Where is the Pensions Archive based?

The Board of The Pensions Archive Trust has agreed to work in partnership with the London Metropolitan Archives (LMA), to preserve archives relating to pensions and to establish a centre of excellence for the study of archival material, both historic and contemporary, relating to occupational and personal pensions.

The Pensions Archive has therefore been established within the LMA's existing facilities at:

City of London: London Metropolitan Archives
40 Northampton Road
Clerkenwell
London
EC1R 0HB

Tel: 020 7332 3820
Fax: 020 7833 9136

Email: ask.lma@cityoflondon.gov.uk
website: www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/lma

The LMA is managed and funded by the City of London.  It is the second largest archive service in the UK (after The National Archives).  Its existing collections include the archives of many businesses, charities, associations, religious and cultural organisations as well as local authorities, and covers almost a thousand years of history from the earliest document of 1067 to the present day.  

The LMA can provide the infrastructure and management expertise to support the Pensions Archive, both in terms of professional archive and conservation knowledge and management and also as an organisation which has collected, cared for and promoted archive collections since the nineteenth century.  Archives deposited by, or on behalf of the Trust will be managed to the highest standards of professional care by archivists, conservators, librarians and interpretation professionals, who work to national and international standards.  A dedicated project archivist has been employed by the City of London, who will be directly supervised by LMA managers, but funded by The Pensions Archive Trust.

The Pensions Archive collections will be stored in the LMA strong rooms which are specially designed and run to national standards for archive storage from where they will be produced for the public to see.   They will be catalogued onto the LMA's bespoke archive cataloguing software and included in LMA's general interpretation and outreach programmes. 

The Pensions Archive Trust and the LMA have set up a Joint Liaison Committee, which meets regularly to discuss and plan programmes.  It comprises representation from both the LMA and from the Board and Advisory Committee of The Pensions Archive Trust.  In particular it will set and monitor the work of the project archivist and related activities.

The Trust and the LMA will also plan special events and activities, such as a reception to launch the partnership of the Trust and LMA, a special research publication and non-routine conservation work, as well as educational lectures on pensions.