The Scheme is a company sponsored pension scheme, providing a wide range of benefits for employees. The scheme currently has assets of £497m, and a total membership of 12,108, including 4,764 active members, 3,729 pensioners & dependants, and 3,615 deferred members (figures quoted @ 5th April 2004).

The Scheme is a contracted-out, final salary scheme, providing a defined level of benefits for members when they leave, retire, or die, based on the length of pensionable service and pensionable pay.

The Scheme is governed by its Trust Deed and Rules, which have been given approval by the Inland Revenue Savings, Pensions and Share Scheme Office, under the Income & Corporation Taxes Act 1998, Chapter I, Part XIV.

The advisers to the Trustee are as follows:

Actuary	Mr Neil Brougham, Mercer HR Consulting Limited
Auditors	Deloitte & Touche LLP
Solicitors	Mayer, Brown, Rowe & Maw LLP
Investment Managers	Deutsche Asset Management Limited
	Schroder Investment Management (UK) Limited
	Alliance Bernstein Institutional Investment Management

The Trustee can be contacted at the Group Pensions Office, as follows:

Tel:	01638 662277
Fax:	01638 667222
Email:	administrator@dssmithpensions.co.uk