Outstanding SSAFA - Soldiers, Sailors, Airmen and Families Association

SSASA Their Values:

SSAFA; Commitment, Understanding, Integrity, Compassion.

Their 5 strategic aims deliver their vision & mission by:

1. Understanding need: They will ensure they understand and adapt to the needs of those they support.
2. Delivering consistent & effective support: They will alleviate suffering and distress by providing appropriate, timely and effective support.
3. Sustaining our resources: They will ensure they have people with the right skills and sufficient time to deliver their services, underpinned by a sustainable income.
4. Raising our profile & strengthening our brand: They will strive to be recognised, known and understood.
5. Growing collaboration: They will work together within the organisation and with external partners.

What makes them unique?

They understand the unique demands of service life, whether it’s on UK soil or overseas. Support is available for people at any stage in their military career; from the youngest recruit to the oldest veteran – no one’s service is ever forgotten. They have more than 4,000 trained SSAFA volunteers who provide personalised, face-to-face support to those in their local area.

Their trained welfare advisors and volunteers work with each person to find out exactly what they need. Once they’ve assessed what is required, they’ll help the individual or family access the support they need. This may just be someone to listen to them, but, more often than not, they access financial assistance from statutory and military benevolent funds or foundations that they work with. In addition, they signpost to their other charity partners who can give much needed assistance to help people get their lives back on track.

Whatever they’re facing – from debt or addiction to mental health problems – our Forces and their families can rely on SSAFA and their personalised support to help them through it, for as long as it takes to get that person’s life back to where they want it to be.

When anyone in our Forces family finds themselves in need, SSAFA is the charity they can turn to. Whether it’s financial, practical or emotional, they provide the right kind of support, ensuring independence and dignity is protected at all times.

Their fundraising promise

They are committed to ethical fundraising and hope to represent the very best of charitable organisation working in the UK and around the world. Read their fundraising promise here.

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