News
The Fund is 125 years Young!
Date: April 11
To celebrate its 125th anniversary, the CSBF is operating a lottery to raise funds – 125th Anniversary Appeal Draw – to be run until 28th October 2011.
The draw is solely for the benefit of The Civil Service Benevolent Fund. All profits from the Appeal Draw go directly towards funding The Civil Service Benevolent Fund and its services to help civil servants and their families.
You can buy tickets to support the Civil Service’s own, in-house charity by clicking this link and following the instructions you will find there. Please help us raise our target of £125,000 to mark this anniversary year.
Home Insurance Now Online With CSIS
Date: April 11
The Civil Service Insurance Society is pleased to announce that you can now obtain a Home Insurance Quotation via their website, www.csis.co.uk. With plenty of benefits included as standard, no admin fees and nothing extra to pay by monthly Direct Debit, there's never been a better time to see if CSIS can save you £££'s.
Retirement News from the Fund
Date: April 11
Civil Service pensioners can view and download a leaflet produced by The Civil Service Benevolent Fund which is written with retired Civil Service staff in mind.
Retirement News outlines how the Fund helps pensioners and uses real-life cases to show how they helped someone in need, and to illustrate volunteering skills. There are nearly 600,000 retired civil servants who could be eligible for the Fund’s help and financial support. By working in the Civil Service you are eligible for their aid and this help extends to the families of civil servants.
In 2010 the Fund helped nearly 900 retired civil servants, or the dependants of, with over £845,000 of financial assistance being granted. Many more were provided with advice and referrals to other agencies we work with.
Did you know that you can continue to support the Fund by volunteering your time to help with their work? There are many worthwhile roles that you can give your time to. We can provide support and training from our dedicated support team.
You can also continue to contribute from your pension by completing the donor form on the back page of the leaflet. Please consider contributing either regularly or as a one-off in our 125th anniversary year in 2011.
Making Lives Better
Date: Feb 11
CSIS sponsor the Civil Service Benevolent Fund celebrations at the Houses of Parliament for the start of the 125th anniversary of their in-house charity, and launch the European Year of Volunteering with Volunteering England.
Speakers at the event, including Nick Hurd MP, Minister for Civil Society and the Cabinet Secretary, and CSBF and CSIS President, Sir Gus O’Donnell, urged civil servants to get more involved in volunteering.
For the Fund, it was a chance to launch its new Volunteering film, Making Lives Better, to approx. 100 committed Fund supporters, decision-makers within government, and key stakeholders in the voluntary sector. The film was supported by CSIS and can be viewed by visiting the CSBF’s website by clicking here.
(picture right - Sir Gus O'Donnell with CSIS Chief Exec, Kevin Holliday)
CSBF Celebrate 125 Years
Date: Jan 11
This year the Civil Service Benevolent Fund are celebrating their 125 year anniversary.
To help celebrate, the Fund has set up a special area on their website to publicise some of the work that they've been up to and to make it easy to find out how to take part.
We would like to offer our congratulations the the Fund on their 125 year anniversary, and urge you to visit their 125 year mini-site and learn more : www.csbf.org.uk/125_year
TEAM Sponsor the CSNE Big Day Out
Date: Aug 10
Thank you to everyone who came to see all the TEAM members' stands at the recent Big Day Out event at Newcastle Racecourse
Thousands of people attended the event and enjoyed the many stands and attractions, thankfully blessed by good weather!
Please click here to read more about the day and see the photos on the CSSC site, or click here to see the CSBF's article.
CSBF Fund Raising Week Results
Date: 16/12/09
The events have been held, a great time had by all, but for our Fund Week team and all those who got involved up and down the country, the hard work has well and truly paid off.
Ministry of Justice and DWP London and North West officially supported the Fund Week campaign. A special week devoted to fundraising and raising awareness of the Civil Service in-house charity, whilst having fun. Staff from these departments and many others got into the spirit of Fund Week by organising raffles, quizzes, cake sales, karaoke nights, dress down days, and salsa evenings, to name but a few.
Clare Bridges, Fundraising Initiatives Manager said, “I am delighted to announce that the total amount generated for Fund Week exceeded expectations at £11,618”. In addition Ministry of Justice and DWP donated 10p per completed staff survey. This has generated a further £5,000 from MOJ. We are still awaiting the final total from DWP but anticipate that this will bring the Fund Week total to approximately £20,000. Clare adds, “We’re so grateful to all those that supported Fund Week, whether they bought a raffle ticket, spent time organising or took part in events. Your support of this campaign will make a massive difference to someone’s life”.
We’re already starting to think about making the 2010 event even bigger and better. If you have a query about our annual fundraising extravaganza, or want to get involved please contact our Fundraising Initiatives Team at fundweek@csbf.org.uk.
TEAM at CSLive '09
Date: 10/07/09
Thank you to everyone who came to see us the the recent CSLive '09 event at Olympia.
Hundreds of people came to talk to us about the services, benefits and discounts available to Civil Servants via TEAM Civil Service, with many offering to help promote TEAM to their colleagues in offices across the country.
We also held a draw to winn £100 of M&S vouchers, and we're pleased to announce that the winner was...
JOAN ELLIOTT of The Ministry of Justice in Cardiff.
So congratulations to Joan, and thank you again to everyone who came to see us, and everyone who offered to help spread the word of TEAM - we'll be in touch soon !
CSIS revives Life Assurance
Date: 03/03/09
We are happy to announce that by CSIS teaming up with independent financial advisors, St Lawrence, all Civil and Public Servants and their partners can now benefit from access to a number of discounted Life Assurance products.
Please click below to see the types of policies available, and click through to a wealth of useful information about the different types of product on offer or to get your own discounted, online quotation in minutes.
CLICK HERE for more information or to get your quote now.
New online travel insurance from CSIS
Date: 09/02/09
Travel insurance is now even better value AND easier to purchase, following the arrival of CSIS' ONLINE QUOTE AND BUY pages.
All serving and former Civil and Public Servants and their families can buy CSIS' travel insurance 24/7 and, as the documents are emailed instantly, even if you get to the airport before you realise you've forgotten the insurance you can still count on CSIS to be there for you.
With high levels of cover, 24 hour Emergency Helplines and special annual deals for families and single parent families, make sure you have complete peace of mind on your trip by taking a CSIS policy with you.
CLICK HERE for more information or to get your quote now.
13 million people save for private medical treatment
Date: 22/01/09
Against a backdrop of the one of the worst flu crises facing the NHS in a decade, a survey of 1,000 UK adults commissioned by PMI provider CS Healthcare found that nearly 27%, equivalent to 13 million UK adults, are actively saving specifically to pay for medical treatment. An additional 29% (equivalent to 14 million) of the adult population are resigned to the fact they may have to access their general savings in a medical emergency.
A New Look for the Fund
Date: 14/11/08
If you have logged into the Fund’s website recently you will have seen we have changed!
We have replaced our previous site with a more attractive, and we hope, more useful place to log into and find out more about your benevolent organisation.
We've taken the opportunity to totally overhaul the content of the site and provide far more information and advice than we could ever manage on the old site.
And, what's more, we've taken the opportunity to bring all our web content together - no more usernames and passwords to worry about if you logged in previously!
If you haven’t visited the new website, please do and let us know what you think. It can only grow into the resource we think it should be if more people start visiting, so why not try us now - http://www.csbf.org.uk
Fund's Video hits the spot!
Date: 14/11/08
The Fund’s new video has been widely hailed as a great success by showing how we work to help people who are struggling; it provides a powerful insight into the needs of applicants.
Titled ‘Help at Hand’, it presents a heart warming insight into what we do by providing an independent service to those who are struggling.
It shows the different ways we are able to get things done – quickly, efficiently and in confidence.
Copies of the DVD are available free of charge from the Publicity section at Fund House; email: publicity@csbf.org.uk or tel. 020 8240 2448.
The video can also be viewed from the Fund’s new website at http://www.csbf.org.uk/help_and_advice/help_at_first_hand
Get a FREE copy of CSRF's AVANTI mag
Date: 18/9/08
Great News for all CSRH visitors!!
The Civil Service Retirement Fellowship are offering a complimentary copy of their quarterly members magazine “avanti” to anyone who logs onto this RETIREMENT HUB. Just get in touch with CSRF by email to jackie.reilly@csrf.org.uk or phone 020 8691 7411 and quote “Retirement Hub”.
A great offer from CSRF
Date: 18/9/08
Are you about to retire from the Civil Service? For a limited period the CSRF are offering one years’ free membership! Get in touch either by telephone: 020 8691 7411 or email jackie.reilly@csrf.org.uk . You will receive with your free membership a special commemorative book and their quarterly magazine, avanti. Please quote “CSRH” when applying. You don’t need to wait until you retire to support the CSRF, if you want to know more about us. Call the above number or view our website.
Feeling the pinch?
Date: 10/09/08
As the credit crunch begins to affect us all, we can all benefit from ways to cut those bills and other essential monthly costs. The Civil Service Insurance Society (CSIS) can provide discounted household and motor insurance with no upper age limits to all serving and retired Civil and Public Servants. Being a not for profit organisation, CSIS offers specially negotiated, discounted rates, and also offer payment by monthly direct debit at no extra cost (0%apr) to help you budget better.
Simply call CSIS on 0845 60 77 444 to speak to one of their friendly, UK based team.