Awards Made
| Year awarded | Programme | Funder | Organisation name | Project title | Project description | Project location | Grant amount |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | Apart Not Alone | Covenant Fund | Army Welfare Service Haverfordwest | Together we will grow | The 14th Signal Regiment service families will foster connections through the engagement in and enhancement of their community. This project aims to address isolation and establish a communal support hub, creating a vibrant garden space that promotes wellbeing, collaboration, and pride among participants while enriching the local environment for all. | Wales | 15,000.00 |
| 2024 | Apart Not Alone | Covenant Fund | RAF Association | Navigating Dementia | The RAF Association will deliver ‘Navigating Dementia’, a bespoke training programme to support 40 serving RAF personnel who are in the unique position of caring for a family member at a distance to increase understanding of support available and improve wellbeing. | England/East | 14,925.00 |
| 2024 | Apart Not Alone | Covenant Fund | RAF Coningsby | RAF Coningsby Apart, Not Alone | RAF Coningsby Apart, Not Alone programme supports families of deployed personnel from RAF Coningsby by offering community events, support groups, social activities, and resources designed to help those impacted by long-term separations due to deployments or exercises. | England/East | 15,000.00 |
| 2024 | Apart Not Alone | Covenant Fund | RAF High Wycombe | Helping Everyone Achieve Resilience Together | The project will help families affected by involuntary separations build increased resilience to manage feelings of disconnection and feel greater emotional connection despite physical distance. It will reduce isolation, strengthen their connection to RAF High Wycombe and ensure they will know how to access support if required. | England/South East | 12,100.00 |
| 2024 | Apart Not Alone | Covenant Fund | The Soldiers, Sailors, Airmen and Families Association – Forces Help | Turn 2 SSAFA | Glasgow’s Helping Heroes’ “Turn 2 SSAFA” project is for naval spouses and partners based at HMNB Clyde, Scotland, who experience long and frequent periods of separation from serving personnel on deployment. The project will provide social activities coupled with interactive talks, covering essential areas of support, as well as 1:1 consultations. | Scotland | 14,940.00 |
| 2025 | Apart Not Alone | Covenant Fund | The Royal Navy and Royal Marines Charity | Strengthening Families West of Scotland | Strengthening Families – West of Scotland will support Royal Navy Submariner families facing challenges of separation. RNRMC aim to achieve this by improving community engagement, mental health support, and social connectivity. A dedicated team will coordinate partnerships to deliver tailored services and strengthen long-term resilience for families in the region. | Scotland | 368,500.00 |
| 2025 | Apart Not Alone | Covenant Fund | Forces Children Scotland | Deployment Rollercoaster for Primary Children | Forces Children Scotland will co-produce digital/physical resources with primary-aged children from forces families, their parents, and professionals who support them. Interactive wellbeing workshops will be developed for delivery in school settings, to support children and families facing parental deployment by fostering resilience, emotional wellbeing, and understanding. | Scotland | 43,795.00 |
| 2025 | Apart Not Alone | Covenant Fund | Green Paths Environmental Education CIC | Op Hearth | This project will provide separate targeted outdoor wellbeing sessions for the partners and children of serving personnel, offering emotional support, peer connection, and respite. Through nature-based activities, it will build resilience, reduce isolation, and create a supportive community environment to combat the unique challenges that separation often brings. | England/South West | 25,000.00 |
| 2025 | Apart Not Alone | Covenant Fund | Home-Start Blackmore vale | The Deployment and Separation Diaries | The Deployment and Separation Diaries is a digital peer support group for service families with young children. This group brings parents and families from the South West of England together to share their experiences of deployment and extended periods of separation. | England/South West | 7,965.00 |
| 2025 | Apart Not Alone | Covenant Fund | Home-Start Hampshire | Together through Distance | Home-Start Hampshire will deliver emotional and practical support to armed forces families with young children during service-related separation. Trained volunteers will deliver tailored, holistic support, built on a model of people-helping-people designed to help families navigate the unique challenges they face and come together through distance. | England/South East | 49,824.00 |
| 2025 | Apart Not Alone | Covenant Fund | Home-Start Lomond | Thriving Families | This project will provide staff and volunteer led practical assistance and emotional support to military families on a 1:1 basis. It will facilitate both military specific and widercommunity peer-support sessions for families and provide a variety of activities for whole families or individual members. | Scotland | 25,000.00 |
| 2025 | Apart Not Alone | Covenant Fund | Plymouth Sports Charity | Operation Reconnect: Supporting Military Families | Operation Reconnect will support serving military families experiencing separation by providing weekly family-friendly fitness sessions, peer support events, and well-being activities. The project will help reduce isolation, strengthen family bonds, and improve emotional resilience during and after deployment or extended time apart. | England/South West | 28,000.00 |
| 2025 | Apart Not Alone | Covenant Fund | Reading Force | Connecting Families Through Shared-Reading | Reading Force enhances the wellbeing of military families during the deployment cycle, long periods of separation, and subsequent reintegration by providing free sharedreading resources. This supports connection, communication, and bonding between parents and children, improves mental health and resilience, and reduces isolation through literary-based activities tailored to different ages and needs. | UK-wide | 50,000.00 |
| 2025 | Apart Not Alone | Covenant Fund | Royal Air Force People & Families Support | RAF Families: Managing Time Apart | RAF Families - Managing Time Apart coaching equips serving RAF parents with tools and strategies to mitigate the impact of time apart due to their military service. This enables the serving parent to better support their partners and children during periods of separation, fostering happier more resilient family relationships. | UK-wide | 5,148.00 |
| 2025 | Apart Not Alone | Covenant Fund | RAF Waddington | RAF Waddington Apart, Not Alone | Supporting the families of personnel from RAF Waddington who experience hardship as a result of separation through duty and who are ineligible to access support through existing funding sources. | England/East | 20,000.00 |
| 2025 | Apart Not Alone | Covenant Fund | The Moving on Project | Safe Harbour Project | The Safe Harbour Project provides confidential, professional counselling for naval families before, during, and after deployment. Delivered by The Moving On Project, the program offers lived-experience-led mental health support to strengthen resilience, reduce anxiety, and improve emotional well-being during times of separation. | England/South East | 50,000.00 |
| 2026 | Apart Not Alone | Covenant Fund | Army Welfare Service | Building Resilience for the Community | Kinloss Barracks, home to 39 Engineer Regiment, holds ‘Isolated Unit Status’. This project aims to enhance community resilience by supporting spouses, partners, and children who face challenges of separation during deployments and geographic isolation from extended family, fostering stronger connections, wellbeing, and access to resources. | Scotland | 24800.00 |
| 2026 | Apart Not Alone | Covenant Fund | Forces Children Scotland | Youth-led Deployment and Weekending Services | This project will co-design and embed specialist deployment and weekending services with young people aged 11–16 from armed forces families. Through accredited staff training, youth-led service design, piloting and evaluation, it delivers early, preventative wellbeing support that reduces isolation, strengthens family relationships, and prevents escalation to specialist services. | Scotland | 37542.00 |
| 2026 | Apart Not Alone | Covenant Fund | SSAFA, the Armed Forces charity | Turn 2 SSAFA: ANA | “TURN 2 SSAFA: ANA” supports spouses/partners and children of serving personnel at HMNB Clyde, Scotland. Peer-to-peer support, facilitated by staff, and 1:1 trauma-informed practice, reduces loneliness and improves mental health, often linked to separation. Beneficiaries gain practical advice and peer connections, easing reintegration and promoting effective support models. | Scotland | 49808.00 |
| 2026 | Apart Not Alone | Covenant Fund | The VC Gallery | VC Forces Families – Together | This project provides weekly support through a combination of: VC Breakfast Club family integration sessions, creative arts-based family wellbeing activities, counselling and emotional support, peer-led connection group support, practical support pathways (DWP, CAB, Careers Wales). Support will be delivered from safe, non-clinical environments where families can access help early, build connection and reduce isolation. | Wales | 25000.00 |
| 2026 | Apart Not Alone | Covenant Fund | The RAF Association | Navigating Dementia | Navigating Dementia is a tailored training programme supporting 180 serving RAF personnel who care for a family member remotely; strengthening awareness of available support, reducing loneliness and enhancing wellbeing. | UK-wide | 48371.00 |
| 2026 | Apart Not Alone | Covenant Fund | Byways Cafe (Stanton Methodist Church) - a project of the TDM Methodist Circuit | Byways Forces Families Community Bridge | This project provides a Community Engagement Team serving families associated with RAF Honington delivering specific support groups in the nearby village of Stanton aiming to bridge the gap between behind the wire and the local community. | England/East | 50000.00 |
| 2026 | Apart Not Alone | Covenant Fund | Home-Start Horizons | Forces Family Resilience – Kendrew/Rutland | Home-Start Horizons delivers family support in 1:1 and group sessions to reduce loneliness and isolation, provide advice and tools to manage the challenges of changing family dynamics caused by separation and reunion, and to build resilience to manage mental and physical health and wellbeing of the whole family. | England/East | 50000.00 |
| 2026 | Apart Not Alone | Covenant Fund | Home-Start Norfolk | Together with Home-Start Norfolk | This project provides group support, 1:1 support and signposting to specialist services structured around the cycle of deployment. Families left behind will build their social networks through group play whilst returning parents will be supported to reintegrate, re-bond and build attachments with their children reducing the emergence of adverse childhood experiences. | England/East | 48400.00 |
| 2026 | Apart Not Alone | Covenant Fund | RAF Coningsby | RAF Coningsby Apart, Not Alone | RAF Coningsby Apart but Not Alone provides support to families of deployed personnel from RAF Coningsby through the delivery of community events, support groups, social activities and resources to those impacted by long term separation from deployments and exercises. | England/East | 25000.00 |
| 2026 | Apart Not Alone | Covenant Fund | RAF Wittering | Service Youth Connections | Supporting young people who are experiencing service-related separation through a school-based youth work programme. Delivered in partnership with YMCA Trinity and 6 key secondary schools, this project will focus on social connections, increasing resilience and wellness, communication and coping strategies. | England/East | 24905.00 |
| 2026 | Apart Not Alone | Covenant Fund | The Regimental Charity of The Royal Dragoon Guards | RDG Family Connection Project | Supporting Royal Dragoon Guards families affected by service-related separation, this project will reduce loneliness, strengthen relationships and improve wellbeing through social connection, accessible information, and reintegration activities, helping families better manage deployments, exercises and weekending. | England/North East | 15000.00 |
| 2026 | Apart Not Alone | Covenant Fund | Royal Air Force Benson | Reaching Out & Bringing Together | This project will offer engagement and support to families and living away during the week. | England/South East | 21914.00 |
| 2026 | Apart Not Alone | Covenant Fund | Defence Medical Welfare Service (DMWS) | Supporting Separated Families in Devon | DMWS will employ a Health & Wellbeing Caseworker to support families who may be struggling with separation challenges during and after service life in Devon. The Caseworker will help families manage the unique challenges of long- and short-term separations and provide emotional and practical welfare support. | England/South West | 47783.00 |
| 2026 | Apart Not Alone Local Impact Grants | Covenant Fund | DEFENCE MEDICAL WELFARE SERVICE (DMWS) | Moray Armed Forces Community Resilience | A DMWS Health and Wellbeing Navigator will support serving families based at RAF Lossiemouth and Kinloss Barracks access and navigate local health and social care support pathways on arrival and during challenging periods of deployment including developing family-focussed health and social activities on base in response to identified need. | Scotland | 293,793.00 |
| 2026 | Apart Not Alone Local Impact Grants | Covenant Fund | Vennture | Alongside | Vennture will provide in home, whole family, mentoring. They will assist the high concentrations of military families living in Hereford, Brecon and The Welsh Borders. They will come alongside the whole family, equip them to better address the practical/emotional challenges triggered by deployments/extended separation and build supportive connections for families. | England/West Midlands | 300,000.00 |
Frequently asked questions
Please note, we will add to this list if and when we receive queries from applicants.
Does my project need to achieve all four outcomes?
No, your project only needs to address one of the outcomes however, you can address more than one outcome, if it is appropriate for your project.
Who will benefit under this programme?
Your project must clearly benefit currently serving armed forces families, which includes Reservists & other personnel recognised under the Covenant such as RFA (Royal Fleet Auxiliary) who have served on a civilian vessel while it was supporting HM Armed Forces.
Projects should be focused on supporting serving families impacted by separation, for example deployment, weekending, or military exercises.
Can we use funds for individual support grants to meet specific needs?
No, Trust funds cannot be used for the benefit of only one person, or for making grants or donations of money or items of value to individuals or families. Please refer to the programme guidance for further information on how funding can and cannot be used.
Why do we need to consult with serving families?
Applicants should ensure that their project meets the needs of their intended beneficiary group which requires them to understand their specific needs. You will be asked to demonstrate consultation with serving families within your application form. You may also wish to use the latest community needs analysis to help inform this.
Can delivery take place overseas?
Under this programme delivery must take place within the UK, only.
