Founded 1980
Chair:        
Secretary: 
Treasurer: 

Graham Smith
Jan Thompson
Graham Mumby-Croft


 Issue No. 81 Autumn 2019
It's 18th August as I write and as I look from the window across the Pennine moors  the clouds are sweeping majestically across the sky it's more like October than summer. My football team ,Huddersfield Town, are bottom of the Championship and the manager just sacked and Yorkshire cricket are in absolute turmoil  with no improvement likely. Does any of this really matter to a retiree you may ask, well no, because us retired folk can easily rise above it and with euro in hand and the cruise ship on the horizon we go onward and upward making the best of it as we can. I hope you continue to enjoy your retirement as do I.

As an ex Magistrate in Leeds I am now on what they call the "supplementary list"  which means I get to go to lunch with ex magistrates occasionally and this always includes a guest speaker which I have done myself on a few occasions. I was pleased to attend a lunch recently and noted the speaker was Veronica Bird so had the pleasure of chatting over lunch and then hearing her 40 minute talk which was brilliant. I now have a copy of her book which I am currently reading and enjoying. Yes I did pay for it.

We have sadly lost Jenny Adams-Young from the RPGA committee who resigned recently, she was a valued member of the team and will be sadly missed, she does remain a member. Our letters coordinator is now Roger Outram, also our webmaster, his contact details are in the newsletter I understand Bob Duncan has supplied letters in this edition too so thanks to Bob for his continuing contribution even though he is no longer on the committee. Roger will be delighted to receive any letter or email contributions for the newsletter.

The RPGA AGM is on the 8th October 2019 at the the PGA annual conference held at a hotel near East Midlands Airport, information about attending the RPGA AGM is in this newsletter. We appreciate the PGA allowing us to attend and facilitate our AGM at their conference and it also allows us to talk to current Governors and hopefully recruit new members to the RPGA. This year we have a stand with handouts and committee members and I am usually am allowed by the PGA President Andrea Albutt to address conference on our branch of the PGA.

I hope you enjoy this newsletter and we welcome any items from members that will be of interest to members on retirement, holidays [trips] and stories of your Service in HMPS etc.

Graham Smith  RPGA Chairman. 



Graham Smith JP