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Date published: 26 Mar 2024

Veteran Suicide: understand-identify-prevent

Did you join us for our recent One Is Too Many webinar, which took place on 20 March? We were pleased to help launch the findings from an innovative research project undertaken by The Baton and Northumbria University, which worked with bereaved military families to better understand future support and prevention of Veteran suicide.

Date published: 20 Mar 2024

New framework developed by Northumbria University to help prevent suicide among Veterans and serving personnel

Launched today, a new report from The Northern Hub for Veterans and Military Families Research at Northumbria University, has identified new approaches which may help prevent suicide.

New project to improve data on Veteran health and social care provision in the UK

The Trust has co-funded the next stage of work at Northumbria University to build on the Veteran data collections of the Map of Need.

Date published: 13 Sep 2023

New study highlights best practice in embedding Armed Forces Covenant at a local level

The Trust has commissioned RAND Europe to evaluate the findings from our Sustaining Delivery of the Armed Forces Covenant programme.

Date published: 04 Jul 2023

Collaboration, safe spaces and clearer pathways to support

June saw us deliver the latest in our series of programme focused webinars. Exploring peer support, safe spaces and essential collaboration at the heart of the Veterans’ Places, Pathways and People programme featured an inspiring mix of updates from across the programme.

Small Grants, Big Changes – discussing the value of small grants

We were delighted to attend a DSC Insight Talk in June which revealed new research into the value and use of small grants supporting charitable activity.

Date published: 05 Oct 2022

Evaluation report launched exploring Armed Forces loneliness

Evaluation report for Tackling Loneliness launched exploring Armed Forces loneliness

Transformational Grants: Trust Launches New Specialist Funding Programme

The Trust is excited to have launched a highly specialised programme that will make a small number of grants to create systemic change for Armed Forces communities. Grants of up to £300,000 are available.

What’s important when making grants to Armed Forces communities? Insights from consultation published; Online Survey Results 2022

In January 2022; the Trust launched an online survey to inform the Trust of views relating to funding programmes. Themes of grant size, grant length, impact and sustainability were explored.