CIPP update
Celebrating 40 years of supporting payroll professionals THE CIPP’S business development director, Vickie Graham DipM ACIM, who has been trawling the Institute’s archives, writes about “this incredible journey learning about our heritage and history. I am truly touched to receive so many messages from our members who were involved in the early days of creating and supporting our Institute. “I want to thank Roy Roach who reached out after reading March’s magazine and commented: ‘I really enjoyed reading your article … about the ‘birth’ of [APSA] as I was one of the few. I remember clearly that first meeting at Kensington and Chelsea Town Hall and perhaps especially the £5 (cash) we all paid as our inaugural fee (which we could not claim back on expenses). ‘Although very small at the outset the new organisation to represent pension and payroll was very professionally run and it was not long before we received our membership cards. I remember my membership number was 009. ‘One of the highlights of the early days was the monthly magazine which as I recall was mass produced in someone’s front room on a stencil machine. … On the back page … was a crossword which offered the winning entrant a treasured engraved brass paperweight. One month I was one of those lucky winners [and it is] sitting on my desk at home.’ Vickie is currently reading through those APSA newsletters, some of which Vickie observes “were indeed produced on a stencil machine in the early days” and that the “crosswords certainly seemed to provide some light entertainment”.
Congratulations to newly accredited PAS organisations
CIPP staff witness new world record
THE CIPP Payroll Assurance Scheme (PAS) is our flagship payroll audit solution, the gold standard for your processes and people and the prestigious award to covet in the payroll industry. It consists of two distinct elements: one will audit your payroll processes and the other will audit the learning and development of the staff within the payroll function. Congratulations to our most recently accredited organisations: ● ESOS Ltd
THE CHARTERED Institute’s Jason Clark, training and quality assurance manager, and Vickie Graham, business development director, recently witnessed (obviously before the lockdown)
Vickie, Jason, the surveyor, and Ellie Chamberlain and Jemma Henninghan of Aston University
● FMP Payroll Services Ltd ● Payroll As You Go Limited ● The Chartered Institute of Payroll Professionals
the making of a new Guinness World Record. On 12 March, they attended the creation, counting and measuring of what is officially the ‘longest line of sanitary pads’ which consisted of 20,320 pads measuring 1,888.9 metres. The line was completed by the girls’ netball team at Aston University to raise awareness for period poverty. All the pads were donated to Aston University and to Birmingham and Solihull Women’s Aid.
Welcome to new CIPP board member THE CIPP is delighted to welcome Carole Pearson MCIPP who has been Ken Pullar, CIPP chief executive officer, said: “We are thrilled that so many organisations, including our own, have achieved this prestigious accreditation. It is imperative that organisations comply with government legislation and the Payroll Assurance Scheme is designed to help companies do just that.” Email compliance@cipp.org.uk to find out how the Payroll Assurance Scheme can benefit your organisation.
roles before moving to X-changing HR services as operations director and then Experian as a HR shared services and payroll consultant. During her time working for these organisations, she gained in-depth knowledge and experience in generalist HR, HR transformation, change management, HR shared services, payroll, HR systems, and HR outsourcing. Carole has worked for Marks & Spencer for eleven years and is a member of the HR senior leadership team. She is head of colleague services and HR transformation, accountable for developing and delivering the colleague services strategy and services to over 70,000 employees across the UK. The next phase of the HR transformation programme focuses on moving to a cloud-based technology solution which will further transform the way the business manages its people in the future.
co-opted to the board based on her experience within strategic HR, effective from 1 April 2020. Carole has gained a breadth of
experience in senior leadership roles focussing on the development and delivery of HR strategy and people proposition, and on leading and driving the delivery of the business strategy. Her appointment to the board will be of direct benefit to the CIPP team internally, as well as to members who are on a similar career trajectory. In the early part of her career, Carole held several generalist roles in BAE Systems and progressed to senior generalist HR
| Professional in Payroll, Pensions and Reward | May 2020 | Issue 60 4
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