Welcome to the PABR Forum

Welcome to PABR.org.uk the website of British American Tobacco’s Pensioners Association. PABR is short for Pensioners Association BAT Rothmans and was chosen because it is both easy to remember and enter into your web browser.

PABR is not an official company site and should not be confused with the BAT’s Pension Fund site.

Since it was set up in 1990 to provide independent representation of pensioners’ collective interests, the Association has become an accepted channel of communication to BAT management and the Pension Fund Trustee.

The Association is run by a Committee elected by members to nine constituencies which represent members’ employment locations.
The Committee receives regular briefings from BAT UK Pension Fund Trustee Directors and from the BAT Pensions team, as well as from other relevant organisations such as the Occupational Pensioners’ Alliance and the National Federation of Occupational Pensioners.

Membership of the Association is free and all pensioners are invited to join. If you are not a member and would like to be, then please click here to contact Mike New, the Association’s secretary.

This website is designed as a series of Forums allowing members to start topics of interest for discussion with other members and/or send private messages to each other. There is a separate Forum for each constituency: Basildon, Liverpool, London Head Offices (Millbank, Staines, Windsor House & Globe House) North East (Darlington & Spennymoor), Northern Ireland, BAT Overseas, Southampton, Rothmans UK & Overseas, and Woking/Corby.

Visit Help for tips on using the Forum and view the Privacy Policy.

There is a News section where you will find items of general interest to all pensioners and more specific notices posted by members and the Administrators. Obituaries will appear regularly.

Finally, there is also an Ask an Admin section, where you can raise any matters or issues that you have about the Forum with its Administrators.

Registration

Before entering the site you must first register. Click the Register button at the top right of the page to start.

You will be asked to enter a Username (no spaces can be used, so an example could be RichardDavis. You may decide to use your real name or one you have made up e.g HQgirl or Primaryguy.

Postcode Prefix means the first half of your Postcode.

You will be asked to indicate your last BAT or Rothmans working location.

When you have completed registration, you will receive an email with a link to activate your account. When you have activated you will need to wait for the administrator to confirm you are a legitimate member. This may take some time, so please log in the following day.

You can then Log In to the Forum, send messages to other members, add your comments to discussions, start topics and maybe try and locate former workmates you may have lost touch with. As the site develops we will include contacts and phone number details useful to all pensioners etc.

If you want another member to contact you we would suggest you do not enter your contact details in the open forum but instead use the private messaging facility.

We would ask you to please take heed of the Forum rules. Please also accept the use of cookies.