President's Appeal
Our President, Dame Deidre Hine, has written an appeal that provides a practical opportunity to help colleagues and their families in need.
Dear Colleague
I am writing in this, our Anniversary year, to invite you to celebrate with us 175 years of the provision of help to doctors and their families at times of serious need.
We know that this, our traditional role, is respected and valued by the profession, especially for the integrity and compassion with which our staff administer our funds.
Despite our great age however, we are neither backward looking nor complacent, and are developing a raft of new initiatives. The most exciting and topical of these is our proposal to extend our help to medical students who find themselves in exceptional and unexpected financial hardship where this would jeopardise their chances of completing their course to the point of qualification.
Of course this requires us to raise more money to combine both our established and our new services to the profession. I noted in last year’s appeal that there are around 220,000 doctors on the medical register. If each of these were to celebrate our 175th Anniversary by making a donation, we would be able to extend our services to all the eligible, often tragic, applications that we receive.
Please consider giving us a special donation this year or supporting us as a regular donor and I ask you to be as generous as possible.
With every good wish for 2012
Dame Deirdre Hine DBE FFPH FRCP
To donate to the President's Appeal, go to our 175th anniversary appeal site. Or to learn more about how you can help the RMBF, visit the 'how you can help' section of our website.