Help us to save lives and reduce injuries
Leaving a legacy or making a donation to RoSPA
If you have ever been the victim of an accident or experienced the impact of an accident on individuals and families, you will appreciate the importance of safety. You will want to help us in our work to prevent accidents and the anguish and waste which they cause.
- Safety achievements
- Current campaigns
- Legacies and how they can help
- Creating a safer future
- Donations
Saving lives and reducing injuries
Established 90 years ago, RoSPA is the UK’s best-known safety charity with a long history of working to save lives and reduce injuries in all walks of life. Our patron is Her Majesty the Queen.
Our aim
Our aim is to lead the way in safety and accident prevention. We are governed by a board of non-executive trustees and have about 125 staff, most based at our head office in Edgbaston Park in Birmingham but with other colleagues located in Cardiff, Edinburgh and Belfast. We are organised into teams concerned with safety in the home, on the road, at work, in water and leisure activities and in the active promotion of safety education. In each of these five areas we are supported by subscribing member organisations and we are advised by specialist committees made up of experts and stakeholder representatives.
Skills and knowledge
By concentrating this unique range of skills and knowledge we work to reduce the toll of death and injury due to accidents – over 10,000 lives are lost every year in the UK and there are over 300,00 serious injuries.
Because of RoSPA’s influence hundreds of thousands of people are alive and living uninjured today. But equally many others are dying needlessly and their lives (and the lives of their friends and families) are being blighted because our influence is still not strong enough. Accidents affect disproportionately the most vulnerable members of our society: the young, the old and those from disadvantaged backgrounds.
Campaigns and services
Our primary purpose is to campaign to improve accident prevention by securing higher safety standards and by promoting new ideas and good practice. We are also a major provider of safety services such as training, consultancy advice and educational products and we provide support to local networks, organise events and make awards to recognise good practice.
Safety achievements
Some of our major safety achievements include:
- Seatbelts: In 1983, after 21 years of campaigning by RoSPA, seatbelt legislation was brought into effect, a measure that has saved thousands of lives every year since then.
- Moulded plugs: RoSPA campaigned successfully to get all new electrical products supplied with factory fitted moulded plugs.
- The Tufty Club: This scheme helped a whole generation of school children to keep safe when crossing the road.
- Cyclist training: RoSPA’s early work led to the national system of cyclists’ training through the Cycling Proficiency Test.
- Managing occupational road risk (MORR): Between 800 and 1,000 people die in work related road accidents. Over the last ten years we have campaigned successfully to get this issue managed as part of mainstream health and safety at work.
Current campaigns
Here are further examples of some of our current campaigns
- LASER (Learning about Safety by Experiencing Risk): Learning About Safety by Experiencing Risk (LASER) is a powerful interactive approach to safety education involving interactive schemes for school children to learn about safety and the prevention of injury in realistic settings. Youngsters are able to learn how to deal with hazards by working in small groups in a controlled and supervised environment. They are taught safety skills through role playing. This increases knowledge, changes attitude and develops skills, which can be applied in real life situations.
- Young Drivers: We are campaigning for a new, staged approach to the driving test and we are working with parents and employers to help young drivers to be safe. RoSPA has produced toolkits, websites and information for young people and parents and developed a unique Parents and Young Driver Agreement.
Thermostatic Mixing Valves (TMVs): A key RoSPA campaign is to save vulnerable children and older people from the horrific burns that scalding water can inflict. Over 6,500 children go to hospital with a scald injury every year; the sad fact is that many of these injuries are easily preventable. RoSPA is campaigning for all new homes to be fitted with a simple yet effective device that will maintain the water temperature at a safe level.
- Lighter evenings: We want the Government to change Britain’s timekeeping to Single/Double British Summertime (SDST) so that during winter, time would be GMT+1 hour and during summer, time would be GMT+2 hours. This would create lighter evenings all year round and result in around 100 fewer people being killed annually on our roads.
- Safety Education in Schools: RoSPA is working to get safety and risk education fully embedded in the Personal, Social and Health Education in schools and to ensure risk becomes an established part of the National Curriculum.
- Small Firms: Our National Occupational Safety and health Committee are undertaking a unique ground-breaking Inquiry into all the forms of help and assistance that are available to support better H&S in small firms.
Legacies and how they can help
We need extra income to help us do even more of this pioneering work. Leaving a legacy would cost you nothing now but would enable us to achieve much in the future. By pledging a legacy when you have your will drawn up or by making a codicil to an existing will, you would be helping us to plan our finances for the future.
A legacy can take the form of:
- a Pecuniary Bequest which is a named sum of money;
- a Residuary Bequest which is the remainder of your estate once specific elements have been shared out; or
- a Specific Bequest which is a named item such as a piece or jewellery or some other valuable personal possession.
You can of course, leave a combination of bequests. And legacies can range from large amounts to small ones.
By leaving a bequest to RoSPA you will leave a long-term legacy to all those who benefit from our work. Funding for our campaigning activities amounts on average to over £1.5 million per year. With additional resources we could accomplish much more.
Trustees
RoSPA’s Board of Trustees are responsible for ensuring that your bequest is managed in accordance with your wishes and is used wisely to promote safety and accident prevention.
Creating a safer future
You may have been involved in an accident at some stage in your life or know someone close to you who was injured and who could have been saved had simple prevention measures been taken. Prevention is hardly ever high profile but if you have had personal experience of the misery and waste that result from senseless accidents you know just how important it is.
By making a legacy you can be sure that many people will benefit from a safer future even though they may not always be aware of it.
Things your legacy could help us fund
Here are just a few things we want to achieve with your support:
- a nationwide network of LASER centres;
- a safety passport scheme for young workers;
- a national incentive and recognition scheme for all young drivers;
- research to monitor accident trends and causes;
- more effective safety education in all schools
- home safety awareness programmes for disadvantaged families; and
- projects to build health and safety into overseas development work.
Donations
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We are always grateful to receive donations. Donations can go into special project funds, for example to support research, campaigns or specific kinds of awareness raising or community outreach work. We will always endeavour to respect people’s wishes as to how their donations are spent.
If at the time of making a donation you are a UK taxpayer please sign a gift aid form so that we can reclaim the tax, enhancing your donation by 28p for every £1 given.
Cheques should be made payable to ROSPA or you can donate online here.
For further information please contact RoSPA’s Chief Executive Tom Mullarkey MBE by Email at tmullarkey@rospa.com or by telephone on 0121 248 2002.
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RoSPA is a registered charity: Registered Charity No: 207823 Patron: Her Majesty the Queen RoSPA Head Office: Edgbaston Park, 353 Bristol Road, Edgbaston, Birmingham B5 7ST, UK |
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