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Issue No 20 September 2008

Annual Conference 2008 report
Attendance Allowance
Executive Committee 2008/2009
Last of the summer wine!!
Meeting with Stewart Stevenson, Minister for Transport, 7 may 2008
Alert! benefits changes
Forthcoming events
Voluntary sector funding crisis
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Fundraising Draw 2008 Prizewinners
Scottish Helpline for Older People (SHOP) advert

Issue No 19 April 2008

Meeting with Des Browne MP, Secretary of State for Scotland
Connecting Generations funding bid - STUC/Scottish Pensioners' Forum
Glasgow Old People's Welfare Association
Pensions Act 2007
Meeting with Peter Hain, Minister for Work and Pensions, and Mike O'Brien, Minister for Pensions Reform
Still Life? Project: Dumfries
The cost of the council tax freeze
Scottish bus firm fined for bad service
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Issue No 18 December 2007

State Pension centenary year - introducing Robin' the Pensioner
Scottish Helpline for Older People
Meeting with Keith Brown MSP
Obituary: Elizabeth IM King
Meeting with Shona Robison, Minister for Public Health
Westminster lobby: October 2007
Indigent Gentlewomen's Fund: advert
Scottish Executive Central Heating programme
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Issue No 17 September 2007

Sixteenth Annual Conference, June 2007
Executive Committee 2007/2008
The Food Train
Fundraising Draw Prizewinners 2007
Post Office Card Account
Your Rights
Switchover to digital television...
Free travel for NI pensioners
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Issue No 16 March 2007

Strategy for a Scotland with an ageing population
Big Grey Power Debate!
Meeting with Annabel Goldie MSP
Obituary: Marion Robertson
Scottish local government elections 2007: change of voting system
CWU-Future of Our Post Office Campaign
Still Life Project born again in Dumfries
Meeting with Rhona Brankin, Minister for Communities

Issue No 15 December 2006

Waterwatch Scotland – a voice for all customers of Scottish Water
Contact the elderly
Scottish Pensioners’ Forum: Financial position
Single Supplements
Central Heating Programme
Notes from a meeting with Gordon Brown MP, Chancellor of the Exchequer, 13 October 2006
Pensions lobby at Westminster: 25 October 2006
Report on Scotland’s Long Walk for Peace, 4th–19th September 2006
Christmas tree, Oh! Christmas tree
I love to live

Issue No 14 September 2006

White Paper on pension reform
Annual Conference, Edinburgh, June 2006
Memory
Retirement
Fundraising draw – Prize winners 2006
Obituary: Bob Caldow
Age Discrimination

Issue No 13 March 2006

Council tax debate
Pensioner poverty
Meeting with Nicol Stephen MSP, Deputy First Minister, Minister for Enterprise and Lifelong Learning
“Still Life?” exhibition at the Scottish Parliament
Meeting with Lewis MacDonald, Deputy Minister for Health and Community Care
Poetry competition
Free central heating installation
Good for you, good for your brain – can dementia be prevented?
Be aware of bowel cancer
Veterans’ lapel badge

Issue No 12 December 2005

Scotland-wide free bus scheme for older and disabled people
STUC Annual St Andrew’s Day Anti Racism March and Celebration
Sponsored Walk
Meeting with Malcolm Chisholm, Minister for Communities
Fuel Poverty
Kerr Report – all 242 pages in a few words!
The Leb (A response to article by Mae Stewart in last issue)
STUC Women’s Conference, November 2005
Postwatch Scotland seminars
World War Two veterans
Lobby of Parliament, 12 October 2005

Issue No 11 September 2005

Influencing government: Forum rises to the challenge
Message of Support from the First Minister
Annual Conference 2005
Annual Conference 2005 Picture This…
Retirement as it should be!
Storyland AKA ‘The Leb’
Glasgow Old People’s Welfare Association – who we are!
Make Poverty History Day
From bogus callers to unwanted callers
National key scheme/Disabled toilets
Sponsored Walk
Still Life? Pensioners’ photography in Scotland
Scotland’s pensioners begin European link
Fundraising Draw 2005: Prizewinners
Wartime Memories

Issue No 10 March 2005

Institutional abuse in Ireland: compensation for survivors
The Auchincloss Room
Meeting with Malcolm Chisholm, Minister for Communities – 20 December 2004
Meeting with Nicol Stephen MSP, Minister for Transport – 24 January 2005
TOP – tax help for older people
Benefits for Older People
Obituary: Tom Hoyes
Obituary: Douglas Michael
Silent Calls
Thanks for the CSPA

Issue No 9 December 2004

Freedom of Information
Mobilise-end age discrimination in Disability benefits
Housing Support charges and older people
Council Tax
Scottish Pensioners' Forum meets CoSLA
Still Life?
Whit did weh dae withoot television?
Chancellor's Pre-Budget Report
Scottish helpline for older people
On a lighter note?
Free dental checks-if you can wait!
Pension book changes
Citizen's pension

Issue No 8 October 2004

Scottish Executive Central Heating Programme
Meeting with David McLetchie MSP
Pneumococcal Disease?
Children's Panels
Pensions Rally - 19 June 2004
Meeting .. Spencer Livermore, Special Advisor to the Chancellor..
Garden Party at Holyrood Palace
Obituary: DP Chotani-ji
National Galleries Project
A common Complaint (poem)
Mobilise- end age discrimination in Disability Benefits
Obituary: Margaret Auchinclos
Obituary: John Mann
Fuel Bills

Summer Extra 2004

Annual Conference: Report
Fundraising Draw 2004: Prizewinners
Good News!
Council Tax Review
Older People's Commissioner for Scotland
Older People's Champions (or are they?)
Local Authority Older Person's Champions

Issue No 7 March 2004

Invitation to Thurso
Conference time
Cheaper at Balmoral!
The Gathering
NHS dentistry Focus Group
Spring clean your finances
Robert Ray (Obituary)

Issue No 6 December 2003

Council Tax Costs
Aberdeen Seniors visit twin city of Stavanger
What do you do as Secretary of State?
Making our voices heard
The State Pensions crisis - Causes and solutions
Double act
Obituary - Tom Auchincloss

Issue No 5 September 2003

Changes to benefit payments
Meeting with John Swinburne MSP
Restore the link
Concessionary Travel
Annual Conference 2003
Pension credit
Fundraising Draw 2003 - Prizewinners

Issue No 4 March 2003

Pension payments Scotland…and the NPC
A voice for all Scottish Water customers
Claim your rights – or lose out Too long for a placard?!
Local Forums –Tayside Executive Committee contacts
Concessionary Travel Wrinkly wisdom-we are survivors
What is the SPF? Hustings Conference – notice

Issue No 3 December 2002

Christmas Bonus Scandal! Happy Birthday to you! Increase at 80
Social Fund Independent Review Service
"Who’s Helen?" one woman play Letters
Concessionary Travel Local Forums – Dundee Pensioners
Adults with Incapacity (S) Act Meeting with Frank McAveety MSP
Life insurance policies Scottish Parliamentary elections
NPC Rally & Lobby 11/11/02 Winter fuel payments

Issue No 2 September 2002

"Why no deal for us?" The elderly could seal the fate of Labour
Quick Quote Annual Conference 2002 report
Care for the elderly Medical MOT
£2 billion unclaimed Highland Senior Citizens Network
Concessionary Travel update Prize Draw – Winners 2002
Louie Ingram obituary

Issue No 1 March 2002

Welcome to Scottish Seniors Annual Conference 2002 notice
Forum to Forum Stop Press:Comic Relief Grant
Scrap Age Discrimination Concessionary Travel
Free personal care for the elderly World Issues
Chancellor’s pre-Budget statement
Bob Harvie obituary