Thanks Raffles, I did look at the purchase of the SPG points purchase route, do not really want to spend £90 so maybe just use MR points when I have made the quota as these were free but looking at profit would only give me 1000 BA points more in the long run as I only want the SPG pts to transfer to BA miles.
I suppose 1000 BA miles for free is better than nothing, hopefully we may see another transfer bonus before my years free membership is up.