National FEPOW Fellowship Welfare Remembrance Association

NFFWRA is the national association providing practical help and assistance to former FEPOWs (Far East Prisoners of War) their wives and widows.

Our Association can assist with arranging home adaptations and mobility equipment for former FEPOWs, their wives or widows and arrange financial payments for hospital stays, Nursing Home Grants, Information about Reunions (twice a year) and Reunion Grants plus a transport grant to such Reunions.


NEWS UPDATES

A full, illustrated report of the November 2025 Far East POW Pilgrimage to Singapore and Thailand is now available. Click here for more details of our VJ80 activities and to download the report.

IMPORTANT NOTICE CONCERNING MEMBERSHIP SUBSCRIPTIONS

Further to a decision made at the AGM November 2024:

  • The Annual Associate Membership Subscription (friends and relatives of FEPOW) is no longer applicable. For those currently on our Associate Membership list you will continue to receive news of our events and meetings unless we hear to the contrary. 
  • If you would like to be added to our Associate Membership list to receive news of our events and activities, please complete the form on our Contact Us page.

OUR PURPOSES

‘To keep going the Spirit that kept them going’ of the Far East Prisoners of War imprisoned by the Japanese during the hostilities of 1941 – 1945.

To look after the living FEPOWs by remaining in close contact with, and being a point of contact for all individual FEPOWs, spouses and widows.

Where reference is made to FEPOWs, this also includes civilian internees.

To assist the Royal British Legion with the administration of welfare other than grants, to arrange social events, including reunions, to assist in arranging the Royal British Legion holiday breaks and to advise and embrace the existing FEPOW Clubs and Associations in order to assist when called upon.

To continue to assist the named representative with the administration of the Field of Remembrance at Westminster and to take on the responsibility of the poppy planting when there are no more actual FEPOWs with us, as recorded by the late Fred Ryall, MBE, former Vice President of N.F.F.C.A and President of the London Club and as agreed by the Royal British Legion Poppy Factory.


Making a Donation

Please make a gift to the National FEPOW Fellowship Welfare Remembrance Association and help former FEPOWs, their wives and widows in need.

To make your donation, please complete the form below and return it to:

NFFWRA Treasurer, Mrs Lynda Burrows, 10 Heath Crescent, Norwich, Norfolk, NR6 6XD

Title: Name: 
Address:  
Postcode: 
Contact Telephone Number: 
Mobile Number: 
Email Address: 

I would like to make a gift of: £……………

Please make cheques payable to: N.F.F.W.R.A.  (National FEPOW Fellowship Welfare/Remembrance Association)

Date:

Signature:

We really value your support and wish you to know that all donations received go towards providing support for FEPOWs, wives and widows in need.

Your details are not forwarded to any other organisations and remain confidential to the NFFWRA Executive.