Supporting our older veterans during Covid-19
Awarded a grant of £20,000 from the Veterans Should Not Be Forgotten programme, we caught up with Age UK Oldham, to find out more about the impact this funding is already having.
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Categories: Covid 19, Funds, Impact, Programme news, Projects we've funded, Uncategorized, Veterans' mental health and wellbeing
Awarded a grant of £20,000 from the Veterans Should Not Be Forgotten programme, we caught up with Age UK Oldham, to find out more about the impact this funding is already having.
Read MoreType: News
Categories: Funds, Impact, Programme news, Projects we've funded, Uncategorised, Veterans' mental health and wellbeing
The Veterans Should Not Be Forgotten programme was launched with funding from HM Treasury, to support vulnerable veterans currently experiencing reduced social contact.
The Veterans Should Not Be Forgotten programme was launched with funding from HM Treasury, to support vulnerable veterans currently experiencing reduced social contact.
Type: News
Categories: Armed Forces Covenant Local Grants, Consultation, Impact, New programmes, Uncategorized
The Trust ran an open consultation earlier this year, to help inform our funding programmes for 2020 and beyond. We received our biggest response yet from individuals from the Forces community.
Read MoreFollowing an announcement on 11 March 2020 by the Chancellor of the Exchequer, an additional £10M of funding has been awarded to the Trust to distribute as grants to support veterans’ mental health and wellbeing. The Trust is privileged to…
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Categories: Funds, Impact, Programme news, Projects we've funded, Uncategorized, Veterans' Community Centres Programme
The final round of awards have been made under the Veterans’ Community Centres programme, this time including larger projects awarded sums of up to £150,000. In our biggest round yet, 46 refurbishment projects were supported from Shetland in the North,…
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Categories: Carers and Families, Forces families, Funds, Impact, Programme news, Projects we've funded, Removing Barriers to Family Life, Uncategorised, Uncategorized
The Removing Barriers to Family Life programme has made 60 awards totalling just over £7M to support Armed Forces families. Awards were made at two levels, medium grants of £30k to £100k and large grants of up to £300k or…
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Categories: Armed Forces Covenant Local Grants, Carers and Families, Consultation, Forces families, Funds, Impact, New programmes, Programme news, Projects we've funded, Uncategorised, Uncategorized
With more than 650 awards over the past five years, the Armed Forces Covenant: Local Grants programme will end after the final round of awards are made this month. At our recent Breakfast Seminar event to look at the Trust…
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Categories: Armed Forces Covenant Local Grants, Funds, Impact, Programme news, Projects we've funded, Uncategorised, Uncategorized
Community integration and local service delivery can take many forms, but not many can claim to be quite as yummy as the latest award from the Armed Forces Covenant Fund Trust: Local Grants programme! With £19,622 of funding, the Church…
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Categories: Armed Forces Covenant Local Grants, Consultation, Forces families, Funds, Impact, New programmes, Programme news, Uncategorised, Uncategorized
The Armed Forces Covenant: Local Grants programme has successfully supported hundreds of projects over the past five years, strengthening our Armed Forces community both in terms of integration and delivery of local services. It’s now time for us to consider…
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Categories: Armed Forces Covenant Local Grants, Forces families, Funds, Impact, Programme news, Projects we've funded, Uncategorized
Lincolnshire County Council were awarded £20,000 from our Armed Forces Covenant Local Grants programme to deliver the year-long ‘Wings to the Past’ project, designed to bring RAF personnel and their families, and the wider community together to research, investigate, and…
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