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We provide lifelong support to serving and ex-serving personnel and their families.
8am to 8pm, 7 days a week
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Your donation helps us to provide lifelong support to serving and ex-serving personnel and their families.
£70 could help fund a recovery course place at our battle back centre.
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In RBL’s centenary year, we are firmly focused on our future. By building on a century of work we’ll make sure we are a charity fit for the next 100.
Our work with Cadbury to commemorate the centenary of the First World War won an award for Best Fundraising Campaign.
In our centenary year, we are bringing to life your personal stories, memories and charitable work so that we can tell the story of the RBL last 100 years.
On 15 May 2021 join us online as we celebrate our centenary through a series of live events including a livestream from the Cenotaph.
In our Centenary year we look at how we have supported ex-Servicemen into work for the last 100 years, and how we continue to support them today.
Our magazine is free for all members and includes the latest news from branches, plus in-depth stories about our services and the people we support.
To mark our 100th birthday, we launched the Reward and Recognition scheme to recognise our amazing RBL people and their significant contributions to our work.
Red poppies have been worn as a show of support for the Armed Forces community since 1921. Today the Poppy remains as the symbol of Remembrance at the heart of our Poppy Appeal.
Join in to mark our 100th anniversary by adding a message of support for the Armed Forces community on our 100 Years of Support online message board.
Armed Forces Day is a chance for us all to thank our serving troops, veterans, reservists, cadets, and their families for all they do to keep us safe.
As RBL’s Director of Music, David Cole OBE, directs our Central Band and is also the musical director of the annual Festival of Remembrance.
Our staff, members and volunteers have been at the heart of RBL for 100 years. Find out more about our unsung heroes who work tirelessly for their communities.
Read the Telling Our Story FAQs to find out more about how we plan to unearth and share the unique experience of the Legion's past and look to its future Legacy.
The welfare and wellbeing of the Armed Forces has been at the heart of RBL since our inception in 1921. One of our earliest interventions saw us create a dedicated hospital and village to support ex-serving personnel suffering from tuberculosis after the First World War.
Over 100 years many famous faces have joined us in honouring and supporting those who protect our way of life, from the Royal Family to stars of the stage and screen.
RBL branches sit at the heart of communities and today there are approximately 2,500 across the UK. Discover the stories behind our branches.
