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RAF Benevolent Fund

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

Royal Navy and Royal Marines Charity

Charity Number: 1117794
Scottish Charity Number: SC041898
Company Number: 6047294

Single focus charity for the Naval Service. Provides major grants to serving units and to naval charities. Key outputs are (Serving – Dependants, Amenities, Sport and Prizes; Through-life care–Benevolence).

Contact Information

http://www.rnrmc.org.uk
theteam@rnrmc.org.uk
Building 29
HMS Excellent
Whale Island,Portsmouth
PO2 8ER

Support Offered

Grants made to charities with naval beneficiaries and to serving ships, units and establishments

contact Mrs Anne Carr

SSAFA

Charity Number: 210760
Scottish Charity Number: SC038056

SSAFA provides lifelong support to anyone who is currently serving or has ever served in the Royal Navy, British Army or Royal Air Force and their families.

Each year, our staff and network of 7,500 volunteers are there for more that 50,000 people, ranging from D-Day veterans to the families of young soldiers wounded in Afghanistan.

Contact Information

http://www.ssafa.org.uk
marketing@ssafa.org.uk
4 St Dunstan's Hill
London
EC3R 8AD
020 7403 8783

Support Offered

6,500 trained caseworkers, operating through a local branch network, specialising in sourcing funds from assistance providers
1,000 volunteers supporting serving personnel and their families on military bases around the world
‘Forcesline’ – confidential helpline accessible from anywhere in the world: www.forcesline.co.uk
2 x SSAFA Norton Homes for families of wounded undergoing treatment at Selly Oak Hospital and Headley Court
3 x support groups for bereaved families, bereaved siblings and families of wounded personnel
Housing advisory service and housing options including a residential care home and temporary ‘Stepping Stone’ ‘housing for estranged families
Healthcare, Social work, victim support and adoption services for serving personnel and their families

The Royal British Legion

Charity Number: 219279

Caring and campaigning for the serving and ex-Service community.

Contact Information

http://www.britishlegion.org.uk
info@britishlegion.org.uk
199 Borough High Street
London
SE1 1AA
02032072100

Support Offered

Grants and funding for temporary crisis.
Loans. Assistance finding financial help/ grants.

Short/ long term residential care.
Holiday/ respote homes.

Emotional support and care.
War grave tours.

Veterans Scotland

Scottish Charity Number: SC033880

Veterans Scotland’s is concerned with enhancing the welfare and well-being of the Veterans community in Scotland by encouraging cooperation and coordination between the ex-Service charities in Scotland; engaging where appropriate with the UK and Scottish governments on matters relating to veterans affairs and acting as a point of contact for government and other agencies for all matters relating to veterans policy.

Contact Information

http://www.veteransscotland.co.uk
info@veteransscotland.org.uk
New Haig House
Logie Green Road
Edinburgh
EH7 4HR
0131 550 1569

Support Offered

Aid via other charities http://www.veterans-assist.org/

War Widows Association of GB

Charity Number: 1002656

Pressure group to improve the conditions of War Widows and their dependants, petitioning for improvements in pensions, benefits and other issues.

Contact Information

http://www.warwidows.org.uk/
info@warwidows.org.uk
199 Borough High Street
London
SE1 1AA
0845 2412 189

Support Offered

Newsletter. Comradeship.
Branches for social events.

Women’s Royal Army Corps Association

Charity Number: 206184

Maintaining contact between former members of the Auxiliary Territorial Service (ATS), Women’s Royal Army Corps and women still serving in the Army, fostering mutual friendship between them and providing for social gatherings. Fostering esprit de corps, comradeship, welfare, and preserving the traditions of the QMAAC, ATS, and WRAC.

To promote the interests and welfare of persons who have served in the Corps in such ways as are charitable in law; and the relief of persons in need who are either: persons who have served in the Corps; or the children or dependents of any person (alive or dead) who has served in the Corps.

Contact Information

http://wracassociation.org.
info@wracassociation.org.uk
Unit 11
Basepoint Business Center
1 Winnall Valley Road,Winchester
SO23 0LD
0300 400 1992

Support Offered

A wide network of regional Branches, attendance at subsidised Reunions and AGM, opportunity to attend commemorative events, receipt of Lioness magazine twice per year.

The award of grants of money to purchase specific goods, services or facilities for eligible ex-servicewomen, or their dependants, in need. Provision of general maintenance grants to ex-servicewomen who are elderly, alone, with minimal income and in ill health. Applications via SSAFA or the RBL

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