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Talbot Road - Ashland UK Pension Fund
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Ashland UK Pension Fund
Notice is hereby given pursuant to Section 27 of the Trustee Act 1925 that the Trustees of the Ashland UK Pension Fund (the “Trustees”) have commenced the process of winding up the Ashland UK Pension Fund (the “Fund”).
The Trustees have written to all members and beneficiaries currently receiving benefits or with a known entitlement to future benefits under the Fund.
The Fund is currently called the Ashland UK Pension Fund but it has previously been known by other names including the Valvoline Oil Company Limited Staff Retirement Benefits Scheme and the Ashland & Affiliates Pension Fund. Also, various other schemes merged with the Fund over the years and you may have originally been a member of one of the following schemes before joining the Fund: the Ashland Chemical Limited Pension and Life Assurance Scheme, the Drew and Affiliates Pension Fund, the Valvoline Oil Company Pension Scheme, the W R Grace Limited Pension Plan, the Grace UK Pension Plan, the Betz Limited Pension & Life Assurance Plan, the Betz Dearborn Limited Pension & Life Assurance Plan, the Citrus Colloids Pension Plan, the Hercules UK Pension & Life Assurance Plan and the Hercules UK Pension Plan.
If you have not recently been contacted but believe you have an entitlement to any benefit from, or an interest in the Fund as described above whether in respect of your own or any other person’s membership, you are required to send details in writing by 30 September 2026 of your claim or entitlement (including you full name, present address, date of birth, National Insurance Number, details of the period of employment to which your claim relates (where relevant) and the full name of the pension scheme). This deadline is at least two months from the date of publication of this notice.
Details of your claim or entitlement should be sent to the current administrators of the Fund as follows: Aptia UK Limited, Maclaren House, Talbot Road, Stretford, Manchester, M32 0FP, or by web: https://pensionuk. aptia-group.com/aptia. After 30 September 2026, which is at least two months from the date of publication of this notice, the Trustees will distribute the remaining assets of the Fund as part of the winding up of the Fund.
Benefits will be provided only to those persons whose valid claims and entitlements the Trustees have received notice of and they will not be liable to or in respect of any other person of whom they were unaware.
Anyone who has already been contacted by the Trustees about this matter should not respond to this notice as the Trustees already have details of their claims and entitlements.
For the Trustees of the Ashland UK Pension Fund
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