After the war, the Soldiers’ Home Association and the Finnish Defence Forces held negotiations, the end result of which was a decision by the Defence Command: only associations belonging to the Finnish Soldiers’ Home Association were allowed to maintain s oldiers’homes or canteens in areas controlled by the Finnish Defence Forces.

In 1951, the name of the association was changed to Sotilaskotiliitto – Soldathemsförbundet ry. For almost the entire decade, the association was chaired by Aune Brotherus. His presidency and the entire 1950s were marked by attitudes in which soldiers’ home work or other activities related to national defence were not appreciated. In her 75th birthday interview, Brotherus stated that at that time “you had to be like a duck shaking the water off its back and still swimming.”

From the beginning of its history until 1955, the Soldiers’ Home Association operated in premises rented from the Helsinki Soldiers’ Home Association at Kasarmikatu 28 and for a couple of years at Kasarmikatu 41, until it finally got its own premises in a property called Simonlinna on Simonkatu in Helsinki in 1957. In the same premises, the associations’s office is still located today.

In 1959, new rules of the association were introduced, which sought to break away from capital-centricity by, for example, having to elect a representative from each county that had a local member association of the Soldiers’ Home Association. At the same time, Lyyli Kairamo, a representative of the Hämeenlinna Soldiers’ Home Association, who advocated for the rule change, was elected as the first member of the associations’s board from outside the Helsinki metropolitan area.

General of the Infantry K. A. Heiskanen, who left his post as Commander of the Finnish Defence Forces at the end of the decade, thanked the Sisters of the Soldiers’ Home when leaving his position: “The Soldiers’ Home has become an inseparable part of the Finnish Defence Establishment, and its work has been taken for granted so much that the praise and public recognition it deserves has often been forgotten. However, it is precisely in the clarity and altruism of the task it has set itself – in which the pursuit of publicity has no place – that has been the strength of the Soldiers’ Home Association, which has helped it to achieve its goal through its own actions – to create a more comfortable lounge than the barracks, where conscripts can spend their free time within the limits of their financial possibilities and with constructive hobbies.”