Edward Rawlinson. A hero in need.

For as long as 5 years, former Royal Marine and Tank Regiment veteran Eddie Rawlinson relied on an individual caseworker to look after his intimate needs (Friday 12 September 2008). This man, one of the countless caseworkers who dedicated their own private time to look after the needs of veterans, was summarily dismissed from the ranks of Ssafa. Political machinations between an ineffectual regional office at Fulwood Barracks, and the do-er out in the community culminated in the case worker taking the so-called charity to the Crown Court and winning.
The caseworker was dissatisfied with running of Ssafa Lancashire and the complete ineffectiveness of Ssafa Central in London. Letters to Gen Sir Robin Ross - the boss man of Ssafa - went unanswered. What Central Office tried to do was to form an internal inquiry led by the very people the caseworker was complaining against. They insulted his intelligence and threatened him with legal action from a high powered firm of solicitors in Lincolns Inn, and even had a Justice of the Peace demand that he attended a kangaroo court without any reference to the remit under which the so-called inquiry would sit.
With sour attitudes emanating from both Fulwood Barracks and Ssafa Central Office, Ssafa Lancashire has fallen into sinecure. The only statement that Central Office could come up with was that the people in Fulwood Barracks were experienced caseworkers. The facts do not substantiate the claim when the mass majority of casework was undertaken by two individual caseworkers, and their contribution monthly possibly outdid the entire lifetime contribution of the Fulwood barracks brigade.
Had Eddie Rawlinson still had a close liaison with a Ssafa caseworker of the calibre of his Blackpool mentor, this disgraceful situation probably would already been resolved.
Is it not time that the Charities Commission looked into the abysmal affairs at Fulwood, and that former Royal Marine Gen Sir Robin Ross remembered that he too was also a BOOTNECK?