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Cost Effective Health Insurance for Officers’ Families.

Our health insurance provides help in meeting the unexpected costs of illness for your dependants.
Knowing that financial support is readily available to help meet the additional costs of nursing, hospital care and domestic help when emergencies happen can mean working and home life does not have to stop whilst your family member recovers.

Since 1911, Lady Grover’s Fund has grown as a Friendly Society to meet the needs of officers’ families in times of illness and injury. By joining as a member, you are able to access critical financial support when you and your family need it the most – enabling you to provide additional nursing, hospital or domestic care you might otherwise be unable to afford.

Contact Information

http://www.ladygrover.org.uk
secretary@ladygrover.org.uk
40 Caversham Road
Reading
RG1 7BT
020 7808 4180 / 0845 873 7161

Support Offered

Who we help:
– Dependants of officers of all three services and the Royal Fleet Auxilliary whether serving or retired
– Widows or widowers of officers
– Divorced wives or husbands of officers, (for their own benefit or that of their children)
– Dependant parents or step-parents of officers
– Children are eligible for help until they are 18, or 21 if they are in full-time education

Charity Number: 230090

Situated on the Suffolk Coast in a Grade II listed building the charity aims to provide seaside respite holidays and short breaks to ex members of the armed forces and the merchant service, and to their spouses and widows/widowers.

Contact Information

http://www.kitchenerslowestoft.co.uk/
kitchener@lowestoft.org.uk
10 Kirkley Cliff
Lowestoft
NR33 0BY
01502 573564

Support Offered

Originally founded in 1919 as a convalescent home for ex-service personnel as a memorial to Lord Kitchener the Centre now provides, from April to October, half board seaside holiday and short break accommodation with ten en-suite twin bedrooms.

Charity Number: 1102593
Company Number: 5021052

Our mission is to supply Bibles and Christian resources to the uniformed services, seafarers and associated organisations.

Literature is provided on request and reimbursement is sought through donations and sponsorship to meet production costs and overheads.

Contact Information

https://nmbs.org.uk/
enquiries@nmbs.org.uk
Castaway House
311Twyford Avenue
Portsmouth
PO2 8RN
02392699873

Support Offered

Bibles and Christian resources

Charity Number: 201321

Dedicated exclusively to supporting officers, ex-officers and their dependants. Including provision of employment services, financial and welfare support. Works in close collaboration with other charities.

Collocated with The Soldier’s Charity, RFEA and the Haig Housing Trust and Cobseo.

Contact Information

http://www.officersassociation.org.uk
info@officersassociation.org.uk
40 Caversham Road
Reading
RG1 7BT
020 7808 4160

Support Offered

Short and long term financial help and advice for ex-officers and their families, throughout their lives.

Access to residential homes for disabled and single persons.

Employment support and job finding for officers and ex-officers throughout their working lives. Part of MoD Career Transition Partrnership.

Scottish Charity Number: SC014096
Company Number: 194893

Poppyscotland provides life-changing support to the Armed Forces community.

Contact Information

http://www.poppyscotland.org.uk
New Haig House
Logie Green Road
Edinburgh
EH7 4HR

Support Offered

Money raised from the Scottish Poppy Appeal and Poppyscotland’s year-round fundraising enables them to deliver support to members of the Armed Forces community in Scotland by providing tailored funding and assistance. The charity also funds services in advice, employment, housing, mental health, mobility and respite.

Charity Number: 1081009
Scottish Charity Number: SC038109

The RAF’s leading welfare charity, providing practical, financial and personal lifetime support to all members of the RAF family whether serving or veterans and their families.

Contact Information

http://www.rafbf.org
mail@rafbf.org.uk
67 Portland Place
London
W1B 1AR
020 7580 8343

Support Offered

Provides practical, financial and – in some cases – emotional support to all members of the RAF family, regardless of rank, from childhood through to old age.

Help with top-up care fees

Help with disability

Adaptations
Equipment
Mobility
Death and Disablement in Service

Housing assistance
Education costs
Financial Need

Property Repairs

Welfare breaks

Support for the serving RAF

“Airplay” Youth Support Project
Childcare centres
Benefits and Money Advice Service
free relationship counselling

Charity Number: 1152560

Sitting within the heart of the Royal Air Force, the RAF Central Fund, originally founded by serving RAF personnel are dedicated to providing support to enhance the sense of well-being, morale and community cohesion for those serving in the RAF today and into the future.

Contact Information

http://www.rafcf.org.uk/
mail@rafcf.org.uk
SO2 Service Funds, HQ Air command
Hurricane Block
Ground Floor,RAF High Wycombe
HP14 4UE
01494 569068

Support Offered

Direct financial assistance, primarily through grant making to assist with:

Community support and welfare projects
Supporting the RAF Sports Associations
Support for individual, section and unit sporting endeavours
Capital support for sport facilities
Personal development awards
Expeditionary welfare grants
Donations to linked Service charities to support the serving RAF community

Charity Number: 1174874

To help Commonwealth ex-Service men and women now in need.

Contact Information

http://www.commonwealthveterans.org.uk
Haig House
199 Borough High Street
London
SE1 1AA
020 3207 2413

Support Offered

Fund-raising and grants. Majority of help given is for basic food and shelter. Where possible, providing help with healthcare.

Charity Number: 1134205

As of the 1st April 2019, the Royal Marines Association and The Royal Marines Charity have merged. The routine working name (borrowing from ABF The Soldiers Charity) is ‘RMA – The Royal Marines Charity’.

Contact Information

https://theroyalmarinescharity.org.uk/
enquiries@rma-trmc.org
RMA - The Royal Marines Charity
Building 72
Commando Training Centre Royal Marines,Lympstone
EX8 5AR
01392 346424

Support Offered

To enhance the operational efficiency and effectiveness of the Royal Marines

To sustain and promote the heritage and esprit de corps of the Royal Marines

To provide welfare support, advice and friendship to serving and retired Royal Marines and their families

To generate funds, non-financial benefits and access to employment in order to provide the best possible through life charitable support

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