News

Type: News

Categories: Consultation, Impact, Uncategorized

June 6, 2023

Small Grants, Big Changes

Small Grants, Big Changes, a report by the Armed Forces Covenant Fund Trust and the Directory of Social Change (DSC), provides evidence to support what most people involved in delivering and funding charitable activities believed to be the case – small grants and small grants programmes have a vital role to play in enabling and sustaining critical support for charities and their beneficiaries.

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Veterans' Places, Pathways and People

Type: News

Categories: Projects we've funded, Veterans Places, Pathways and People, Veterans' mental health and wellbeing

June 1, 2023

You’re invited! Join us to explore the latest findings from the Veterans Places, Pathways and People Programme

We are pleased to announce details of the latest in our series of webinars, focussing on our Veterans’ Places, Pathways and People programme.

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Type: External News

Categories: Projects we've funded, Veterans

May 24, 2023

Veteran Celebrates 100th Birthday at Wrexham Maelor Hospital

We were delighted to hear that Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board’s (BCUHB) Armed Forces Lead, Zoe Roberts recently had the pleasure of sharing veteran inpatient Mr Steven Harvey’s 100th Birthday celebrations in their ‘Veteran Aware’ East Acute Hospital Wrexham Maelor.

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Type: News

Categories: Projects we've funded, Veterans

May 17, 2023

Mental Health Awareness Week – tackling veteran suicide

In March this year, we held a webinar to discuss the progress and impact of our One Is Too Many programme. We heard from four funded organisations, who each shared updates on the work they are doing to tackle the challenging issue of veteran suicide.

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Type: External News

Categories: Uncategorized, Veterans

May 11, 2023

Trust funded project meets US First Lady

We were delighted to learn The Fighting Chance had recently welcomed US First Lady Jill Biden and Akshata Murty (wife of the Prime Minister) along to a boxing session earlier this month.

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Type: News

Categories: Force For Change, Programme news, Reaching and Supporting

May 9, 2023

Two popular Covenant Fund programmes now open for applications

We are delighted to announce the relaunch of both the Force for Change and Reaching and Supporting Armed Forces Communities programmes.

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Type: News

Categories: Carers and Families, Projects we've funded, Veterans

April 26, 2023

Supporting Armed Forces in Acute Hospital Settings – Chester Roadshow

The Trust recently invited Armed Forces Advocates along with NHS representatives, organisations and charities working within the Armed Forces network and stakeholders to our first ‘Supporting Armed Forces in Acute hospital Settings’ roadshow event in the beautiful City of Chester.

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Categories: Uncategorized

April 21, 2023

Grants of up to £1.5M available to tackle veterans’ homelessness

We are pleased to announce the launch of the Reducing Veteran Homelessness Programme – a targeted programme that will award major grants to tackle the issue of veterans experiencing homelessness. Under this new programme, the Trust will award grants on…

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Veterans' Places, Pathways and People

Type: News

Categories: Veterans Places, Pathways and People

April 19, 2023

A programme to create better, sustainable support for veterans in the communities where they live

The Veterans’ Places, Pathways and People (VPPP) programme aims to deliver significant improvements to how veterans with mental health and wellbeing needs can be supported in a joined-up way.

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April 5, 2023

Grant awarded to reduce Veteran Homelessness

The Armed Forces Covenant Fund Trust has worked with the Office for Veterans’ Affairs to award a grant under a specialist grant scheme to end veteran homelessness. Nearly £500,000 has been awarded to Riverside to run Operation FORTITUDE, a UK…

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