Date: Thursday September 12, 2019 at 12:43pm
The RNBT Family comprises
all those who are serving or have served as Warrant Officers and below in the
Royal Navy and Royal Marines and their wives, husbands and dependent children. They
can all turn to the RNBT when in need throughout their lives.
The RNBT makes thousands
of grants each year to help members of the RNBT Family who are in difficulty
and can provide financial assistance for such things as:
-
Disability aids
-
Vocational Training
- Food, clothing and fuel
- Rent and mortgage payments
- House repairs and household goods
- Childcare
- Respite and recuperation holidays
- Debts
- Funerals
- Domiciliary Care and Care Home Top-up
fees
The
Trust was originally organised around Area Committees based on the RN’s Port
Areas with the Trust’s work localised to those areas with high-density naval
populations. Today’s Trust has moved on
from the Area structure given the national and indeed worldwide nature of the
Trust’s work with its headquarters and Grant Committee operating out of
Portsmouth. In addition to the headquarters
function, the Trust operates its own ‘World Class’ 55-bed care and nursing home
- Pembroke House - at Gillingham, Kent and is also the sole trustee of a 6-unit
almshouse – the John Cornwell VC National Memorial at Hornchurch, Essex.
The
Trust has a staff of about 65 full-time equivalents (there are a number of
part-time employees) plus a healthy ‘book’ of volunteers, especially the
trustees and those who willingly give of their time to serve on the Grant
Committee and as Friends of Pembroke House.
The Trust’s President is Vice Admiral Sir Charles Montgomery KBE, the
Vice President is Jim Moulson MBE and the Chairman to the Board of Trustees is Captain
Nick Fletcher Royal Navy; Commander Rob Bosshardt Royal Navy is the Chief
Executive.
The Royal Naval Benevolent Trust
Castaway House
311 Twyford Avenue
PORTSMOUTH
PO2 8RN