This Chairman’s message from Mike Shaw was included in the first edition of the Members’ Magazine in February 1987. At that time, the Retirement Club’s title reflected the current structure of the Bank, as illustrated by the cover of the Club’s magazine:

As stated in the magazine ‘it is emphasised that the formal title of the TSB Retired Staff Association (Birmingham Region) is merely a statement of the correlation between the active regions of TSB England & Wales and their retired staff. It does not in any way imply that the Association’s activities are limited to members living in the Birmingham area.’

The Birmingham Region of TSB England & Wales was based on an administrative office located at TSB House in Sheldon, and the Club’s magazine was ‘reproduced from the original and distributed with the goodwill and kind co-operation of the Management and relevant staff’ at the Sheldon office.

The Association had 10 Areas, reflecting the geographical spread of the TSB Birmingham Region, and the main centres of population on which the original Savings Banks were based:

There were vacancies for Area Representatives in Areas 6 and 9, three Representatives for Birmingham (Mike Shaw; Margaret Smith; Ray Stanley) and one in each of the six other Areas.

The Association’s Committee consisted of the following officers:

For the members living in the Birmingham area, arrangements were made for a Coffee Morning on the third Wednesday of each month, at the ‘Red Lion’ in Vicarage Road, Kings Heath, as detailed in the Associations' Newsletter for July 1986 that outlined the programme for that year.