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The NPC is continuing to campaign against the cruel decision to end the  free TV licence for all over 75's from the 1st August. This mailout includes the NPC press release for our plans to hold a 'safe and socially distanced' protest, a guide for you to send us a TV licence protest photo or video and some posters and flyers. National Pensioners’ Convention members are organising a week of protests across the country in a last ditch bid to stop the axing of free TV licences fo

The UK’s largest campaigning organisation for older people is calling on its million-plus members to show the government how angry they are at the loss of the free TV licence for over 75’s. The National Pensioners’ Convention is urging them to ramp up the campaign against the BBC’s decision to axe this vital universal entitlement for our oldest and most vulnerable from 1 August. The NPC, whose members have previously marched on Parliament in protest at the threatened loss of

The NPC is sending out a Call To Arms over the cruel decision to axe the over 75s TV licence from 1st August. Jan Shortt, NPC General Secretary has written a letter to NPC affiliates detailing the steps they can take to show how angry they are at having the most vulnerable section of our society betrayed by the current government. The letter from Jan can be found in full below and in word format here Accompanying the letter is a templated letter for you to write to the Prime

Yesterday the BBC annouced that it is to go ahead with a plan to end free TV licences for most over-75s, after a two-month delay because of the coronavirus pandemic. That means more than three million households will be asked to start paying the £157.50 fee from 1 August. Only those who receive the Pension Credit benefit will be exempt. The NPC are bitterly disappinted by this announcement, but will be continuing to campaign for this UNIVERSAL BENEFIT to be administerd by the