Applicants are welcome to make an initial inquiry by post, phone, or email to the Honorary Secretary, who will discuss the possibilities available to each applicant.
Applicants are then visited by one of our Visiting Agent colleagues who lives near them, to discuss their application and need for support in a sensitive and sympathetic way.
This is based on an assessment of the level of household income and other circumstances.
On a rolling programme, every beneficiary is re-assessed annually, either in the winter or summer.
Over the years, our charity has supported those who have become seriously ill whilst still in employment, retired colleagues and their dependents, especially the very elderly whose salary will not have attracted a large pension, and the children and dependents of colleagues who have died in service.
There is more about what our charity can do here.