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Awards made
| Year awarded | Programme | Funder | Organisation name | Project title | Project description | Project location | Grant amount | |||||
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| 2022 | OVA - Afghan Veterans' Fund - TRBL | Office for Veterans Affairs | Royal British Legion | Veterans’ Gateway Digital Enhancement | Project delivered/partially delivered, with some funding not used | England/London | 380,000.00 | |||||
| 2022 | OVA - Afghan Veterans' Fund - Samaritans | Office for Veterans Affairs | Samaritans | Veterans Support Hub | Samaritans will use the grant to establish a veterans support hub, providing trained peer-to-peer emotional support to improve the wellbeing and resilience of the veterans community and reduce the incidence of deaths by suicide within this community | England/South East | 600,000.00 | |||||
| 2022 | OVA - Afghan Veterans' Fund - Strand 1 | Office for Veterans Affairs | Brooke House Health and Wellbeing Centre | Increasing Capacity. | Brooke House intends to reinforce its capabilities and increase capacity in the face of increasing demand and increasing complexity of cases. The aim is to give veterans the best possible service, reduce risk, increase resilience and maintain value for money. | Northern Ireland | 100,000.00 | |||||
| 2022 | OVA - Afghan Veterans' Fund - Strand 1 | Office for Veterans Affairs | Combat Stress | Welsh Afghanistan Veterans – Specialist Treatment | Combat Stress will deliver specialist mental health services to address currently unmet needs of Welsh veterans with complex mental health problems following service in Afghanistan, addressing gaps in existing service provision. Combat Stress will provide these services in close partnership with existing providers, to ensure seamless services to veterans. | Wales | 113,583.00 | |||||
| 2022 | OVA - Afghan Veterans' Fund - Strand 1 | Office for Veterans Affairs | Help for Heroes | Hidden Wounds – Mental Health Support | Help for Heroes will deliver mental health assessment and treatment for wounded veterans, former locally employed civilians and the families adversely affected by the Afghanistan conflict and withdrawal as part of their Hidden Wounds and Project Solidarity programme. | England/South West | 100,000.00 | |||||
| 2022 | OVA - Afghan Veterans' Fund - Strand 1 | Office for Veterans Affairs | Icarus Online SCIO | Afghan Veterans' mental health & wellbeing | Charity data for the last 12 months shows roughly 85% of the veterans got treated by ICARUS are from Afghan and other conflicts. They are seeing increase in demand for mental health treatment from Afghan veterans for which they require 10 additional therapists and incremental technology & admin cost | Scotland | 100,000.00 | |||||
| 2022 | OVA - Afghan Veterans' Fund - Strand 1 | Office for Veterans Affairs | King Edward VII's Hospital | KEVII’s Veteran Pain Management Programme | The award-winning Pain Management Programme (PMP) delivered by the Centre for Veterans Health at King Edward VII’s Hospital (KEVII), provides life-changing support for veterans living with chronic pain. This grant would fund two additional programmes starting in 2022. | England/South East | 89,000.00 | |||||
| 2022 | OVA - Afghan Veterans' Fund - Strand 1 | Office for Veterans Affairs | PTSD Resolution CIO | Afghan Veterans mental health treatment | PTSD Resolution has provided therapy for trauma and social support for over 3300 veterans. A significant proportion served in Afghanistan. Demand averages 8 new referrals a week, many with complex trauma or comorbidity, some are homeless or in prison. The treatment is free, prompt, local, brief and effective. | England/South East | 95,904.00 | |||||
| 2022 | OVA - Afghan Veterans' Fund - Strand 1 | Office for Veterans Affairs | Veterans Outreach Support | Reinforcing Success in Mind | To meet the increased demand for, and complexity of, mental health support for veterans and families, VOS will uplift and enhance its current clinical team with additional psychological and psychiatric resource, providing improved support to those in need. | England/South East | 100,000.00 | |||||
| 2022 | OVA - Afghan Veterans' Fund - Strand 1 | Office for Veterans Affairs | Walking With the Wounded | Head Start – mental health programme | This funding will increase WWTW’s capacity to deliver the Head Start programme to both veterans and their families. Over the last year demand for the programme has increased and the charity wants to extend its support, so that partners and families are more resilient and able to cope. | England/East | 100,000.00 | |||||
| 2022 | OVA - Afghan Veterans' Fund - Strand 2 | Office for Veterans Affairs | RAF Benevolent Fund | Operation RAF UNITE | The organisation will develop their own grant making programmes; which Service organisations within the RAF charity sectors will be able to apply directly for grants; for projects to enhance comradeship among younger veterans | England/London | 430,832.00 | |||||
| 2022 | OVA - Afghan Veterans' Fund - Strand 2 | Office for Veterans Affairs | The Royal Navy and Royal Marines Charity | Reaching Out – By Your Side | The organisation will develop their own grant making programmes; which Service organisations within the Navy charity sectors will be able to apply directly for grants; for projects to enhance comradeship among younger veterans | England/South East | 430,833.00 | |||||
| 2022 | OVA - Afghan Veterans' Fund - Strand 3 | Office for Veterans Affairs | Forces Employment Charity | Afghan Employment Project | RFEA will deliver a project to improve the wellbeing of UK Veterans, who will volunteer their time working alongside and helping Afghan people who have defence connections, and who supported the UK Armed Forces during the 20-year Afghanistan conflict. | England/London | 150,000.00 | |||||
| 2022 | OVA - Afghan Veterans' Fund - Strand 4 | Office for Veterans Affairs | Army Widows Association | Army Widows/ers Regional Resilience Activities | Project delivered/partially delivered, with some funding not used | England/South East | 11,755.00 | |||||
| 2022 | OVA - Afghan Veterans' Fund - Strand 4 | Office for Veterans Affairs | Bowra Foundation | Bowra: Engage to Recover | The 'Bowra: Engage to Recover' project will provide support and comradeship to veterans and families who do not routinely access the services of other support on offer. The project will be lead by Mark Bowra, former UKSF commander, Invictus Gold medallist and stroke survivor. Mark will lead sporting activities, bringing together veterans and brain injury survivors of all backgrounds. | England/South West | 35,000.00 | |||||
| 2022 | OVA - Afghan Veterans' Fund - Strand 4 | Office for Veterans Affairs | British Limbless Ex-Service Men's Association | Activities for Recent-Conflict Limbless Veterans | Project delivered/partially delivered, with some funding not used | UK-wide | 35,000.00 | |||||
| 2022 | OVA - Afghan Veterans' Fund - Strand 4 | Office for Veterans Affairs | Climb 2 Recovery | Regional climbing and peer support. | The grant will enhance the organisations local and regional support and services Afghan veterans. Climb 2 Recovery will employ a regional member representatives, and a national member coordinator, to enable better support to be given to veterans. Climb 2 Recovery will also run regular indoor/outdoor climbing and social meets for veterans and their families. | UK-wide | 33,690.00 | |||||
| 2022 | OVA - Afghan Veterans' Fund - Strand 4 | Office for Veterans Affairs | Community Drug and Alcohol Recovery Services (CDARS) | The Herrick Project | The Herrick Project will provide joined up wellbeing and resilience activities to disadvantaged family members or carers of veterans from the Afghanistan conflict | England/London | 32,890.00 | |||||
| 2022 | OVA - Afghan Veterans' Fund - Strand 4 | Office for Veterans Affairs | Everton in the community | 'Laughing away the Blues' (LATB) | The 'Laughing away the Blues' project will engage with veterans and families across Merseyside; and will build on existing projects with veterans that have been run by the organisation | England/North West | 34,500.00 | |||||
| 2022 | OVA - Afghan Veterans' Fund - Strand 4 | Office for Veterans Affairs | Fighting With Pride | Tommy and Me | Fighting With Pride will use the funding to bring more of the LGBT+ military family together, offering support and comradeship to veterans from recent conflicts | UK-wide | 33,917.00 | |||||
| 2022 | OVA - Afghan Veterans' Fund - Strand 4 | Office for Veterans Affairs | Gloucester Rugby Foundation | One Community | The ‘One Community’ project will engage Gloucestershire based forces and veteran personnel who have been affected by recent conflicts. The project will use sporting activities to help improve mental wellbeing and physical health whilst supporting comradeship between participants. | England/South West | 18,825.00 | |||||
| 2022 | OVA - Afghan Veterans' Fund - Strand 4 | Office for Veterans Affairs | Groundwork Greater Manchester | Afghanistan Veterans’ Operation Re-Org | Groundwork GM's project will offer a structured health and wellbeing programme involving group based activities and opportunities for personal development for veterans, that have served in Afghanistan, and their families. The project will run at three locations across Greater Manchester, whilst also expanding the existing programme of 1-2-1 support for veterans from the Operation Re-Org Team. | England/North West | 35,000.00 | |||||
| 2022 | OVA - Afghan Veterans' Fund - Strand 4 | Office for Veterans Affairs | HORSEBACK UK | Veterans and Families Recovery Project | With this funding, HorseBack UK will expand its military and service families mental health and wellbeing recovery programmes. It will include horsemanship, equine assisted learning, rural skills and use the outdoors to meet increased support needs from veterans who served in Afghanistan and their families and carers. | UK-wide | 35,000.00 | |||||
| 2022 | OVA - Afghan Veterans' Fund - Strand 4 | Office for Veterans Affairs | Hull FC Community Foundation | Positive Futures | ‘Positive Futures’ is a new programme for veterans who have served in recent conflicts comprising bespoke activities inspired by the ‘Five Ways to Wellbeing’. Led by veterans with lived experience of Afghanistan, the project will offer individual support, groupbased, and inter-family activities which will empower improved wellbeing and social connections for veterans. | England/North East | 19,840.00 | |||||
| 2022 | OVA - Afghan Veterans' Fund - Strand 4 | Office for Veterans Affairs | Mindfulness Scotland | Outdoor Mindfulness & Recovery for Veterans | Mindfulness Scotland's project 'Outdoor Mindfulness & Recovery for Veterans' will enable veterans to spend time in nature to help develop mindfulness, and aid mental wellbeing and recovery | Scotland | 7,790.00 | |||||
| 2022 | OVA - Afghan Veterans' Fund - Strand 4 | Office for Veterans Affairs | On Course Foundation | Veterans Golf Programme – South-East | The project will deliver an enhanced programme of confidence building golf events - increasing peer-to-peer support for veterans in the South East of England, in particularly throughout Kent and Sussex. This includes working more closely with the Ghurkha community and other local veterans' organisations. | England/South East | 20,760.00 | |||||
| 2022 | OVA - Afghan Veterans' Fund - Strand 4 | Office for Veterans Affairs | Operation Veteran | Together we served | Together we served' is a project to be run by Operation Veteran. The aim of the project is to create opportunities for service men and women to connect to other veterans, for comradeship and to reduce isolation. The project will host informal activities and create uplifting discussions, in a space to support each other in their shared experiences and challenging life events. | England/North East | 26,817.00 | |||||
| 2022 | OVA - Afghan Veterans' Fund - Strand 4 | Office for Veterans Affairs | Remembering Our Roots CIC | NINE SHIPS Veterans Support Project | Remembering Our Roots CIC ‘NINE SHIPS Veterans Support Project’ will support serving personnel, veterans and their families in the South-West. The project offers camaraderie in fortnightly fireside get togethers, weekend accredited bushcraft qualifications and weekly therapeutic group support. | England/South West | 34,723.00 | |||||
| 2022 | OVA - Afghan Veterans' Fund - Strand 4 | Office for Veterans Affairs | Rochdale Hornets Sporting Foundation | Hornets Supporting Vets | With this funding, the Rochdale Hornets Sporting Foundation will expand existing services by introducing new activities to appeal to disengaged veterans. The Foundation will introduce a range of activities to appeal to younger veterans and use the power of sport and physical activity to increase self-esteem, ease mental health difficulties and develop a sense of belonging. | England/North West | 19,860.00 | |||||
| 2022 | OVA - Afghan Veterans' Fund - Strand 4 | Office for Veterans Affairs | Sale Sharks Foundation | Sharks Forces Together | ‘Sharks Forces Together’ will offer a new programme of holistic wellbeing activities for veteran carers, forces families, and those who directly served in recent conflicts. Delivered in partnership with Walking with the Wounded, the project’s focus is on empowering comradeship, improving wellbeing, and ultimately supporting better life outcomes for participants | England/North West | 28,750.00 | |||||
| 2022 | OVA - Afghan Veterans' Fund - Strand 4 | Office for Veterans Affairs | Scotty's Little Soldiers | Supporting Children of the Fallen | With this funding, Scotty’s Little Soldiers will increase their specialist bereavement support offered to all Forces children and young people who have experienced the death of a serving parent, addressing the extra needs of those who are impacted directly (killed in action) or indirectly (by suicide) from conflicts in Afghanistan and Iraq. | UK-wide | 35,000.00 | |||||
| 2022 | OVA - Afghan Veterans' Fund - Strand 4 | Office for Veterans Affairs | Service Dogs UK | Canines and Comradeship after Conflict | The demand for the charity's services has increased from those affected by recent conflicts. This grant will enable an increase in capacity to help more Veterans and their families, providing them with a challenging but rewarding programme, camaraderie and a specially trained and accredited PTSD assistance dog | England/South East | 35,000.00 | |||||
| 2022 | OVA - Afghan Veterans' Fund - Strand 4 | Office for Veterans Affairs | Turn to Starboard | The MERT Club | Turn to Starboard will use the funding to set up 'The MERT Club'. It will be an project set up to bring together and support those who undertook roles on the Medical Emergency Response Team in Afghanistan. | UK-wide | 35,000.00 | |||||
| 2022 | OVA - Afghan Veterans' Fund - Strand 4 | Office for Veterans Affairs | Veterans Contact Point | Operation Free Speech. | This project will create a support group specifically for veterans of Afghanistan and Iraq. The group will be facilitated by a veteran who served on operations in Afghanistan, supported by a member of the VCP staff acting as a link with NHS veterans mental health services | England/West Midlands | 30,000.00 | |||||
| 2022 | OVA - Afghan Veterans' Fund - Strand 4 | Office for Veterans Affairs | Veterans Outdoors | Turning Point | This project will responding to the needs of veterans from recent conflicts who have helped to shape the activities. The project will deliver weekend and evening programmes. Within this project there will be well-being activities to improve confidence and activities to reduce anxiety, and the project will aim to enable veterans to build friendships and camaraderie. | England/South West | 35,000.00 | |||||
| 2022 | OVA - Afghan Veterans' Fund - Strand 4 | Office for Veterans Affairs | Veterans Woodcraft CIC | “The Art of Wellbeing” | Project delivered/partially delivered, with some funding not used | England/North East | 35,000.00 | |||||
| 2022 | OVA - Afghan Veterans' Fund - Strand 4 | Office for Veterans Affairs | Woody's Lodge | Welsh Afghan Heroes. | The Welsh Afghan Heroes will use the grant continue to maintain the well established support team that provides much needed support, assistance, guidance and signposting for the Armed Forces Veterans community. They will be able to continue to offer extended home visits for veterans who might benefit from this. | Wales | 35,000.00 | |||||
| 2022 | OVA - Afghan Veterans’ Fund – Oral History | Office for Veterans Affairs | King’s Centre for Military Health Research, King’s College London | Afghanistan: Voices of service | King’s Centre for Military Health Research and Imperial War Museums will interview 100-120 UK Armed Forces personnel and family members who deployed to Afghanistan during the 2001-2021 conflict and the subsequent withdrawal to record and recognise their experiences, increase public awareness of their service and make recommendations for support needs. | England/London | 280,731.00 | |||||
| 2022 | OVA - Afghan Veterans' Fund - Strand 2a (Army) | Office for Veterans Affairs | 1st The Queen's Dragoon Guards Regimental Trust | V QDG CONNECT | The Queen's Dragoon Guards will create a virtual Hub (vHub) that will build connection and community in order to help address mental health needs from the Queen's Dragoon Guards serving and veteran community | Wales | 35,000.00 | |||||
| 2022 | OVA - Afghan Veterans' Fund - Strand 2a (Army) | Office for Veterans Affairs | Army Air Corps Charity | Army Air Corps Association Website | The grant will enable the organisation to enhance its fledgling website; enabling AAC veterans to freely interact and communicate with each other and serving personnel to unify and grow the community; using a range of digital tools to support engagement | England/South East | 10,000.00 | |||||
| 2022 | OVA - Afghan Veterans' Fund - Strand 2a (Army) | Office for Veterans Affairs | THE COLDSTREAM GUARDS ASSOCIATION | COLDSTREAM GUARDS VETERAN OUTREACH | The Coldstream Guards Association outreach project will establish contact with recent veterans who have lost touch with the Regiment and are in need of comradeship, to improve their mental and physical well-being, and provide a signposting opportunity to other veteran groups or charities that can help them. | England/London | 10,000.00 | |||||
| 2022 | OVA - Afghan Veterans' Fund - Strand 2a (Army) | Office for Veterans Affairs | The King's Royal Hussars Regimental Trust | vHussar | The King's Royal Hussars will create a virtual Hub (vHussar) that will build connection and community in order to help address mental health needs from the King's Royal Hussars serving and veteran community | England/South East | 35,000.00 | |||||
| 2022 | OVA - Afghan Veterans' Fund - Strand 2a (Army) | Office for Veterans Affairs | The Light Dragoons Charitable Trust | vLightDragoon | The Light Dragoons will create a virtual Hub (vHub) that will build connection and community in order to help address mental ill health from the Light Dragoons serving and veteran community | England/North East | 35,000.00 | |||||
| 2022 | OVA - Afghan Veterans' Fund - Strand 2a (Army) | Office for Veterans Affairs | The Princess of Wales's Royal Regiment Benevolent Fund | SubScriberCRM - Supporting the PWRR Association | The organisation will use the grant to make digital improvements; enabling veterans to have better access to support and comradeship within the Regimental Association | England/London | 10,000.00 | |||||
| 2022 | OVA - Afghan Veterans' Fund - Strand 2a (Army) | Office for Veterans Affairs | The Queen's Royal Hussars (The Queen's Own and Royal Irish) Regimental Charity | vQRHussar | The Queen's Royal Hussars will create a virtual Hub (VHub) that will build connection and community in order to help improve mental health from the Queen's Royal Hussars serving and veteran community. | England/London | 35,000.00 | |||||
| 2022 | OVA - Afghan Veterans' Fund - Strand 2a (Army) | Office for Veterans Affairs | The Regimental Charity of the Royal Dragoon Guards | Connect V Dragoon | This project will provide a single digital focal point for contact and support. The project responds to needs with Regiments veteran community that include substantial mental health needs within veterans who served in Iraq and Afghanistan | England/North East | 35,000.00 | |||||
| 2022 | OVA - Afghan Veterans' Fund - Strand 2a (Army) | Office for Veterans Affairs | The REME Charity | REME Connect: Afghanistan | To create digital communities of support for REME veterans of Afghanistan and similar recent operations to make a meaningful difference to the veterans' and their families' lives. | England/South West | 35,000.00 | |||||
| 2022 | OVA - Afghan Veterans' Fund - Strand 2a (Army) | Office for Veterans Affairs | The Royal Anglian Benevolent Charity | Royal Anglian Veterans Reunited | The Regiment will use this funding to make a real difference to the lives of our Afghanistan veterans. By providing a dedicated individual whose sole task is to engage with them, encourage them to connect with each other and the wider community and to organise events to enable this | England/East | 35,000.00 | |||||
| 2022 | OVA - Afghan Veterans' Fund - Strand 2a (Army) | Office for Veterans Affairs | The Royal Lancers Charitable Trust | vLancer (already extant in launch form) | The Royal Lancers have received a grant to help them to further develop their Virtual vHub. They will use their grant to further develop the app and to help engage with a wider group of younger veterans. The vHub project that they developed is now being taken forward by other Regimental Associations; to assist with building better connections and comradeship with younger veterans | England/East | 35,000.00 | |||||
| 2022 | OVA - Afghan Veterans' Fund - Strand 2a (Army) | Office for Veterans Affairs | The Royal Regiment of Fusiliers Aid Society (FAS) | Fusiliers Connected | The Fusiliers Association seek to reach out to younger, disengaged veterans who served in Iraq and Afghanistan to reconnect them to the comradeship and esprit de corps provided by the 'Fusiliers Connected' Association | England/London | 35,000.00 | |||||
| 2022 | OVA - Afghan Veterans' Fund - Strand 2a (Army) | Office for Veterans Affairs | The Royal Regiment of Scotland Regimental Trust | "Be the Standard for others to Follow" | The project will provide the SCOTS Association with modern media platforms to extend its support and reach to their veteran community; assisting them to reconnect with a friend, the SCOTS Association or an existing informal networks. They will do this through a digital project, which will include an app. | Scotland | 35,000.00 |
