Constituent members
SSAFA Forces Help (Soldiers, Sailors & Airmen & Families Association - Forces Help)
London
| Reg. Charity No. | 210760 |
| Address | 19 Queen Elizabeth Street London SE1 2LP |
| Contact(s) | Mr Derek Howard-Budd, Deputy Director of Welfare |
| Phone | 020 7403 8783 |
| Fax | 020 7 03 8815 |
| info@ssafa.co.uk | |
| Web | www.ssafa.org.uk |
| Objectives / History | SSAFA Forces Help is the national charity helping serving and ex-Servicemen, women and their families in need. This includes ex Merchant Navy and personnel and fishermen, who have served in conflicts involving the UK, and their families. SSAFA Forces Help acts in confidence as their friendly adviser in times of crisis or anxiety and provides practical help where possible. There are over 800 branches manned by 7,000 voluntary workers who between them cover cities, town and villages throughout the British Isles. The address of the local branch can be found at the local Post Office and Citizens Advice Bureau if not in the telephone book. Overseas, whenever Service families are concentrated, SSAFA Forces Help provides a professional Community Health and Social Work Service to the Armed Forces, equivalent to the best provided by UK authorities. In the UK it provides a social work advisory service for the Army and the Royal Air Force. Accommodation for ex-Service people is provided by way of self contained flats for Officers' and Warrant Officers', widows, divorcees and unmarried daughters in Wimbledon; convalescent and residential care homes in Surrey and Hampshire; and purpose-built cottages for the disabled in various locations, together with holiday apartments. Short stay accommodation is available for separated families following marriage breakdown. Training and employment of disabled ex-Servicemen and women takes place at the Lord Roberts Workshop in Edinburgh. The close network of trained volunteers and professionals means that SSAFA Forces Help's friendly, unbiased assistance is readily at hand wherever in the world servicemen and women and their families are stationed. |