# Who will look after fundraisers in distress?

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2007/02/12/who-will-look-after-fundraisers-distress/
- Published: 2007-02-12T12:36:25+00:00
- Author: Howard Lake

**Charity staff can spend a lifetime working to help others, often on low salaries
and few employment benefits compared to the private sector. But what happens to 
a fundraiser or other charity employee who is facing financial distress? Who will
fundraise for the fundraisers?**

Fortunately, like other professions, the charity sector has its own benevolent fund.
The [Charity Employees Benevolent Fund](http://www.cebf.org.uk) was set up to provide
advice and support for charity employees past and present and their families.

The Fund has a big remit. Over 560,000 people work in charities: the Fund is open
not just to them but to anyone who has ever been employed by a charity.

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Each request for help “will be assessed on its own merits”, say the Fund, and it
can help with:

 * payments for specific purposes to meet urgent needs e.g. essential household 
   items, disability adaptations and equipment
 * guidance on other sources of funds that might be more appropriate to the applicant’s
   needs
 * individually tailored advice and information

While the Fund is likely to be the last charity using face-to-face techniques on
the street – can you imagine the public’s reaction to fundraisers fundraising for
fundraisers? – it does need funds to meet its needs.

 * **[Victim Support donates to the Charity Employees Benevolent Fund](https://fundraising.co.uk/2012/04/05/victim-support-donates-charity-employees-benevolent-fund/)(
   5 April 2012)
 * **[thankQ donates CRM system to the Charity Employees Benevolent Fund](https://fundraising.co.uk/2011/12/11/thankq-donates-crm-system-charity-employees-benevolent-fund/)(
   11 December 2011)
 * **[Charity sector’s own staff benevolent fund to close](https://fundraising.co.uk/2012/07/30/charity-sector039s-own-staff-benevolent-fund-close/)(
   30 July 2012)**