.
Please do browse other pages via the links at top & bottom of
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2012
The Centenary of Britains first public automatic telephone exchange
ITP
Midlands Region Event Saturday19 May2012
More
information
here
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Are
you a World War II Veteran or do you know someone who is?
A
former WWII Lancaster Bomber Crew Member, Ted Cachart, has contacted me to help publicise
grants that are available from the Big Lottery Fund to enable veterans
and their widows/widowers to pay a remembrance visit to the area in which
they served. Grants range from £150 - £5500 (for Far East Visits) and will be
available until 31 Dec 2012
Ted
is willing to advise anyone who is interested on how to claim, he can be
contacted by phone 01773 853181 or email: ted@49squadron.co.uk
Learn
about Ted the 15 year old Bomber Crew hero and his amazing and inspiring story.
http://www.fiskertonairfield.org.uk/photo2_2.html
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Site
Profile
Site
Objective
The primary objective of BT Pensioners
Reconnect web
site is for all BT Pensioners,
to enable renewed contact with
old friends
and
colleagues and
to discover how they have fared in retirement.
I
expect this site to appeal to pensioners from the old Telephone Areas, Regions
and HQ. but I hope younger more recent pensioners will see the benefits and
become members
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All
grades and disciplines can now become members Members are all equal and
Rank, Grade or Level is irrelevant. We are all just BT pensioners!
In achieving the
primary objective,
a pensioners forum and Magazine content can also be provided.
The
content of the site in general,
will depend on
feed back and more importantly members input to the site and
its pages..
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Background
Neither
BT or the BT
pension scheme offers any social networking opportunities for their pensioners
that I am aware of, unlike some other companies and pension organisations.
BT does
mail 'BT today' magazine to over 60,000 pensioners but despite the label "Pensioner
Edition," it is a BT in house magazine, which is of interest and I read
thoroughly but I never find anything that is specifically for pensioners. A
letters page only survived for a for a few issues before it disappeared.
Retirement
is a sudden and abrupt change of life and it can be a lonely place without that
workplace contact. So since I first
retired from BT, I have nurtured visions of a magazine web site that would provide
opportunities for social contact and help to keep old
workplace friendships going and to keep in touch with former colleagues.
Then along came 'Friends Reunited' (FRU) and
I
stopped any further development of my ideas as (FRU) appeared to be very similar to what I had in mind but much wider
in scope, very professional and run by people with
skills far beyond my capabilities. I
thought (FRU) would do what I
had in mind but it doesn't, It is too widely based with no regard to the structure of the PO/BT organisation.
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For contacting old colleagues
(FRU)
just does not work for me. I have yet to make a contact through it, so I still believe that there is a place for a site
such as this.
In
an attempt to address these issues, the Site BT Pensioners Re-Connect' is
initiated and founded by me, Bill Rees, who spent a large part of his career in Sales in West
Midlands, Coventry, Midland Region and ultimately in London.
Bill Rees C1987
There
is potential for this site but it cannot be achieved with such a simple amateur
site, and a professionall
design may be necessary. That will be for the future, meantime I
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Who Can become Members?
Pensioners from all Departments/Divisions who are interested in joining this site are
most
welcome to become members and can now online. Pension Scheme Members with deferred
pensions and current employees are also welcome as members of this site. register
here
Membership Terms
By registering as a member of this site you confirm
your agreement, to the details you supply, being added to the register of members,
which will be recorded in a database and be available to be searched by all members. It
will not be possible for any member to browse the whole database.
As soon as a member has completed his/her registration, the
member will receive confirmation of his/her User Name and Password by e-mail to enable the
member to search at any time, for a former colleague by his/her name and the details
held will be displayed. The user is able to view; update; amend and correct
their own personal data.
Personal information will as far as
possible be safeguarded and not divulged to others or used for any purpose other
than the objectives of this site.
Registration is an Online process
and the database is not held on a PC but on a secure server of a well known and
respected host.
The names only, of new members registered may, from time to time be published
on the site for the benefit of other members.
The collection and processing of
personal data is in accordance with the requirements of the the Data
Protection Act.
Costs
Start up costs of this site will be borne by W F Rees. However
a small fee may need to be introduced later as the site develops and some
finance will be required, hopefully from advertising on this site, to fund future development and maintenance.
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