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Tell us about your SSAFA service
SSAFA, the Armed Forces charity has had many memorable anniversaries since Major James Gildea founded the-then Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Families Association in 1885.
One anniversary that SSAFA is particularly proud to celebrate takes place in 2022.
This year sees the 130th anniversary of the inauguration of SSAFA nurses – then called the Alexandra Nurses. Established in 1892, they provided professional care to the wives and families of soldiers and sailors in garrison and seaport towns across the world.
Such was their success that the UK’s National Health Service adopted the Alexandra Nurses’ practices for the District Nursing Service when it was set up in 1948.
SSAFA nurses are still at work today as part of our Community Health Care Team. These dedicated professionals provide first-class nursing and midwifery services to British Armed Forces personnel and their families
Working with inspiring people
With the Association looking to appoint more trustees, I wanted to write to tell you about my own positive experience as a member of the Board for two years now.
During this time, I have been to numerous meetings helping plan and develop the direction and future of the Association. Being part of the Media and Communications committee has allowed me to use my knowledge in social media to develop and run our
very own Instagram page, allowing us to reach our members even further.
I have had the privilege to witness the compassionate and brilliance that goes behind our benevolence grants, supporting the most vulnerable in our community.
Overall, it has allowed me to meet and work with some truly inspiring people. To represent reservist soldiers within the Association allows our voices to be heard in the room where is happens.
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To mark the 130th anniversary of this service, I am inviting your readers to tell us about their family connection to our SSAFA nurses. It might be your mother or grandmother, an aunt or a sister, or a male relative. It could even be you. Please get in touch to share your recollections and photographs of SSAFA nurses throughout the years, so
we can celebrate these stories as part of the 130th anniversary.
Please send your stories and photographs to ssafa.sisters@ssafa. org.uk or by post to the address below with the envelope marked SSAFA Nursing.
Sir Andrew Gregory, CEO of SSAFA, the Armed Forces charity, Queen Elizabeth House, London
Being a Trustee allows me to work collaboratively with fellow reserves, but also regular and retired personal. Comradeship is at the heart of what we do as nurses and soldiers, so to be an integral part of an Association which joins together all those who are serving or have served in the Corps through Friendship is an absolute honour.’
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