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2025 PARTNERS
Legal Partner
Actuarial Partner
Professional Trustee Partner
We are pleased to annouce that Arc Pensions Law will continue as the exclusive legal partner to the Charities Pensions Club.
Arc Pensions Law is a national specialist pension law firm based in London and Leeds and brings together a wealth of pension industry knowledge. Its team, including nine partners, have over 250 years’ combined experience of advising on all aspects of pensions law and practice including numerous charities.
"We pride ourselves on providing clear, tailored and pragmatic advice. Our excellent mix of technical skills and commercial common sense, alongside our collaborative approach, enables our experienced, yet down-to-earth, team to provide tailored and solution-driven advice."
Kate Payne
Partner
kate.payne@arcpensionslaw.com | 0113 467 8791 | 07971 142 385
Kate has many years of experience advising trustees and employers in relation to all aspects of pensions law. She has supported a number of charities involved in the pensions aspects of charity restructuring when participating in the Local Government Pension Scheme as well as advising a charity with a “by analogy scheme”. More recently she has advised on the pensions aspects of two merger projects for two different charity groups.
Kate is consistently ranked Band 1 for pensions in the Chambers UK Guide and continues to be recognised in The Legal 500 UK as a ‘Leading Individual’ for Pensions (Leeds).
Beth Brown
Partner
beth.brown@arcpensionslaw.com | 020 7653 8962 | 07435 556142
Beth advises trustees and employers on all aspects of pensions law, including governance. She has also been seconded to the Pension Protection Fund.
Beth plays an active role in the pensions industry, chairing the PMI’s Award in Pensions Trusteeship Committee, and regularly contributes to pensions-related publications and conferences. Beth is ranked as a recommended lawyer in The Legal 500 UK 2025.
We are delighted to welcome First Actuarial as the CPC Actuarial Partner for 2025.
First Actuarial helps charities strike the right balance between pension benefits and charitable aims. They work with charities of all sizes, supporting both DB and DC pension arrangements, as well as multi-employer DB schemes.
They can provide investment advice for charitable endowments. They are the leading provider of pensions advice to the not-for-profit sector and we are delighted to have them be part of our club.
Dale Walmsley
Partner
dale.walmsley@firstactuarial.co.uk | 0161 348 7464 | 07361 361 312
Dale is a partner and is the Head of our Manchester office. He is a qualified actuary with 25 years’ pensions experience and Head of First Actuarial’s Public Service Pensions group.
Dale provides support and guidance to many employers in the not-for-profit space, helping them address the cost and risk challenges often associated with their pension schemes. Dale always seeks solutions with an employee focus and considers staff engagement as crucial.
Natalie Ogden
Associate Partner
natalie.ogden@firstactuarial.co.uk | 0161 348 7446
Natalie is an Associate Partner and qualified Scheme Actuary with nearly 20 years’ of experience in financial services. She is a leading member of First Actuarial’s Financial Wellbeing team and is passionate about her work in this area, helping individuals to make the most of their finances.
Natalie primarily supports Trustees and Employers in managing their Defined Benefit pensions. Her expertise includes actuarial issues such as scheme funding, recovery plan designs, actuarial factors, transfer bases, and GMP equalisation. She also works collaboratively to implement solutions for non-actuarial projects such as Governance (including risk monitoring and mitigation, emerging issues, and member communications strategies) and Administration (including pension Dashboards, benefit rectification projects and data quality management).
We are delighted to annouce that Pi Partnership will continue as the CPC's exclusive Professional Trustee partner for the second year.
Pi Partnership is an independent, employee owned organisation that provides a supportive environment to enable our team of pension professionals to deliver the very highest standards of services. We provide independent scheme secretaries and governance specialist that sit alongside our professional trustees.
Our professional trustee team are drawn from a number of different backgrounds including actuarial, legal, investment, HR and business management so are able to support clients with whatever challenges they may face in delivering the promised benefits to their members.
Lynn Pointon
Head of Trusteeship
l.pointon@pipg.co.uk | 0208 879 6500 | 07718 480 175
Lynn leads the trustee team at Pi and is a member of the Executive Management Team and a Director of Pi’s Corporate Trustee Board. She is therefore instrumental in the development of Pi’s Trustee proposition, the integration of Knowa, the award winning technology company into our governance processes and the implementation of our specialist scheme buyout service.
An experienced pension professional, having spent over 30 years in the pensions industry, Lynn is a well known industry figure. A Fellow of the Institute and Faculty of Actuaries, Lynn was initially engaged as a Scheme Actuary where she supported trustee boards through a wide range of significant events such as funding negotiations, scheme mergers, corporate transactions and insolvency situations.
Amanda Burden
Director and Governance Specialist
aburden@pipg.co.uk | 0208 879 6500 | 07580 772 157
Amanda is a Board Director of Pi Partnership and leads the development of Pi’s services. She works closely with clients, the Pi team and professional advisers to ensure all of Pi’s services meet the changing needs of the pension market and deliver clear value to Pi’s clients.
Amanda has over twenty-five years’ experience in the pensions industry and, provides specialist project management for clients on a range of services, including adviser selection and review, trustee board assessment and governance design. As well as being a Fellow of the Pensions Management Institute (PMI) and Chair of the PMI London Group, Amanda holds PMI certificates in Pensions Automatic Enrolment and DC Governance, was a past Prince2 practitioner and is a Certified Risk Management Practitioner.
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