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Poppy Appeal

  • The Poppy Appeal has run every year since 1921 — the year the Legion was founded, and the year this Branch registered in Hong Kong. The poppy itself comes from the battlefields of the First World War, where it grew over churned ground nothing else would hold, and from John McCrae's lines written at Ypres in 1915.

    Here, the appeal runs through the weeks to Remembrance Sunday. Poppies are given in return for a donation — by volunteers, in shops, and online. What is raised in Hong Kong is spent on Hong Kong's veterans and their families.

  • Every dollar raised in Hong Kong is spent on Hong Kong's veterans and their families. We are in contact with more than a thousand of them, and we believe there may be as many as four thousand in Hong Kong. That gap is the other reason this appeal matters: some of the people who need us most have not yet been found. Most of those we do reach are over eighty, and most of what we do for them is unglamorous and immediate.

     

    • Grants.Regular support where income does not meet need, and one-off grants in an emergency.

    • Care. Nursing support at home, help reaching medical appointments, and specialist care for those living with dementia.

    • Welfare visits. Someone at the door, regularly, for men and women who might otherwise go a week without a conversation.

    • Getting people out. Subsidised lunches and happy hours, with transport arranged and a nurse in attendance.

    • Bursaries. Education support through the Branch's bursary scheme.

    • The record. The archive, the war graves, Remembrance Sunday, and the research that keeps Hong Kong's war service from being forgotten.
       

    ​We work alongside the Social Welfare Department and Caritas so that every source of help available to a veteran is used, not only ours.

  • Use the Poppy Map - it shows every place in Hong Kong where a poppy can be had, updated through the Appeal.

    Otherwise: from our collectors on the street during the Appeal, from collection boxes in shops, offices, schools and clubs across the territory, at the veterans' clubhouses, and online. There is no fixed price. A poppy is given in return for whatever you choose to give.

    Wearing one is an act of remembrance. It is also, in Hong Kong, the most visible thing you can do for veterans who are otherwise largely invisible in this city.

  • The Appeal runs on volunteers. There is a job for almost anyone:
     

    • Collect on the street during our Flag Day and through the Appeal period.

    • Host a collection box in your office, school, shop, club or mess.

    • Act as an area organiser, coordinating collectors and boxes in your district.

    • Help at Remembrance Sunday and the Appeal's events.

    • Tell people. Share the Appeal, and get your colleagues wearing a poppy.


    Street collection in Hong Kong is conducted under permit, so collectors are briefed and registered before the day. Write to poppy-officery@rbl.hk and we will fit you to a slot.

  • Boxes are the backbone of the Appeal and cost you nothing but a comer of a reception desk. We deliver the box, collect it at the end of the Appeal, count it under proper controls and send you the total.

    Offices, schools, clubs, restaurants, hotels and shops all take them. Write to poppy-officer@rbl.hk and tell us where you are, by Friday 25th September.

  • Wreaths are laid at the Cenotaph in Central on Remembrance Sunday, and at services through the year. Individuals, regimental associations, companies, schools and consulates are all represented.

    Places are limited and the order of laying is set in advance, so requests close well before the day. Write to enquiry@rbl.hk with the name to be represented. Wreathes are HK$470

  • Every dollar given to the Hong Kong Poppy Appeal is spent on veterans in Hong Kong.

    It funds emergency grants when money runs out, nursing support at home, help getting to medical appointments, specialist care for those living with dementia, welfare visits to people who might otherwise go a week without a conversation, and the transport that gets an eighty-five-year-old out of his flat and back among his own.

    We are in contact with more than a thousand veterans here and believe there may be as many as four thousand in Hong Kong. Giving funds the work- and helps us find the rest.

  • 1. PayMe — scan the code below.

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    2. Payment from Hong Kong or overseas can be made via Bank Transfer
     

    Bank details: 

    A/C Name: The Royal British Legion (Hong Kong & China Branch)

    A/C No.: 002-205466-004

    Branch: HSBC Central Building Branch, Hong Kong

    SWIFT: HSBCHKHHHKH

     

    Please use your phone number as the reference.

    Please kindly share the donation proof once arranged for us to provide the donation receipt for tax deduction.

Contact

Phone: (852) 2544 6270

Fax: (852) 2543 4287

Emergency: (852) 9523 3098

Email: enquiry@rbl.hk

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Website: www.rbl.hk

Postal Address: Hong Kong G.P.O Box 4747

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