The Royal Naval Benevolent Trust

The Royal Naval Benevolent Trust is a Royal Navy and Royal Marine charity that gives help to serving and former Royal Naval ratings and Royal Marines other ranks in cases of need.

From:
Office for Veterans' Affairs
Published
12 September 2024
Health and Social Care:
Social Care
Finance:
Financial help
Housing:
Care homes
Community and social:
Volunteering opportunities
England:
North East and Yorkshire, North West, Midlands, East of England, London, South West, South East
Northern Ireland:
North (Coleraine Area), South (Portadown Area), East (Holywood Area), West (Enniskillen Area)
Scotland:
The Southern Uplands, The Central Lowlands, Grampian Mountains, Northern Highlands, Hebrides and the Northern Isles
Wales:
Mid and West Wales, North Wales, South Wales Central, South Wales East, South Wales West

The Royal Naval Benevolent Trust (RNBT) provides financial support to help to serving and former Royal Naval ratings and Royal Marines other ranks. They can also help partners, children and others who are connected with a beneficiary.

They make grants to assist in a very wide variety of circumstances, such as help towards living expenses, house repairs, disability aids, job training, a range of financial difficulties, care home top-up fees, domiciliary care and more.

RNBT is almost certainly able to assist:

  • primary beneficiaries – serving and former serving men and women, past or present Royal Navy rating or Royal Marine other rank, including reservists
  • dependent spouses or partners of a primary beneficiary with whom they live, and any children (under the age of 18) of a primary beneficiary, living or deceased – this may include:
    • a dependent child who is not the natural child of a primary beneficiary
    • a child who has continued in full-time education on reaching the age of 18
    • a child over the age of 18 but unable to support themselves because of mental or physical disability
  • widows and widowers of a deceased primary beneficiary, with whom they were living at the time of death and not living with a new partner
  • separated or divorced wives and husbands of a primary beneficiary and not living with a new partner

This is not an exhaustive list and individual circumstances can be complicated. For any queries, use the contact details below to check eligibility.

Get in touch with The Royal Naval Benevolent Trust

By phone

Phone: 02392 690 112
Monday to Friday, 9am to 4pm

By email

Email: help@rnbt.org.uk

Online

Website: The Royal Naval Benevolent Trust

By post

The RNBT Headquarters
Castaway House
311 Twyford Avenue
PORTSMOUTH
PO2 8RN

Updates to this page

Published 12 September 2024