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A Lifeline of Friendship with CSRF Housebound and with no access to the internet, retired civil servant Valerie relies on a landline and letterbox to stay connected to the outside…

Volunteering for CSRF and Connecting Generations From activity groups to befriender matching, the Civil Service Retirement Fellowship (CSRF) brings connection and community to retired civil servants.  To tell you more…

More Than Befriending: A Lifelong Friendship through CSRF Here at the Civil Service Retirement Fellowship (CSRF), we put friendship first. Just ask Louise and Olive. Today, after many years of…

 A Journey From Teacher to Chair of the CSRF Local Activity Group As well as running befriending services, the Civil Service Retirement Fellowship (CSRF) brings retired civil servants together through…

A Career Defined by Service and Support Leaving school at age 14 in 1945, Trudy Thomas started work at a lawyer’s office and then at the post office, which she…

A Life of Service, Advocacy, and Volunteering Olive was born in Guyana, a former British colony, and moved to the UK on 15 April 1960, at the age of 19,…

Experience within the Civil Service working in 16 different countries Mike Hammond was born in Hampshire, however because of his father’s time in the services he travelled a lot, spending…

The little known department called Export Credits Guarantee Michael Le Good became a civil servant after nine years in computer programming. Needing a job, Michael spotted an advertisement for statisticians…

Marjory’s journey started from her first post within the civil service as a CA in the Ministry of Health Marjory became a civil servant after leaving school, on the advice…

 A Civil Service Photography Pioneer Lynn Patrick studied photography at Kitson College of Technology, Leeds, in the early seventies. Photography at this time was very male dominated, she was one…