Who we are

NAAFI employees are uniquely structured to support its purpose, with 3 dedicated and professional groups of staff:

148 Squadron, Expeditionary Force Institutes, Royal Logistic Corps, (EFI).

Managed by NAAFI; EFI are unique. Serving in uniform, EFI staff work alongside Forces personnel on deployment, where civilian contractors are not usually authorised to go.

Naval Canteen Services (NCS)

Also managed by NAAFI, NCS is an organisation dedicated to serving side by side with Forces personnel on Royal Navy ships around the world, again where civilian contractors are not usually authorised to go.

NAAFI civilians

The majority of these are dependants of Armed Forces personnel, and support permanent services in areas such as Germany, Northern Ireland and The Falkland Islands, many of whom volunteer for deployment when required.

Click on the People Profiles to learn more.

The MOD does not own NAAFI; NAAFI is a seperate legal and trading entity but it is accepted that, the MOD has the ability to exercise some control over NAAFI through the NAAFI Council.

The NAAFI Council is made up of Senior Officers of the three Armed Forces and the MOD. The NAAFI Board report to the NAAFI Council.

Mr Jeff Kaye

Army Representative

Jeff joined the Ministry Of Defence as a civil servant in 1977 and spent the next 23 years working in London for a variety of branches (mainly Navy) as part of SP Pol, working on Pay 2000 and the Chief Scientific Advisors Higher Level Budget as Deputy Budget Manager. In 2001 he moved to Wilton to take up a C2 post in the Finance Business Development Team responsible for future financial policy, before becoming the Deputy Change Manager on the Pay As You Dine team in 2003. Three years later Jeff moved to the Soft FM policy desk in the Army infrastructure Organisation before advancing to Change Manager at Headquarters Recruiting Group in 2007.

Commander Matt O'Grady

RN Representative

The Royal Navy representative to NAAFI is Commander Matt O'Grady.

Wing Commander A V Elliott-Mabey

RAF Representative

The Royal Air Force Representative to NAAFI is Wing Commander Tony Elliott-Mabey. He was commissioned into the Royal Air Force in 1986. Following Initial Officer Training he served in a variety of personnel, recruiting, works services and a few accounts appointments on a number of Royal Air Force stations (Coningsby, Rheindahlen, Halton, Innsworth) and lastly as a staff officer at Headquarters Personnel and Training Command. Senior staff officer appointments followed in the Headquarters Armed Forces Personnel Administration Agency, Headquarters Strike Command and Headquarters Air Command. During this time he also deployed on operations in support of the Southern Iraq no-fly zone and more recently on operations as part of Operation HERRICK, Afghanistan. In September 2010 he took up his current appointment as the NAAFI Representative.