About SWBT
We are the UK’s only charity dedicated to helping social workers when times are difficult. And now times are very...
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Social Workers' Benevolent Trust
Help and Advice
If you are experiencing financial hardship and want to see whether we can help please read the information below and...
Positive action where it's most needed
The Social Workers' Benevolent Trust offers financial help to social workers and their dependents in times of hardship, for example when experiencing sickness, bereavement, family difficulties or sudden catastrophe. The trustees consider grants at their bi-monthly meetings, and applicants need to complete an application form if they wish to be considered for a grant.
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In this post-Covid world, we feel the strain on social work
Working from home, the cost of living crisis and rising need among service users has put social workers under intolerable...
SWBT – Welcoming more applications from Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales
The Trustees of the Social Workers Benevolent Trust have noted some discrepancies in applications from Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland....
More social workers facing financial hardship due to debt or illness
More practising social workers are seeking financial aid from charity after facing hardship due to spiralling debts or illness
The cost of not promoting the health and wellbeing of social workers
Care giving depends on how we support the care givers, says Mike Bush
Social Workers Changing Times
Social workers have seen changes to the way they work since the beginning of the Covid 19 Pandemic.
An Archive Journey
Where do the SWBT application forms, additional paperwork from applicants and correspondence get stored?
Social Workers’ Benevolent Trust tells of social workers facing bankruptcy
Social workers are increasingly reporting hardships such as mental health problems, financial difficulties, marital breakdown and even bankruptcy.
Proud to have been a Trustee
One the SWBT’s Co-Chairs, Su, made an effort to establish how long I’d been a Trustee. I hadn’t been keeping...
SWBT establishes Emergency Relief for internationally qualified Social Workers
SWBT Trustees are pleased to announce that they can now pay Emergency Relief to internationally qualified Social Workers and their...
A welcome appreciation of Social Workers and SWBT
In June the SWBT Trustees were excited to receive a most generous grant from the Civil Service Insurance Society Charity...
