No 98 Car supporting BEN the automotive
and related industries’ charity
BEN, is the automotive and related industries’ own charity. It’s your charity, the only one founded by people just like you, for people just like you. We provide care and support for anyone who work or has worked in these industries and this provision also extends to their dependants. BEN provides friendship, advice, emotional support and financial assistance to thousands of people living in their own homes throughout the UK and Ireland. We also run four nursing and residential centres across the country, providing a home to more than 350 people of different ages and needs.
We are not cause specific, which means our only guiding principle is to care for our colleagues who have found themselves in need. The work our dedicated welfare and care staff undertake is truly diverse.
BEN requires £11 million a year to maintain the services it provides, and more than half of this comes from individual and corporate support.
For any further information on BEN please call 01344 620191 or visit www.ben.org.uk
- BEN has a team of 10 fully trained professional Welfare Officers, who make contact with beneficiaries across the UK and Ireland.
- BEN offers advice, support, friendship and financial assistance to those suffering hardship and/or distress. Often when the funding needed is beyond BEN’s capabilities, we will get in touch with other charities to ask for their support.
- The Ben welfare team is also supported by a network of more than 100 specially trained volunteers (BENfriends).
- BEN helped 820 new cases during 2005/6
- BEN operates a confidential national emergency helpline –01344 876770.
- BEN runs four nursing and residential centres, which are home to more than 350 people of various needs and ages – Lynwood near Ascot, Town Thorns near Rugby, Alexandra House in Southport and Birch Hill in Berwick-upon-Tweed.
- BEN operates a day care centre. Arthur Wilson House in Coventry, which provides a safe and comfortable place where elderly relatives can be cared for during the day while their families go to work.
It costs more than £11million a year to maintain our level of care, without making any improvements.
BEN does not receive state or lottery funding.
Tony Hurdle: Driver Car No 98
