Get Involved
Every year volunteers bring their energy, skills and time to the Branch, and it is only because of them that we can do what we do.
We need people for home and hospital visits, for driving veterans to appointments and events, for Remembrance Sunday and the services through the year, and for the administration behind all of it. Cadet units, youth groups, corporate teams and individuals are all welcome. No service background is required.
The work that matters most is the least dramatic: an hour a month, reliably, with the same veteran, so that someone knows his name and notices when something changes.
Volunteering here means joining a community, not filling a rota. Write to enquiry@rbl.hk.
Poppy Appeal collectors and collection boxes are covered under the Poppy Appeal.The needs of a veteran in his eighties are rarely only medical. They are a will that was never written, a bank that has closed its branch and moved everything to an app, a phone call from someone claiming to be from the police, a pension that is difficult to claim from eight thousand miles away. Professional time, given occasionally, closes gaps that money cannot.
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Medicine and nursing. Nurses to attend our social events, as one does already, so that people who would not otherwise leave the flat are able to come. Doctors and nurses for home and hospital visits alongside our welfare team. Specialists in geriatric medicine, dementia and palliative care, audiology, ophthalmology, dentistry and physiotherapy, for occasional advice or to see a patient. Guidance to the Welfare Committee on the medical cases that come before it.
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Law. Wills and probate, enduring powers of attorney, tenancy and estate matters, and advice to families after a death. Many of the veterans we support have no will and nothing in place for the day they can no longer decide for themselves.
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Money and banking. Help with digital banking and branch closures, MPF and ORSO questions, UK State Pension and other overseas entitlements, and plain budgeting for people living on very little.
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Technology. Setting up a phone or tablet so that a veteran can be reached—and, just as important, teaching people to recognise the calls, messages and investment approaches that are aimed squarely at the elderly in this city.
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Language. Cantonese and Nepali speakers across all of the above, for our locally enlisted and Gurkha veterans and their families.
We will ask to see current registration or professional standing where the work requires it. Beyond that, tell us what you can give — an afternoon a quarter is worth having.
Write to enquiry@rbl.hk marked Professional volunteer.
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Organisations can make a difference in ways money alone cannot. Professional services, pro bono, legal, accountancy, translation, IT, insurance.
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Transport: vehicles and drivers for hospital runs, funerals, and getting people to Remembrance Sunday and the annual dinner.
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Healthcare: clinics, hospitals and insurers able to offer access, screening or subsidised treatment.
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Employment and training: jobs, apprenticeships and mentoring, particularly for the younger Gurkha and locally enlisted community.
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Venues and hospitality: space for events, and support for the annual dinner, they love raffle prizes
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Collection boxes and Flag Day teams: host a box, or put a team on the street.
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Partnership and sponsorship: back the Poppy Appeal, a welfare programme, or a specific piece of work.
Tell us what you have rather than what you think we want. The most useful offers we receive are rarely the ones we asked for. Submit the form below, or write to enquiry@rbl.hk.
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Get Involved
Contact
Phone: (852) 2544 6270
Fax: (852) 2543 4287
Emergency: (852) 9523 3098
Email: enquiry@rbl.hk
Website: www.rbl.hk
Postal Address: Hong Kong G.P.O Box 4747