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Who Else Can Help?

Who Else Can Help? TBF offers a wide range of services to members and their dependants, but there have to be limits. We may need to ask you to speak to specialist advisors, or you may wish to contact them yourself anyway.

You may find the following links useful, though their inclusion here does not imply that we have any relationship with the body concerned, that we endorse them or can accept any responsibility if you decide to take their advice.

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For straightforward sickness cover, simple tax free savings plans and help with dental and optical bills, see the Transport Friendly Society website at www.tfs.uk.com - a perfect complement to the benefits offered by TBF.

Find out what discounts are available through the The Railway Employees Privilege Ticket Association (REPTA). See their website www.repta.co.uk.

OTHER CHARITIES

  • TBF can only help its members. Those who are not members may wish to contact The Association of Charity Officers (ACO) at www.aco.uk.net. They will advise on any possible source of help from other occupational benevolent funds. If you work in the public transport industry, you really should join TBF, though!
  • If you are elderly, or look after someone who is elderly, you may find the advice offered by Counsel and Care helpful. www.counselandcare.org.uk
  • Another useful site for the elderly is that of ageUK. www.ageuk.org.uk
  • If you are having trouble tracing your former occupational pension fund, you may contact the Pension Tracing Service at www.thepensionservice.gov.uk
  • If you are, or were, a member of the Transport for London Pension Fund (formerly known as the LRT Pension Fund), you’ll find their website at www.tflpensionfund.co.uk
  • If you are, or were, a member of the Railway Pension Fund, you’ll find the British Transport Pensioners Federation website at www.btpf.org.uk very useful as well, of course, as the Fund itself at www.railwaypensions.co.uk
  • If you would like information about any registered charity in England & Wales, the Charity Commission website can help. www.charity-commission.gov.uk
  • For specific information about benefits and issues relating to families, try the Child Poverty Action Group website at www.cpag.org.uk
  • Much of the convalescence for our members is provided by the Railway Convalescent Centre at Dawlish. More at www.rch.org.uk
  • Railways provide a good means of travel, but for children in some parts of the world they are where they live and eke out a precarious existence. Find out more at the Railway Children website www.railwaychildren.org.uk
  • If you or your partner served in the British forces, you may be able to seek help through SSAFA-Forces Help. While they have local offices the national site is at www.ssafa.org.uk

PUBLIC TRANSPORT RELATED

  • Members with Rail staff or railway privilege travel facilities should receive details of restrictions from their staff office. This information is also on the ATOC website www.atoc.org which also contains a lot of other useful information about this co-ordinating body for train operating companies.
  • Plan your rail journey at www.nationalrail.co.uk
  • Plan your bus journey at www.traveline.org.uk
  • Plan your journey within Greater London at www.tfl.gov.uk

TRADES UNIONS

PUBLIC SECTOR

  • The Department for Work and Pensions website is at www.dwp.gov.uk
  • The Citizen’s Advice Bureau websitecontains a wide range of help. It will also help you find the address of your nearest CAB. Find it at www.adviceguide.org.uk
  • The NHS Direct website contains a lot of useful information – including where to find an NHS dentist, common health problems and treatments. Find it at www.nhsdirect.nhs.uk

TRANSPORT OPERATORS

OTHER USEFUL LINKS 

  • To provide independence for those whose ability to move has been diminished, we have an arrangement with C F Hewerdine Ltd who supply aids such as wheelchairs, powerchairs and scooters. If you believe that you would benefit from such aid and are not eligible for this help from the state, you should contact the TBF office to set up an arrangement. TBF will pay for an appropriate mobility item to be supplied to you and for continuing service and maintenance. TBF are unable to help if you are in receipt of state benefit for mobility but are not using this benefit towards mobility as intended by the state. If you are a TBF member and already have a mobility item supplied by Hewerdine which requires servicing or maintenance, however, you can contact Hewerdine direct. Contact information is available through sales@hewerdine.co.uk or by telephone at 0800 3777869
  • If you’d like to find out more about our Data Protection registration (or anyone else’s), look at www.informationcommissioner.gov.uk - the website for the Information Commissioner.
  • Residents of South Hampshire and the Isle of Wight will find a wide range of information about local organizations on the Advice & Information page at the e.VOLve website www.e.volve.org.uk
  • If you are considering bankruptcy, threatened by it or already bankrupt, you may wish to contact the National Debtline at www.nationaldebtline.co.uk. Remember that TBF may also be able to help you manage your financial problems if you are a member.
  • The Road Operators’ Safety Council (ROSCO) aims to promote accident prevention measures and encourage safety on the road among owners and operators of road transport vehicles and their employees. For further information, please see their webiste at www.rosco-uk.org.
  • If you’re involved with a relevant organization which would appreciate a link from this page, please contact us and we’ll see what can be done.
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