Royal Naval Benevolent Trust

Introduction box with text, How We Help – Every year we assist thousands of people in the RNBT Family who are in need. Our aim is to help them enjoy a reasonable quality of life mainly by providing wide ranging financial assistance and caring for older people in our own care home.

Female beneficiary in red coat sitting on blue 4 wheeled scooter purchased with funds provided by the Trust

Front door of Pembroke House with flag flying and two residents leaving

Beneficiary in light weight manual wheelchair with canine partner (helping dog) Endal

Grants to Individuals

We make grants to assist in a very wide variety of circumstances. For example, if there is a need, we will give help towards living expenses, house repairs, disability aids, job training, all sorts of financial difficulties and much more. Every year we respond to three or four thousand applications with grants totalling about £1.5 million. See Financial Help/Grants to Individuals.

Annuities

Our Annuities provide some older members of the RNBT Family on very low incomes with a small but regular financial supplement. We currently fund over 1300 annuities at £156 per quarter – a total of almost £800,000 each year. See Financial Help/Annuities.

Grants to Organisations

We give limited financial assistance to a few organisations which support people in the RNBT Family – for example a hospice in Portsmouth and another in Plymouth. This is a small part of our budget. See Financial Help/Organisations.

Care Home - Pembroke House

Pembroke House is our home near Chatham in Kent, where we look after about 50 older members of the RNBT Family who need nursing or personal care. See Care Home/Pembroke House.

Advice

We receive a constant stream of requests for advice about welfare and naval matters. Often we can provide the answer ourselves, but if not, we are usually able to direct the enquirer to someone who can.

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