Soldiers and Sailors Family Association

Ssafa existis to help those who serve and those that have served, in any of our TriService community, and the farnilies of both. Northumberland Branch is part of a Nation wide volunteer network and our volunteer caseworkers have assisted around 350 veterans during this last year. The volunteer caseworkers and visitors act as sympathetic, knowledgeable and confidentialfriends to veterans and serving personell with problems and difficulties, however personal and varied. The vast majority of Branches' work concerns casework with veterans and their families, including widows and widowers. This may involve obtaining state benefits, financial grants or simply giving friendly support, advice and help - " the ready help of friends to friends" in allvaried forms.