Formerly known as the SSAFA Forces Help, SSAFA is a British based charitable institution that is set up to help those former and serving members of the United Kingdom British Armed Forces. They also extend their assistance to the families and dependents of these members.

It was James Gildea, who founded this organization initially as the Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Families Association in 1885. In 1919, the organization became a charitable group which was renamed to Soldiers’, Saolors’ and ...