Our history

Founded in 1902 to provide sickness benefits for Commercial Travellers and their families, British Friendly have over a century of experience of "being there when our members need us most". Based in Bedford, British Friendly is one of the larger UK Friendly Societies with nearly £100m in assets. As a mutual we exist solely for the benefit of more than 14,000 members and have no shareholders to whom we need to pay dividends. Since 2002 we have also managed the British Airways Benefit Fund.