Prospective Scheme employers
- Application form
- Application guide - New documents coming soon.
Prospective academies
Prospective transferee admission bodies
- New documents coming soon.
Prospective community admission bodies
- New documents coming soon.
If you do not have login details, please contact the colleague who acts as your main Greater Manchester Pension Fund (GMPF) pension liaison officer, as they will be able to give you access. For additional help you can contact our GMPF Employer Support team.
Applying to join GMPF
Read our guide for prospective employers to find out about joining the Greater Manchester Pension Fund (GMPF). It contains important information on the duties and responsibilities of being an employer and explains the types of employer.
You’ll need to download the relevant application information guide and complete an application form. Once we receive your completed form, we’ll look into your application and will aim to contact you within four weeks.
You may also want to read the GMPF policy on employer admissions into the fund. Please email us at employersupport@gmpf.org.uk for further assistance.
Application forms
Transferring employees
When you apply to join GMPF you must also include details of any staff that will transfer to you from a previous Local Government Pension Fund (LGPS) employer. To do this, please use our staff list document. The staff list is necessary for the actuary to calculate your opening deficit/funded position, sub fund and to prepare your first accounting reports. If you are applying to be an admitted body, the staff list will also be included in your admission agreement to state which staff are eligible to join GMPF. When emailing the staff list to us, please ensure that you encrypt the document to protect the personal information it contains.
You can contact us at employersupport@gmpf.org.uk.
Other important documents and information
These additional documents provide further information on any costs and charges as well as other useful information about our strategies at GMPF and joining the Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS).
- Academies arrangements and the LGPS Edition 4(2) FAQ
- For academy trusts: Fair Deal for staff pensions: staff transfer from central government
- DfE local government pension scheme guarantee for academy trusts: pensions policy for outsourcing arrangements
- GMPF guide to pension liabilities and strain costs
- LGPS arrangements for academies 2017
- Schedule of employer costs and charges
- Standard risk assessment form for admission bodies
- Funding strategy statement
- Pension administration strategy
- Pension and lifetime savings (PLSA): Navigating entry into the LGPS for local government contractors This document must be read in conjunction with GMPF policies and procedures.
- Academy Trust good practice guide (LGPS)