ROPA is an independently funded association formed in 1998 to seek to ensure the security of our pension fund and its fair management in the interests of all of its members.

Membership is open to all pensioners and deferred pensioners of the Royal Ordnance Pension Scheme (ROPS) administered by the owner of the company, BAE Systems. (Currently active members of the scheme cannot join but this may change at some future date.)

On this website you will find:

• why we believe that all pensioner members of the scheme should join,
• how we are organised,
• our policies,
• and information on the state of our fund.

Please note that any enquiries about individual pensions should be addressed to the scheme administration and not to us. We will however welcome enquiries on issues concerning many or all members.

ROPA is a member of the National Pensioners' Convention and the umbrella organisation which campaigns on behalf of all occupational pensioners, the Occupational Pensioners' Alliance. See Affiliations.

ROPA also submits evidence to consultations conducted by the Department of Work and Pensions, the Pensions Regulator and parliamentary reviews. More..

Following concerns raised by number of members, we welcome the assurance given by the Chairman of the Pension Fund Trustee Board that there will be no clawback of past pension increases in the event of the economy going into a deflationary cycle. For example, if the RPI at the end of September 2009, upon which our increases are based, were to show negative inflation,our pension increase for 2010 would be zero%.  He also advised that he believed this rule also applies to deferred members pensions. Deferred members might like to raise this matter personally with their Pension Fund management.  

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