The Harwell, Chilton and Culham Welfare Fund

The Fund is established to afford financial assistance to any necessitous current or former employees (including their immediate families) of the organisations listed below at the Harwell, Chilton or Culham sites: the United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority, UK Research and Innovation employees working at Rutherford Appleton Labratory, Public Health England, Magnox Ltd.Notes to eligibility:Employees of predecessor organisations (e.g. National Radiological Protection Board (NRPB), Council for the Central Laboratory of hte Research Councils (CCLRC), Research Sites Restoration Ltd (RSRL) are eligible for assistance.In the event of any of the organisations listed above being taken over by, or merged with, another organisation eligibility for assistance continues unchanged.Employees of the above organisations who have been transferred to a successor organisation (e.g. through contractorisation or divestment) which is carrying out part of the undertaking previously carried out by the above named organisations at Harwell, Chilton or Culham sites remain eligible for assistance. Eligibility is retained if primary successor organisations are subject to further change, such as further divestment. Such eligibility extends to employees recruited directly by the successor organisations while at the Harwell, Chilton or Culham sites.The Trustees of the Fund may exercise discretion beyond the strict eligibility criteria set out above if they conclude that an application for assistance falls withinthe spirit of the original intentions of the Fund.