What We Do

Who We Support

We are a national charity dedicated to helping former civil servants and their dependents make the most of their retirement.

How We Work

We provide charitable services built around friendship and support.

Our History

In an article entitled ‘A Pension Is Not Enough’ written in the early 1960s Douglas Houghton MP highlighted the need for an organisation that offered retired civil servants an arena for friendship and companionship. His idea was supported and taken up by J P Wolstenholme, the then General Secretary of The Civil Service Benevolent Fund and on 9th April 1965 the Civil Service Retirement Fellowship was founded and opened its first branches in Guildford, Birmingham and the Solent area.

Our Work today

Friendship and support remain at the forefront of our work today. We provide a range of services that include three national befriending schemes to help combat loneliness in later life, local community groups (providing educational speakers and leisure activities) and we are on hand to offer information, advice and signposting to a wide range of other supportive organisations, easily accessible via our Freephone telephone advice line.

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