•To help serving and retired Regular and Auxiliary Coastguards and their widows, orphans and dependents who are suffering from need, hardship and distress or illness, ill health or injury.

•To help widows, orphans and others who are suffering from need, hardship and distress or illness, ill health or injury as a consequence of having helped or tried to help those in peril on the seas or foreshores or as a result of marine disaster.

•To help in particular people who are without parents or other near relatives.

For more information please contact Stuart Arundel, National Chairman