You Write

Remembrance Sunday is a special time to stop and think about the men and women who lived and died during the First and Second World Wars.

The Forties may seem a long time ago but for people who live with the memories of loss and distress, anniversaries such as this make the decades seem quite short.

SSAFA Forces Help can offer help to these people and their families if they have fallen on hard times and are now suffering. Remembrance also gives us time to consider the lives of men and women who have continued to support our country, through both National Service and voluntary Service since the end of the Second World War. The valuable work that they take on sadly still continues to the present day in regions such as Iraq and Northern Ireland.

SSAFA Forces Help can assist any man or woman who has served for one day within any of the British Military Services, the Army, Navy or Air-Force. This includes the Territorial Army, Marines and other Reserve forces, and those from the Merchant Navy under Admiralty Charter. Widows or widowers are also eligible for our help, as are the children and dependants of ex-Service personnel.

The way that we assist depends in each case on an individual and their needs. Some of the ways that SSAFA Forces Help work in the community are very straightforward. They might include offering people help with tasks like filling out forms or visiting a person who lives alone. Other issues can take longer to resolve and may include mobility problems, debt, housing or relationship matters.

SSAFA Forces Help volunteers work through a network of well established branches and divisions. They are trained to understand the different challenges ex-Servicemen and their families face and to find the right way to tackle them.

To contact your local branch please call (01642) 217440 or for more general information visit ww.ssafa.org.uk

Alan Crosskill,

Branch Publicity