Give a little more with Gift Aid.

Now that the Fund has registered charity status, we are eligible to claim Gift Aid on all your subscriptions to the Fund. Claiming Gift Aid means that for every £2 you donate to us each month, we can claim an additional 50p back from HMRC. Every little bit more that we can raise can go back to help us support our members in times of need.

To enable us to claim Gift Aid on your monthly subscriptions, all you need do is complete our Membership Form, which you can find here, and send it back to us at secretary@glospolbenfund.org.

Thank you for helping us help you!

Our Charity Status

The Committee of the Gloucestershire Constabulary Benevolent Fund is pleased to announce that at a public Extraordinary General Meeting held on 28th June, the proposal to seek registered charity status for the Fund was approved by Fund members.

Following this vote of approval, the Committee has continued its work to to achieved charity status. At the Annual General Meeting of the Fund on 12th October a new Charity Commission governed constitution was adopted and the Fund is now officially a registered charity. Details of the that Constitution can be found on the site here and details of our registration with The Charity Commission can be found here.

As the Fund committee members change status to become Trustees of this new charity, we would like to take this opportunity to thank all the members who have contributed to the Fund over the years, and look forward to a future providing even more support to our serving and retired officers

EGM Notice

The Gloucestershire Benevolent Fund will be holding an Extraordinary General Meeting to vote on the conversion of the Fund to a Registered Charity.

The meeting will convene at 1900hrs Wednesday 28th June 2023 and will be held at Churchdown Community Centre, Parton Road, Churchdown, GL3 2JH. The formal notice of that EGM can be found here

Further documentation for this meeting can be found on our Documents page

We are changing!

The Gloucestershire Constabulary Benevolent Fund (the Ben Fund) was established many years ago to provide support to serving and retired officers in times of need. Supported almost entirely by subscriptions from its members, the Fund affords its members critical and often much needed support in time of their greatest need and can assist in supporting officers’ wellbeing at critical moments in their career and life story.

The Fund has operated for many years as a Trust, run by a committee made up of serving and retired officers, who give up their time to help run this much needed resource.

Over recent years it has become clear to the committee that way in which the Fund operates and how it is governed, has long been due an overhaul.

To this end, members of the committee have been working towards the process of converting the Fund to hold Registered Charity status. This will mean many things for the Fund, primarily that it will fall under the governance and oversight of the Charities Commission. This will give the Fund a firmer legal foundation and with that will come increased oversight and accountability, and importantly transparency to it’s members.

It will also mean that as a Charity, the Fund will be able to benefit from Gift Aid and will be able to use its new status to find new ways to support you, it’s members. It will also allow us, in due course, to expand membership of the Fund to include police staff and Special Constables.

As part of the journey to becoming a Charity, the committee are required to put the proposal to a formal Extraordinary General Meeting. If you are a subscribing member to the Fund then you are entitled to attend that meeting – to hear more about what becoming a Charity means and to ask questions of the committee, and to vote on the proposal.

The Benevolent Fund EGM will be held at 7pm (on Wednesday 28th June at Churchdown Community Centre.

If you’d like to attend, I’d be grateful if you’d let me know at secretary@glospolbenfund.org so that we can manage the number of attendees.

Steve James

Secretary, Gloucestershire Constabulary Benevolent Fund

Chair, Gloucestershire Police Federation.