Ambulance service charity celebrates 25 years of caring

The Ambulance Services Benevolent Fund is the only UK ambulance service charity to offer care to all ambulance personnel. 2011 is a very significant year for the ASBF as it marks 25 years since Norman Lakin had the personal vision and consideration for his fellow members of the ambulance services to set up the ASBF.

As well as marking its Silver Jubilee in 2011, the ASBF will pass a milestone of having provided help and support to one thousand people facing a personal crisis or hardship, the equivalent of one person every ten days. The assistance given to serving members and their families cover a variety of distressing circumstances. Many are the direct result of the stressful and demanding incidents service personnel are exposed to on a daily basis. Our sadness in regard to this statistic is that so many needed our help and in some cases the charity would have wanted to provide a higher level of assistance but shortage of funds prevented us doing so.