Awards made
| Year awarded | Programme | Funder | Organisation name | Project title | Project description | Project location | Grant amount |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Force For Change | Covenant Fund | Adferiad | Digital Inclusion Skills for Armed Forces Veterans in Wales | The organisation will provide access to digital inclusion training and workshops for veterans. This will be followed by a number of digital coffee mornings for veterans who wish to improve their skills. | Wales | 19,937.00 |
| 2020 | Force For Change | Covenant Fund | Adferiad | Troop Café Community Hub | The organisation will recruit two hospitality and activity coordinators to create an inclusive setting at the Troop Café Community Hub. Planned activities include quizzes, curry evenings, clinics and learning opportunities. | Wales | 20,000.00 |
| 2020 | Force For Change | Covenant Fund | Age UK East London | Digital buddies together | The organisation will build on their digital buddying and befriending service. They will expand the service into Hackney and in Newham/Tower Hamlets, linking friendship volunteers with veterans for weekly phone calls. | England/London | 19,870.00 |
| 2020 | Force For Change | Covenant Fund | Age UK East Sussex | CERT-E For Change | The organisation will engage volunteers to tackle barriers to older veterans becoming more active. This includes escorted shopping trips, face-toface walks and escorting to local events and activities, following any Covid restrictions. Volunteers will receive training and support to fully understand their role. | England/South East | 20,000.00 |
| 2020 | Force For Change | Covenant Fund | Age UK East Sussex | CERT-LB For Change | The organisation will recruit a part time 'volunteer peer mentor' coordinator to help develop their services in response to increasing social isolation issues. This includes virtual coffee mornings, a book club and gaming/chess clubs. | England/South East | 20,000.00 |
| 2020 | Force For Change | Covenant Fund | Age UK East Sussex | CERT H For Change | The organisation will engage volunteers to tackle barriers to older veterans becoming more active. This includes escorted shopping trips, face-toface walks and escorting to local events and activities, following any Covid restrictions. Volunteers will receive training and support to fully understand their role. | England/South East | 20,000.00 |
| 2020 | Force For Change | Covenant Fund | Age UK Wandsworth | Veterans Together | The organisation will offer outdoor activities to veterans and widows of veterans, aged over 50 in Wandsworth. Activities will include gardening, bowls, rambling, bird watching and visiting local attractions. Depending on Covid restrictions, indoor activities such as coffee mornings will also be offered. | England/London | 17,884.00 |
| 2020 | Force For Change | Covenant Fund | Armed Forces Community Support Hub (Devon) | Exeter Veterans - Covid and Beyond | The organisation will deliver a programme that covers nutrition, movement, therapeutic art and quizzes. Veterans from a wide area will be encouraged to get involved. The organisation will improve their outreach capacity to enable this, and will provide an IT suite enabling veterans to use email safely, receive training on internet safety and learn to use basic programmes such as Word - this will help clients with job search and writing CVs. | England/South West | 20,000.00 |
| 2020 | Force For Change | Covenant Fund | Army Welfare Service Haverfordwest | Virtual Youth Staying Connected - Stronger Together | The organisation will use iPads to provide support and better connect with the community. There will be weekly virtual participation groups featuring a range of activities such as cooking, film/book reviews and quizzes. This will enhance mood and reduce isolation, providing the chance to meet with peers and meet people from other bases in Wales too. | Wales | 19,630.00 |
| 2020 | Force For Change | Covenant Fund | Battling On CIC | Building Brighter Futures | The organisation will run twice weekly workshops undertaking a range of activities such as developing a community garden and providing fruit and vegetables to vulnerable people in the community. Volunteers will be trained to run the project post-funding. | England/South West | 20,000.00 |
| 2020 | Force For Change | Covenant Fund | Blind Veterans UK | Stepping Forward (Volunteer Upskilling) | The organisation will enhance their beneficiary experience through the use of volunteers. They will provide their volunteers with support from a Volunteer Coordinator, access to new peer-topeer support volunteers and bespoke training sessions on what to expect post Covid-19. Once trained, the volunteers will help blind veterans to rebuild their social networks. | UK-wide | 20,000.00 |
| 2020 | Force For Change | Covenant Fund | Brooke House Health and Wellbeing Centre | Extraordinary Times, Extraordinary Volunteers | The organisation will extend their existing outdoor facilities, upskill volunteers and deliver workshops - delivered in person and shared via live streaming. | Northern Ireland | 19,240.00 |
| 2020 | Force For Change | Covenant Fund | Surf Action | Resilient Communities in the New Normal | The organisation will run a series of six-week course for the Forces community in Cornwall. Those taking part will experience teamwork, resilience, inclusivity and will make new friendships. The focus will be on self-confidence as well as discovering the fun of surfing and the beach environment. | England/South West | 20,000.00 |
| 2020 | Force For Change | Covenant Fund | Cumbria CVS | Forward Step - Walking for Health | The organisation will provide regular opportunities to get outside, form new friendships and access a support network. There will be health walks in Carlisle and Eden districts, as well as longer walks around Cumbria. | England/North West | 18,800.00 |
| 2020 | Force For Change | Covenant Fund | Curzon Ashton Community Foundation | Curzon's Mindfulness and Wellbeing Programme | The organisation will host weekly mindfulness and wellbeing days for the Forces community. Activities include yoga, pilates, art therapy and cooking. | England/North West | 19,920.00 |
| 2020 | Force For Change | Covenant Fund | Defence School of Transport | Ladysmith House – The Defence School of Transport Community and Welfare Hub. | The organisation will provide a self-sufficient ecological outdoor experience to the Forces community. There will be opportunities to get involved in a sensory garden and sensory stimulation, planting hedgerows, making bird boxes and mud kitchens. | England/North East | 20,000.00 |
| 2020 | Force For Change | Covenant Fund | Edinburgh & Lothians Greenspace Trust | Dreghorn Nursery Outdoor Activities | The organisation will develop an outdoor space at a local nursery. Families will be encouraged to work together to make outdoor improvements and design and construct the new area at the nursery. There will be gardening workshops, woodland activities and physical activity sessions for the parents to get involved in as well as family conservation activities for the wider community. | Scotland | 18,550.00 |
| 2020 | Force For Change | Covenant Fund | The Fighting Chance | PTSD Social Isolation Boxing Programme | The organisation will offer boxing training for veterans who are socially isolated. | England/London | 19,919.00 |
| 2020 | Force For Change | Covenant Fund | The Fighting Chance | The Fighting Chance - Community Boxing Project | The organisation will recruit and train veteran volunteers to deliver a 16-week boxing programme in the local community. | England/London | 19,865.00 |
| 2020 | Force For Change | Covenant Fund | FirstLight Trust | Growing Activities | The organisation will appoint a support worker to develop weekly activities with the local community at a local garden site. | Scotland | 18,684.00 |
| 2020 | Force For Change | Covenant Fund | Herefordshire Council | Veteran to Veteran Volunteering Scheme | The organisation will use a volunteer coordinator to build upon their current volunteering opportunities and offer activities and courses for socially and rurally isolated veterans. | England/West Midlands | 19,627.00 |
| 2020 | Force For Change | Covenant Fund | HORSEBACK UK | HorseBack Volunteer Force | The organisation will adapt an old stable area into a multi-purpose classroom to allow it to deliver its activities in line with Covid restrictions. A team of veteran volunteers will carry out the work, providing a sense of purpose and to reduce isolation. | Scotland | 7,500.00 |
| 2020 | Force For Change | Covenant Fund | Housing Options Scotland (HOS) | Volunteer Development for Military Matters | The organisation will deliver a pilot scheme with veteran volunteers to research and develop local opportunities and activities such as homelessness interviews, home visits and help with filling out forms, to support isolated clients. | Scotland | 18,308.00 |
| 2020 | Force For Change | Covenant Fund | Hull 4 Heroes | Re-cycling Heroes | The organisation will support veterans to learn to repair and refurbish bikes donated to the charity. These bikes are then returned to the community as part of a free bike library and will include adapted bikes for injured veterans. | England/North East | 18,896.00 |
| 2020 | Force For Change | Covenant Fund | Hull FC Community Foundation | 'Game Plan' | The organisation will offer one-to-one and group activities to veterans facing challenges with loneliness and reintegration. The 'Game to Play' project will engage veterans through a sport theme and educate and inspire participants to use the skills and qualifications gained to good use. | England/North East | 16,490.00 |
| 2020 | Force For Change | Covenant Fund | Liverpool Arabic Centre LAC | Aden Narratives Documentary Digital Inclusion | The organisation will build on successful crosscultural relationships built from their Aden Narratives documentaries. They will reach and engage with veterans who are isolated to have little/no access to provisions. 11 pod casts will be created and there will be a quarterly newsletter amongst other activities such as panel talks and ensuring access to digital technology. | England/North West | 19,225.00 |
| 2020 | Force For Change | Covenant Fund | Milton Keynes Council | Veterans Community Network | The organisation will recruit a part time 'volunteer peer mentor' coordinator to help develop their services in response to increasing social isolation issues. This includes virtual coffee mornings, a book club and gaming/chess clubs. | England/South East | 19,450.00 |
| 2020 | Force For Change | Covenant Fund | Mind in Haringey | Veterans in Mind | The organisation will co-develop activities with veterans, focusing on changing negative thinking and improving loneliness and isolation. Those involved will take part in gardening activities as well as peer-to-peer discussion groups. | England/London | 20,000.00 |
| 2020 | Force For Change | Covenant Fund | Northern Ireland Garrison Support Unit | Thiepval Wood Mountain Bike Trail | The organisation will offer user-friendly, fun and rewarding mountain biking activities to reduce isolation amongst serving personnel and their families. | Northern Ireland | 20,000.00 |
| 2020 | Force For Change | Covenant Fund | Operation Veteran | Veterans Support and Volunteering Centre | The organisation will recruit a volunteer and activities co-ordinator to co- design and deliver activities following consultation with veterans; which will help reduce isolation among veterans locally. | England/North East | 19,231.00 |
| 2020 | Force For Change | Covenant Fund | PATT Foundation | www.facebook.com/pg/pattfoundation | Project delivered/partially delivered, with some funding not used | England/North East | 20,000.00 |
| 2020 | Force For Change | Covenant Fund | Reading Force | Reading Force Book Club Ambassador Scheme | The organisation will build a network of sharedreading groups across the military community. | UK-wide | 20,000.00 |
| 2020 | Force For Change | Covenant Fund | Reserve Forces and Cadets Association Northern Ireland | DGS Spoke Development & Volunteer Coordinator | The organisation will recruit a volunteer coordinator to develop and deliver support to participants as they progress through the DGS Spoke Development programme, including workshops and family nature-based away days. | Northern Ireland | 16,800.00 |
| 2020 | Force For Change | Covenant Fund | Rhu Primary School | Culture Cafe will now be changed to 'The Creative Force' | The organisation will run a periodic culture café lead by a different year group each time. Pupils will exhibit music, art, environmental lectures, cooker demonstrations and more and the community will be invited to register for events hosted in a Covid secure way. | Scotland | 8,000.00 |
| 2020 | Force For Change | Covenant Fund | RMA-The Royal Marines Charity | Enabling RMA Branch Welfare Officer Programme | The organisation will support veterans in need, and their families, to reduce isolation and offer comradeship and compassion. | England/North East | 20,000.00 |
| 2020 | Force For Change | Covenant Fund | Rushmoor Borough Council | Aldershot Repair Cafe | The organisation will establish a café, encouraging veterans to take part and help repair local products that are brought in. | England/South East | 15,000.00 |
| 2020 | Force For Change | Covenant Fund | Rutland County Council | Courses for Forces [Learning Life Enhancing Digital Skills] | The organisation will provide 12, three-week courses for learners to develop and improve their technical and creative skills in digital media. | England/East | 19,950.00 |
| 2020 | Force For Change | Covenant Fund | Sale Sharks Foundation | Social Sharks | The organisation will launch three Social Sharks hubs to support veterans aged 55+ years living in Trafford, Salford and Stockport. Young people from the 'Advantage project will volunteer within the hubs to support participants to become digitally savvy. | England/North West | 19,570.00 |
| 2020 | Force For Change | Covenant Fund | Same but Different cic | More than a National Service | The organisation will engage National Service conscripts in Dorset, producing striking portraits, video interviews and written narratives to bring their experiences to life. They will also host living history events for young people. | England/South West | 19,995.00 |
| 2020 | Force For Change | Covenant Fund | Scarva and district cultural CIC | ABC armed forces regional centre | Project delivered/partially delivered, with some funding not used | Northern Ireland | 20,000.00 |
| 2020 | Force For Change | Covenant Fund | Scottish Veterans Residences (SVR) | Whitefoord House Veterans’ Fitness Challenge | Project delivered/partially delivered, with some funding not used | Scotland | 4,928.00 |
| 2020 | Force For Change | Covenant Fund | Shared Enterprise CIC | The Keep Shared Enterprise Club | The organisation will empower the Forces community to become more engaged in activities, inspire and learn from each other. There will be group workshops and activities will be planned around the commitments, skills and talents of members. | England/London | 18,900.00 |
| 2020 | Force For Change | Covenant Fund | Soldiers' Arts Academy CIC | Soldiers' Arts Academy York hub arts workshops | The organisation will launch online workshops delivering arts-based activities. | England/North East | 20,000.00 |
| 2020 | Force For Change | Covenant Fund | SSAFA - North Somerset | SSAFA North Somerset - Capacity Building | The organisation will provide goods and services to the Forces community including white goods, transport to medical appointments and funeral expenses. | England/South West | 10,000.00 |
| 2020 | Force For Change | Covenant Fund | Tameside MBC | Veteran’s Survival Course | The organisation will hold a veterans' lunch each month for isolated veterans. They will also run a 12-week basic cookery course and offer an introduction to hospitality. | England/North West | 14,630.00 |
| 2020 | Force For Change | Covenant Fund | The Bridge for Heroes | Project Link | The organisation will deliver weekly social activities at the Bridge Centre, such as tea parties, garden parties and reminiscing about common topics. There will also be basic workshops in digital support, growing vegetables, painting and more. | England/East | 20,000.00 |
| 2020 | Force For Change | Covenant Fund | The VC Gallery | Ex-Forces volunteer Coordinator South | The organisation will recruit a volunteer coordinator to help deliver opportunities for the Forces community to take part in such as fishing trips, art workshops, photography and social events. | Wales | 19,620.00 |
| 2020 | Force For Change | Covenant Fund | The VC Gallery | Ex-Services Peer Mentor | The organisation will recruit a peer mentor to help deliver opportunities for the Forces community, building relationships and providing a stabilising and consistent role to help reduce isolation. | Wales | 20,000.00 |
| 2020 | Force For Change | Covenant Fund | Veterans Outreach Support | Supporting Veterans Outreach | The organisation will establish a dedicated team of 10 volunteers to assist them extend their reach, especially to those who are isolated and lonely. | England/South East | 20,000.00 |
| 2020 | Force For Change | Covenant Fund | Veterans Woodcraft CIC | Vintage Veterans | The organisation will hold two workshops a week for nine months, engaging with veterans and their families through woodwork and engineering work. | England/North East | 20,000.00 |
| 2020 | Force For Change | Covenant Fund | The Vine Centre | GASP (Gambling, Alcohol & Substance Misuse Project) | The organisation will establish a military-only group to support those feeling isolated in their work community. There will be Cooking with Confidence training, one-to-one support and building key skills such as literacy and numeracy - as well as help with employment needs. | England/South East | 20,000.00 |
| 2020 | Force For Change | Covenant Fund | Vulnerable Learners Service (VLS) | Armed Forces Education Support | The organisation will employ a key worker to monitor the progression of children from military families, ensuring continuity of learning during transition between schools, and offering pastoral support. | Wales | 20,000.00 |
| 2020 | Force For Change | Covenant Fund | Wakefield Trinity Community Foundation | 'In Touch' | The organisation will deliver the In Touch project to older veterans. Two-weekly sessions will be delivered with activities designed to boost physical health and promote positive wellbeing. | England/North East | 15,740.00 |
| 2020 | Force For Change | Covenant Fund | Walking With the Wounded | Growing Together - Veterans and Families | The organisation will deliver a volunteer programme including activities such as fitness challenges, mindfulness and meditation, cooker groups, hobby groups, school activities and more. | England/North East | 20,000.00 |
| 2020 | Force For Change | Covenant Fund | Woolwich Garrison Church Trust | Garrison Church/Woolwich Barracks Revival | The organisation will organise activities for soldiers and their families from Woolwich Barracks. There will be a carol service, talks and events to mark the shared history between the Army, garrison church and the local population, and children will also be encouraged to take part in activities and volunteering. | England/London | 15,000.00 |
| 2020 | Force For Change | Covenant Fund | Wrexham County Borough Council | Volunteer access to Mental Health First Aid | The organisation will deliver training packages to enable individuals/groups who are working with the AFC in North Wales to gain recognised qualifications in Mental Health First Aid Training (veteran specific). | Wales | 19,440.00 |
| 2021 | Force For Change | Covenant Fund | Age Concern Birmingham (ACB) | Friend for life | The organisation will appoint a Friendships Co-ordinator to develop and support the creation of networks and friendships for older Armed Forces communities in Birmingham and Sandwell. | England/West Midlands | 16,850.00 |
| 2021 | Force For Change | Covenant Fund | Age Cymru Gwynedd a Mon | Gwynedd and Anglesey Veterans social connections initiative | The project will encourage veterans and their families/carers to become more connected in their local communities post Covid-19. They'll offer socialising opportunities, with the aim of reducing loneliness and isolation. | Wales | 20,000.00 |
| 2021 | Force For Change | Covenant Fund | Age UK Cornwall & Isles of Scilly | Linking Cornwall Veterans | The organisation will run a pilot project in St Austell and surrounding clay villages. They will co-ordinate a small number of volunteers to link with veterans in the area and will offer opportunities to connect with each other and with activities and support through their community hub. | England/South West | 19,357.00 |
| 2021 | Force For Change | Covenant Fund | Age UK Herefordshire & Worcestershire | Age UK H&W Veterans Meeting Centre | The organisation will develop veteran-specific, specialist days within their existing dementia meeting premises. The grant will allow older veterans living with dementia to engage in meaningful activities, which will not only benefit their cognitive wellbeing but allow them to form friendships. | England/West Midlands | 18,187.00 |
| 2021 | Force For Change | Covenant Fund | Age UK Lancashire | Veterans’ Support in the Community | The organisation will employ an Outreach Worker for their Support in the Community Service, which currently has centres in Ormskirk, Ellel (near Lancaster), Nelson and Padiham. Their role will be to identify veterans who are socially isolated and/or for whom attending the service will support them to continue to live independently. | England/North West | 20,000.00 |
| 2021 | Force For Change | Covenant Fund | Age UK North Yorkshire Coast & Moors | Veterans Link Project | The project will build friendships and reduce isolation, with regular varied activities, where possible in person, and with a mix of indoor and outdoor activities. Their veteran support worker will work with veterans to establish a timetable of activities, such as coffee mornings, quizzes, walking and crafts. | England/North East | 18,691.00 |
| 2021 | Force For Change | Covenant Fund | ARK at Egwood CIC | ARK at Egwood Armed Forces Community Engagement | The organisation will work with local mental health professionals, Armed Forces charities and the local Military establishment, RNAS Yeovilton to promote and deliver activity days and one-to-one support to those in the Forces community experiencing social isolation and mental health difficulties. Activities will include animal husbandry, horticulture, rural arts and dry-stone walling. | England/South West | 18,200.00 |
| 2021 | Force For Change | Covenant Fund | Army Officer Selection Board | Westbury Garden Volunteers | The project will support closer links between the military community associated with Leighton House, and the local community. They will build a meeting focal point in a walled garden and provide seed funding for projects such as planting gap hedge plants in walkways, relining pathways, establishing a potting shed, running tree management days and pond clearance activity, with the aim of bringing together isolated veterans, resettling personnel and Forces families. | England/South West | 19,910.00 |
| 2021 | Force For Change | Covenant Fund | Army Welfare Service Brecon | Nepalese and Cultural Awareness Club | The project will deliver weekly virtual participation group meetings via Zoom where members will have the opportunity to engage in activities of their choice while also following a planned program. There will be cooking, film/book reviews, young person led discussion sessions, quizzes, games and arts/crafts. | Wales | 15,390.00 |
| 2021 | Force For Change | Covenant Fund | Army Welfare Service Community Support Hereford Garrison | Community Integration | The project will reduce isolation and help the community to reconnect by enhancing the families within their existing community centre, providing mental health first aid courses and offering children and young people the chance to take part in a youth leader volunteer programme. | England/West Midlands | 17,050.00 |
| 2021 | Force For Change | Covenant Fund | Brecon High School | 'Keep Growing' | The organisation will develop their good-health gardening-project. They will grow vegetables and fruit that they will use in a lunch club. This will allow the pupils to work outside, develop a connection between Service and civilian children - and to the local natural environment - while supporting their positive well-being and establishing their 'new normal'. | Wales | 4,000.00 |
| 2021 | Force For Change | Covenant Fund | British Limbless Ex-Service Men's Association | Blesma Creative/Therapeutic Activities, South West | The project will deliver creative/therapeutic social inclusion activities for limbless/injured veterans and their families in South West England. They will deliver 24 at home/digital classes including arts/crafts courses, seasonal craft sessions and a 12-week virtual-yoga programme. | England/South West | 15,935.00 |
| 2021 | Force For Change | Covenant Fund | The British Training Board | Veterans Active4Blood | The project will recruit, engage and empower a group of veteran volunteers to form a team and with a close support plan, prepare, create and deliver an Active4Blood Hike Event. This will encourage motivation, achievement and being able to plan a community activity event. There will be hike events throughout Wales and the whole community will be encouraged to get involved. | Wales | 20,000.00 |
| 2021 | Force For Change | Covenant Fund | Brooke House Health and Wellbeing Centre | Fishing for Change | The organisation will add to its nature-based therapy portfolio by creating a volunteer-led fishing hub. This will be a social hub, which supports veterans struggling with social isolation and helps them to engage with others through skill development. Fishing has been identified by existing veterans as an area of interest they would like to develop. | Northern Ireland | 13,820.00 |
| 2021 | Force For Change | Covenant Fund | Caerphilly County Borough Council | AFC access to Mental Health First Aid | The project will deliver training packages for individuals and groups who are working with the Forces community in South Wales to gain recognised qualifications in Mental Health First Aid Training (veteran specific). Once the volunteers/groups are trained this will increase their own personal confidence to work more independently and will enable the groups/organisations to meet more people, which in turn will increase positive outcomes. | Wales | 19,440.00 |
| 2021 | Force For Change | Covenant Fund | Charnwood Borough Council | CMR Armed Forces Covenant Community Outreach Project | The project will empower veterans to connect with their networks and communities by targeting care providers and residential homes with veterans on care plans, groups supporting BAME and LGBTQ+ communities, and veterans in rural communities, through Parish and Town Councils. They will be encouraged to develop champions who can support veterans within their community. | England/East | 20,000.00 |
| 2021 | Force For Change | Covenant Fund | Cheshire East Council | Volunteers –Support for ICT & Digital Skills | Project delivered/partially delivered, with some funding not used | England/North West | 19,941.00 |
| 2021 | Force For Change | Covenant Fund | The Children's Society | Young Carers: Champions for Change | The organisation will recruit 50 young carers from the tri-Forces in Hampshire and Wiltshire in a voluntary programme to become ‘Champions’ of all young carers in Armed Forces Families. They will take part in a training programme and will become volunteers / befrienders for other identified young carers. | England/South East | 19,972.00 |
| 2021 | Force For Change | Covenant Fund | Chiltern Rangers CIC | Forces for Nature | The organisation will address the issue of isolation amongst the Forces community and help people become more active in their local community by providing opportunities to form new friendships, support networks and develop an increased sense of community. Groups and individuals will be invited to deliver practical conservation including habitat restoration and creation. 20 outdoor sessions will take place at various locations including urban woodlands and Buckinghamshire’s rare chalk streams and grasslands. | England/South East | 18,600.00 |
| 2021 | Force For Change | Covenant Fund | Cardiff Council | Digital Activities to Real Friendships | The project will deliver a two-strand project for the Forces community, running two tailored 10-week ‘Digital Storytelling’ courses in addition to delivering weekly online family activities such as quizzes, coding tutorials and team board/online game sessions. The ‘Digital Storytelling’ courses will empower participants to challenge perceptions of the Armed Forces Community by supporting them to tell their story in a short film. | Wales | 19,950.00 |
| 2021 | Force For Change | Covenant Fund | City of York Council | Forces Breakfast Hubs | Project delivered/partially delivered, with some funding not used | England/North East | 19,000.00 |
| 2021 | Force For Change | Covenant Fund | Climbing Out | Climbing Out Armed Forces Support Programme | The project will deliver a three-stage support programme for veterans within the West Midlands. This will include online workshops, walk and talk days and five-day outdoor activity programmes. | England/West Midlands | 20,000.00 |
| 2021 | Force For Change | Covenant Fund | Countryside Services - Hampshire County Council | Rights of Way Task Force | The project will work with Walking With the Wounded, and will enable veterans to take part in active projects within the countryside where they can take part in practical projects such as making gates. The project will support veterans with particular needs including those who are unemployed, and single veterans with mental health issues who live alone. | England/South East | 20,000.00 |
| 2021 | Force For Change | Covenant Fund | Denbighshire County Council | Force for Change Employment Mentor | The project will develop a pilot Employment Mentor role specific to veterans with a view to extending across North Wales next year. Veterans will be allocated an Employment Mentor. They will establish what matters most; what is important to them and for them to stay healthy and safe in the future, and how they can support them to achieve their goals. | Wales | 20,000.00 |
| 2021 | Force For Change | Covenant Fund | Durham County Council | Through Soldiers’ Eyes | The project will offer creative opportunities, working with partners delivering creative workshops to veterans who are isolated or working through issues. This will include a community wide engagement project, including a gallery exhibition at Bishop Auckland Town Hall, showing trench art, contemporary pieces by veterans and serving personnel and their families. It will feature wall mounted artwork, sculptures, oral, visual and written elements taking its audience on a journey through Armed Forces life in times of peace, conflict, repatriation, and rehabilitation and raise awareness of our armed forces communities living among us. | England/North East | 15,000.00 |
| 2021 | Force For Change | Covenant Fund | Forces Children Scotland | 'Forces Life': A Board Game | The project will co-design and produce 100 Snakes-&-Ladders-Style ‘Forces Life’ Board Games & accompanying Comic Books with Forces young people in their forums. These resources will explore sensitive issues that can be tricky to talk about such as deployment, bereavement and bullying, as well as positives of being from a Forces family, such as making new friends, travelling and experiencing other cultures. | Scotland | 19,680.00 |
| 2021 | Force For Change | Covenant Fund | Forces Employment Charity | TechVets Programme | The project will deliver a digital learning pathway, developed by industry professionals from within the TechVets membership, including advice on career pathways, CV workshops, free training resources and a connection to other veterans and mentors | UK-wide | 20,000.00 |
| 2021 | Force For Change | Covenant Fund | Forces in the Community | Forces for Good | The project will provide opportunities for more isolated members of the Armed Forces community to take part in activities that improve general wellbeing, by founding Forces for Good as a virtual hub. They will recruit and train five veteran volunteers in digital marketing. | England/East | 20,000.00 |
| 2021 | Force For Change | Covenant Fund | Foundation of Light | Team Talk | The 'Team Talk' project is designed to improve physical and mental wellbeing outcomes within male veterans at risk of isolation. Social football participation opportunities will be the catalyst for engaging veterans in supported learning situations which reduce loneliness, enhance mental resilience, and empower aspirations. | England/North East | 19,290.00 |
| 2021 | Force For Change | Covenant Fund | Art workshop | Fun First Babies & Toddlers | The organisation will enhance their offering to children aged 0-3 from armed forces families. They will expand to include an outreach session to geographically dispersed families and will initially deliver three sessions per week. | Scotland | 19,983.00 |
| 2021 | Force For Change | Covenant Fund | Glyn-Gaer Primary School | Our Village in WW1 | The project will connect pupils with veterans in their local area to create a digital iMovie showing how the roll call moves to its new home, pay for the re-siting, creating a fitting monument to the men who served and died. The iMovie will become a resource to use in history lessons for the future. | Wales | 7,000.00 |
| 2021 | Force For Change | Covenant Fund | Greater Manchester Combined Authority | GM Armed Forces Tackling Loneliness | The project will provide bespoke Armed Forces Covenant awareness training and development for staff and volunteers in the Community Hubs, so that members of the Armed Forces community can be identified and appropriately signposted to local, community-based support near them | England/North West | 20,000.00 |
| 2021 | Force For Change | Covenant Fund | Groundwork Greater Manchester | Operation Re-Org Fights the Force | The project will continue to support elderly and vulnerable veterans with their needs in and around their house from simple household DIY jobs, maintaining their gardens for easy access, growing the buddy-buddy system by getting the more able to call in on the less able and/or speaking to them on the phone regularly, continue with delivering emergency readymade meals and everyday shopping | England/North West | 20,000.00 |
| 2021 | Force For Change | Covenant Fund | Hampshire County Council | Volunteers for Veterans: Ringwood | The organisation will provide a weekly group for Veterans' Hub participants, at Ringwood library, to provide opportunities for social contact and access to support services. | England/South East | 19,540.00 |
| 2021 | Force For Change | Covenant Fund | Home-Start Medway | Be A Force Against Loneliness | The organisation will use their grant continue to offer sessions and extend and develop their work to include an additional fortnightly family music group. Funding will cover consumable resources for the groups, music group tutor, cookery ingredients and contribute towards associated staff costs. | England/South East | 20,000.00 |
| 2021 | Force For Change | Covenant Fund | HQ Woodbridge Station (23 Para Engr Regt) | Poppies Coffee Lounge Welfare Enhancements | The organisation will enhance the existing provision of the Poppies café, to include a play area. This will encourage young families to come out of their homes and reduce their feeling of isolation and loneliness. | England/East | 10,884.00 |
| 2021 | Force For Change | Covenant Fund | Hull 4 Heroes | Veterans Growth Programme | The organisation will build upon their current work in providing veterans and their families of all generations with the skills and tools to develop their own personal gardening and cooking skills, whilst also creating large and productive sustainable gardens within their local communities. They will offer online cookery cooking classes for veterans and their families, to increase nutrition knowledge, cooking skills, and build confidence in cooking at home with healthy, nutritious foods. | England/North East | 19,113.00 |
| 2021 | Force For Change | Covenant Fund | Imperial Grand Black Chapter of the British Commonwealth | Royal blacks veterans care and support programme | Constriction of a new 2000 square foot regional hub to serve the needs of multiple stakeholders (with a particular focus on the armed forces community). The space will facilitate a number of social activities including health and wellbeing/sporting activities, signposting to services and awareness of financial and social opportunities and general use. | Northern Ireland | 20,000.00 |
| 2021 | Force For Change | Covenant Fund | Kent Coast Volunteering | Nepalese Digital Inclusion Programme | The organisation will improve the digital skills of those aged 50 and over in the Nepalese Ghurkha community. They will help people get started with email, browsing the internet, managing their health online (through GP and NHS services), and have fun using digital technology | England/South East | 19,826.00 |
| 2021 | Force For Change | Covenant Fund | The League of Remembrance | Unlocking Opportunities For Veterans | The project will work with Early Service Leavers and the wider Forces community They plan to develop a relationship with the Regional PRU/PRC serving Colchester, and will deliver a volunteer programme, matching volunteers to placements in hospitals and elsewhere. | England/London | 16,486.00 |
| 2021 | Force For Change | Covenant Fund | Leigh Youth and Community Development Trust | Virtual Veterans Support Hub | The organisation will deliver activity sessions to cater for young and older veterans. This will include fitness classes/dance classes online. This will include weekly online and socially distanced mental health talking groups, specifically for veterans to talk amongst peers about their worries, concerns, and feelings in a group environment without judgment. | England/North West | 19,350.00 |
| 2021 | Force For Change | Covenant Fund | Irish Linen Centre & Lisburn Museum | Lisburn Museum Veterans Engagement Programme | The project will create a cohort of museum staff, serving personnel, veterans and participants from local community groups. The group will choose a topic to research over 12 months, producing an exhibition, an online exhibition or a publication. | Northern Ireland | 20,000.00 |
| 2021 | Force For Change | Covenant Fund | Lisburn Branch Royal British Legion | Veterans Breakfast Clubs Coach Trips | The organisation will renovate their kitchen, which is in significant need of repair. This will allow them to run breakfast club activities. Activities will also include coach trips and guest speakers | Northern Ireland | 18,726.00 |
| 2021 | Force For Change | Covenant Fund | Marlborough Infant School | Marlborough's Community Garden | Many children at the school come from armed forces families and the school backs onto an Army base. The project will encourage families from armed forces and civilian communities to come into the school grounds and take part in gardening projects together. | England/South East | 1,082.00 |
| 2021 | Force For Change | Covenant Fund | Milton Keynes Dons Sport and Education Trust | SET For Change | The organisation will deliver both the 'Talking Tactics’ and ‘At the Double’ programmes. Each programme will consist of ten, 2-hour sessions being delivered to five cohorts. An individual session will comprise a groupwork session involving discussions and activities, and a physical activity session. Talking Tactics is aimed at adults, increasing confidence and reducing social isolation. At the Double will be aimed at families from Forces communities - learning through interactive educational activities using arts, crafts and IT | England/South East | 20,000.00 |
| 2021 | Force For Change | Covenant Fund | Ministry of Defence - Worthy Down Barracks | Community Matters | The organisation will run separate, 'bubbled projects' for different age groups in areas that affect them. They will open a youth club to support the complex needs of young people, bringing them together in a safe environment where they can have fun, learn new skills, such as cooking, creativity, music, education support, physical programmes and direct mental health projects. | England/South East | 3,000.00 |
| 2021 | Force For Change | Covenant Fund | Never Such Innocence | Creative Connections for Community Unity | The project will provide opportunities for families, veterans and communities to come together, during a challenging time with Covid paired with active deployments affecting communities. They will invite intergenerational participation in their arts-based programme, including poetry and art workshops, with all work created being put together into a digital book. | England/North East | 18,250.00 |
| 2021 | Force For Change | Covenant Fund | North Ayrshire Council, Communities and Education Directorate | Ground Force - nurturing heroes. | The organisation will use the outdoors to improve health and wellbeing of the Forces community. There will be physical sessions, development of a tree nursery and growing food. These activities are designed to build community cohesion and address isolation. | Scotland | 17,250.00 |
| 2021 | Force For Change | Covenant Fund | North Yorkshire Hospice Care (Saint Michael's Hospice) | Volunteer Visitors Help for Heroes | The project will recruit and train additional volunteers and promote their service to new veterans and organisations. Volunteers will make home visits to aged veterans and will help veterans take part in events such as coffee mornings and craft workshops. | England/North East | 8,519.00 |
| 2021 | Force For Change | Covenant Fund | Northamptonshire County Council | Armed Forces Community Support Hubs | The project will develop community ‘one-stop shops’ or Hubs throughout Northamptonshire and, because transport can be an issue, these will be in locations accessible by the Armed Forces community. The Hubs will provide a warm and welcoming place where any member of the Armed Forces community can go to for support, advice and comradeship | England/East | 20,000.00 |
| 2021 | Force For Change | Covenant Fund | Northern Ireland Garrison Support Unit (NIGSU) - Antrim Branch | Outdoor community fitness project. | The project will provide the opportunity to use outdoor gym equipment to improve mental and physical health within Aldergrove Flying Station | Northern Ireland | 20,000.00 |
| 2021 | Force For Change | Covenant Fund | Priory Church in Wales Primary School | Adventurous play experiences | The project will further establish an area for adventurous play, supporting health and wellbeing for children from serving families; and allow a safe and secure place for the school community to play. | Wales | 19,900.00 |
| 2021 | Force For Change | Covenant Fund | RAF Brize Norton | COMPASS (Children of Military Parents accessing SEN Support) | The organisation will commission 10 hours a month of parenting support for military parents who have a child with an additional need. They will also recruit and provide training to COMPASS champions and will work with Carterton Family Centre to deliver SEN family events | England/South East | 20,000.00 |
| 2021 | Force For Change | Covenant Fund | RAF ODIHAM | The Wider Audience | The project will internally update and make safe a families' club at RAF Odiham for use as a contact centre for families, local groups and for wider social engagement. | England/South East | 18,261.00 |
| 2021 | Force For Change | Covenant Fund | RAF ODIHAM | Families Matter | The project will externally update and make safe a families' club at RAF Odiham for use as a contact centre for families, local groups and for wider social engagement. This will include outdoor areas and installing WIFI | England/South East | 9,269.00 |
| 2021 | Force For Change | Covenant Fund | RAF Wyton Community Support | Reaching out to our Community | The organisation will put raised beds, benches, lights and a BBQ area, into a secluded and safe area for the children to play in - bringing the community out of their homes and giving sing | England/East | 20,000.00 |
| 2021 | Force For Change | Covenant Fund | Raising Health (Charity body of Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust) | Buddy 2 Buddy Veteran's Programme | Project delivered/partially delivered, with some funding not used | England/East | 15,926.00 |
| 2021 | Force For Change | Covenant Fund | Remembering Our Roots CIC | NINE S.H.I.P.S Veterans Project | The organisation will deliver monthly bushcraft days, open to all veterans, and a weekly zoom call to explore emotions and develop the capacity for participants to express themselves safely. Finally, those involved will work towards a level 2 'Foundation in Bushcraft skills' and level 3 'Foraging' accreditation | England/South West | 18,313.60 |
| 2021 | Force For Change | Covenant Fund | Rhondda Cynon Taf County Borough Council | Veterans Connected | The organisation will use funding to purchase tablet computers for veterans. Training on how to use the devices will be included and veterans will be encouraged to use them to take part in a timetable of events | Wales | 18,900.00 |
| 2021 | Force For Change | Covenant Fund | Richmondshire Community and Voluntary Action | Gurkha Community Connections | The organisation will recruit a part time volunteer coordinator to recruit, train and manage volunteers to deliver a programme of activities will then include healthy lifestyles, wellbeing and skill development sessions for veterans. | England/North East | 19,616.00 |
| 2021 | Force For Change | Covenant Fund | Royal Naval Association (Wear Branch) Sunderland | Dry dock refit part II | The organisation will carry out much needed refurbishments including removal of the old cooker, warming ovens, fridge, sinks and cupboards, damaged ceiling and lighting, remove part of the partition wall to give greater access and better layout. A new kitchen will then be installed to provide a safe, secure, warm and comfortable meeting place for the veterans’ community where they can socialise and feel at home with likeminded people and reduce isolation | England/North East | 17,750.00 |
| 2021 | Force For Change | Covenant Fund | Salford Red Devils Foundation | Together Team | The organisation will deliver the 'Together Team' project for veterans, consisting of 'Into work': readiness sessions, employability and work placement opportunities. 'Back to sport': physical activity sessions each week with pathways to complete coaching qualifications. 'The sheds': an online opportunity to interact with peers and build friendships. | England/North West | 16,990.00 |
| 2021 | Force For Change | Covenant Fund | Schomberg Society Kilkeel Ltd | Veterans On The Airwaves! | The project will engage hard-to-reach and isolated veterans and families to participate in a community radio/media project. They will engage two groups of veterans and families to participate in two, 24-week media/radio training programmes, gaining digital skills and experience to participate in a community radio broadcast | Northern Ireland | 20,000.00 |
| 2021 | Force For Change | Covenant Fund | Shy Lowen | Shy Lowen - Veterans Volunteering Project | The project will support 30 veterans to volunteer and take part in wellbeing activities at Shy Lowen over 6 months. The project will be led by 5 volunteers, who are veterans from Tom Harrison House who will engage/mentor/support new service-users. They will support staff with the delivery and supervision of activities, which will include education days, volunteering opportunities and activity days, all with an equine focus | England/North West | 16,282.00 |
| 2021 | Force For Change | Covenant Fund | South Tyneside Metropolitan Borough Council | South Tyneside Linking Forces Support | The project will offer coaching local people with an Armed Forces connection who have been identified as needing additional support, aiming to help people from Armed Forces communities feel more connected to their local area, and understand the wider support on offer. The coaching sessions will include setting achievable goals. | England/North East | 20,000.00 |
| 2021 | Force For Change | Covenant Fund | Communities and Prevention Manager, Surrey County Council | Veterans – Care Homes and Community | Project delivered/partially delivered, with some funding not used | England/South East | 20,000.00 |
| 2021 | Force For Change | Covenant Fund | Team Endeavour Racing UK CIC | Vocational Powerboat Training 2021 | The organisation will run VHF radio training and powerboat level 2 and 3 training. This will enable veterans to undertake vocational training within the wider community. Working with local sailing clubs, the organisation will develop their beneficiaries to become more active in the local maritime community, both on the water and off. | England/South East | 18,500.00 |
| 2021 | Force For Change | Covenant Fund | UNITY (SOUTHERN) LTD | Veterans as digital champions | The organisation will extend their digital literacy work, using veteran volunteers to provide one-to-one support through the organisation's Covid-19 helpline, and help with designing online teaching materials to help with using technology to stay connected. | England/South East | 13,673.00 |
| 2021 | Force For Change | Covenant Fund | The VC Gallery | Ex Forces Volunteer Coordinator | The organisation will use their grant to extend their provision to offer activities in the evenings to reduce the isolation of those who cannot make their usual day time activity programme. | Wales | 20,000.00 |
| 2021 | Force For Change | Covenant Fund | Veterans Outdoors | Growing Together | The organisation will bring veterans together with their local communities in multiple small towns and villages where they live. They will undertake outdoor projects such as clearing, tidying and planting, and creation of a new sensory garden. | England/South West | 20,000.00 |
| 2021 | Force For Change | Covenant Fund | Veterans Woodcraft CIC | Veterans Art Project | Project delivered/partially delivered, with some funding not used | England/North East | 20,000.00 |
| 2021 | Force For Change | Covenant Fund | Walking With the Wounded | OP-REGEN | OP-REGEN is designed to help veterans reintegrate into civilian society. Walking with the Wounded will work alongside local businesses, council, schools and individuals to regenerate their community using skills such as planning, logistics and co-ordination. | England/North West | 20,000.00 |
| 2021 | Force For Change | Covenant Fund | Warwickshire County Council | AF Families Covenant Toolkit (formerly - Temple Herdewyke Spouse Health and Wellbeing Network) | The organisation will develop a 'Community Catalyst' role who will work with Armed Forces families to help develop health and wellbeing opportunities, support the reopening of the community centre, and organise an Armed Forces Day event within Burton Dassett parish. | England/West Midlands | 10,950.00 |
| 2021 | Force For Change | Covenant Fund | Warwickshire County Council | AF Spouse Development Programme (formerly - Wellsbourne Veteran Volunteers) | The organisation will develop two 'Veteran Volunteer Catalyst' roles, ideally veterans, who will be given ongoing training and support to identify people within the community to develop community projects such as renovation of a community building, clearing and sorting an elderly veterans’ garden and recruiting veterans to engage in a range of volunteer opportunities within the community. | England/West Midlands | 10,000.00 |
| 2021 | Force For Change | Covenant Fund | Wattisham Flying Station | Park wood development | The organisation will transform Park Wood, an unused ash wood on the base, and the surrounding area, into a series of woodland walks, picnic areas with BBQs and children's seating, outdoor educational zones, fitness zones and quiet areas. This transformation will provide a space where the community, military and civilian, can relax, share with their families, keep fit and develop their mental wellbeing. | England/East | 20,000.00 |
| 2021 | Force For Change | Covenant Fund | Wavell Community Schools' Federation (Infant & Nursery and Junior Federation) | Forest School Project | The project will give children from Armed Forces families the opportunity to take part in Forest School sessions, helping them develop stronger links with children from civilian communities. They will also invite parents to volunteer and support these experiences, reducing isolation for non-working parents and helping parents to bond with their child outdoors. | England/North East | 20,000.00 |
| 2021 | Force For Change | Covenant Fund | Weeton Primary School | Empowering voices of service children | The organisation will develop a peer-leadership model where service children co-produce resources and creative programmes underpinned by the seven principles of effective support. This project is an initial pilot between years 5/6 at Weeton Primary and years 7/8 at Carr Hill Secondary Schools. Sessions will be designed to be pupil centred with an understanding of the challenges and opportunities Service children face, particularly as participants progress from primary to secondary education and experience interruptions to life as a military family. | England/North West | 19,980.00 |
| 2021 | Force For Change | Covenant Fund | Welsh Local Government Association | Bringing Little Troopers to Wales | The project will support primary schools in Wales to become more Armed Forces friendly – by providing them with appropriate and relevant resources (in English and Welsh) that will help them to gain a better understanding of the experiences of Armed Forces families and Service children and how to support them. They will provide Little Troopers books to 400 primary schools in Wales, undertake the Little Troopers' wellbeing course and the Little Troopers' roadshow | Wales | 19,300.00 |
| 2021 | Force For Change | Covenant Fund | Work Place Chaplaincy Scotland | Veterans Chaplaincy Scotland Volunteer Training. | The project will recruit, train and equip up to 10 veterans to become veteran chaplains. Once trained the veterans will deliver a chaplaincy service to the veterans’ community in Scotland. | Scotland | 12,800.00 |
| 2021 | Force For Change | Covenant Fund | 17 Port & Maritime Regiment RLC, Mulberry Community and Families Centre | Exercise SERENE SEAHORSE | The organisation will use this small grant to deliver a twoweek long project to promote resilience and general wellbeing within the regiment, to include interactive lectures and physical activity. | England/South East | 600.00 |
| 2021 | Force For Change | Covenant Fund | 9 Regiment RLC | 9 Regiment Open House | 9 Regiment RLC will use this grant to support the development of a new contact house and improve the community centre. These improvements will increase the appeal and cohesion of all members of the regiment, from single solders to married with families, and incorporating all ranks | England/South West | 9,842.00 |
| 2021 | Force For Change | Covenant Fund | Abberton Rural Training (ART) | ‘Quick Start’ Rustic Recovery | The organisation will ‘quick start’ isolated veterans and wounded and injured (WIS) military Service personnel on a Rustic Recovery Programme. The project will address a backlog (due to Covid 19) of individuals waiting to start their mental and physical recovery through horticulture, woodlands and other land-based skills training. | England/East | 9,976.00 |
| 2021 | Force For Change | Covenant Fund | AFC Fylde Community Foundation | Just Join In | Just Join In will provide a range of activities for serving families of The Mercian Regiment that have recently arrived at Weeton Barracks. The activities will improve their health and wellbeing as well as helping them to become more engaged in their local community and reducing social isolation and loneliness. | England/North West | 9,950.00 |
| 2021 | Force For Change | Covenant Fund | Age UK Leicestershire & Rutland | Joining Forces Engaging Together Project | The Joining Forces - Engaging Together Project aims to both reduce the levels of social isolation and loneliness experienced by older veterans during the Covid-19 Crisis and encourage them to re-engage in local community activities. Veterans will be supported tore-establish feelings of being connected to others and local services. | England/East | 10,000.00 |
| 2021 | Force For Change | Covenant Fund | Age UK Mid Mersey | Mersey Veterans Together (v3) | The Mersey Veterans Together (v3) project is aimed at tackling isolation, loneliness and the adverse impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic on older veterans by providing personcentred wellbeing support and activities that encourage and enable them to ‘Love Later Life’. | England/North West | 10,000.00 |
| 2021 | Force For Change | Covenant Fund | Age UK North Yorkshire and Darlington | Older Veteran Community Engagement | The organisation will deliver weekly Veterans' Cafés and Veterans' Befriending in Skipton, Darlington, Northallerton and Richmondshire. These will be run by and for ex-Service men and women, providing a place for older veterans to meet, make new friends, take part in activities and enjoy mutual support and camaraderie. | England/North East | 10,000.00 |
| 2021 | Force For Change | Covenant Fund | Age UK Sunderland | Supporting Our Veteran Heroes | AUKS will offer older members of the local veteran community structured opportunities to come together and share experiences, stories, make connections, keep mentally active, learn new skills and gain new knowledge. They will attend three, 12-week groups of 10 participants with skilled tutors | England/North East | 9,999.00 |
| 2021 | Force For Change | Covenant Fund | Dame Agnes Westons Royal Charity for the Naval Service | Aggie’s Community Waves (Portsmouth_Plymouth) | Aggie Weston’s community Pastoral Workers are responding to the need for post-Covid recovery and support to be provided to the naval communities. Aggie’s will provide safe spaces for families to meet, through gatherings in the Plymouth and Portsmouth areas, to expand the activities enabling signposting and support. | England/South East | 9,525.00 |
| 2021 | Force For Change | Covenant Fund | Amicus Trust Limited. | Activities for isolated homeless veterans | The organisation will use sports and meaningful activities to reduce isolation, improve wellbeing and increase confidence for veterans suffering homelessness and mental health conditions | England/East | 10,000.00 |
| 2021 | Force For Change | Covenant Fund | Armed Forces Community Support Hub (Devon) | COVID and Beyond 2021. | This focused project will give all members of the local Armed Forces community the opportunity to have a central welcoming Hub, with support, to facilitate the transition into the digitalised world and provide safe access to online services having a sustainable positive impact on health, housing, education, employment and welfare. | England/South West | 10,000.00 |
| 2021 | Force For Change | Covenant Fund | Army Welfare Service | Wild Weeton Community Garden | Weeton is a remote camp, and the 2 MERCIAN unit are new to the area having relocated from Cyprus in the height of the Covid 19 Lockdown. Funding will be used to engage the isolated community in a gardening project where they can prepare, grow, maintain and cook produce. | England/North West | 8,220.00 |
| 2021 | Force For Change | Covenant Fund | Army Welfare Service Northern Ireland | IMPACT | The organisation will work with veterans and families throughout NI, offering breakfast and lunch clubs that will reduce isolation. The project is particularly focused on the North Down & Ards Peninsula and Belfast areas. | Northern Ireland | 10,000.00 |
| 2021 | Force For Change | Covenant Fund | Art Space G41 CIC | Create and Make Ceramics Together | The project will provide eight-week ceramic course for veterans, Reserves, serving personnel and their families. They will learn new pottery techniques through projects, then glaze their ceramic creations - all in a safe and social environment. | Scotland | 10,000.00 |
| 2021 | Force For Change | Covenant Fund | Beyond the Battlefield | Veterans Meet Up Lunch Club | The organisation will work with veterans and families throughout NI, offering breakfast and lunch clubs that will reduce isolation. The project is particularly focused on the North Down & Ards Peninsula and Belfast areas. | Northern Ireland | 9,764.00 |
| 2021 | Force For Change | Covenant Fund | The Bolton Guild of Help | Bridging the Gap | During and after Covid, this project will provide ways and means to continue delivering ongoing support to veterans and their families within the Borough of Bolton. It will help to tackle issues of loneliness and isolation and provide access to both practical and pastoral support as, when and where required. | England/North West | 9,180.00 |
| 2021 | Force For Change | Covenant Fund | Brecknock Play Network | Stay and Play | The project will deliver regular open access play sessions within Infantry Battle School (IBS) Camp and its outlying community where Service families are based. These will be child-led, building confidence, resilience and self-esteem in the children while building on an integration between civilian and military participants within the local community | Wales | 7,350.00 |
| 2021 | Force For Change | Covenant Fund | Caerphilly County Borough Council | Veterans Support Group Caerphilly Borough | The organisation will develop an in-depth directory of support, organisations and activities available to the Armed Forces community for South East Wales. This directory will enable members of the AFC and support organisations to access information and will navigate through the options available; and will be designed to support people from Armed Forces communities that may struggle to access information through digital means | Wales | 10,000.00 |
| 2021 | Force For Change | Covenant Fund | Caerphilly County Borough Council | Armed Forces Directory of Support | The Veteran Support Group will work with veterans and Service personnel, developing their confidence and skills to access the help they need, where and when they need it. It will reinforce people's self-reliance, esteem, and selfempowerment. It will be a place where veterans feel they 'Belong' | Wales | 9,000.00 |
| 2021 | Force For Change | Covenant Fund | Carnagill Primary School | Supporting Service Children to ‘THRIVE’ | The organisation will identify and address gaps caused by the unique stressors Service children face and the disruption to their development. This funding will enable targeted work with Service pupils and their families. Service pupils will be able to access 1:1 or small groups designed to support and address any gaps in their development. These strategies and interventions will be shared, strengthening links with parents and carers. | England/North East | 10,000.00 |
| 2021 | Force For Change | Covenant Fund | Cardiff Council | Get Active Social Group | The project will deliver a timetable of engaging activities to bring together members of the Armed Forces community and 'Civvy' communities through the enjoyment of being active. Attendees will meet new people from all different backgrounds and communities, building friendships and strengthening community ties through group activities designed to get people moving. | Wales | 9,956.00 |
| 2021 | Force For Change | Covenant Fund | Cranwell Primary School | Trim Trail Aiding Social Integration | Funding will be used to build a Trim Trail for children attending RAF Cranwell’s local primary school. Trim Trails encourage children to engage with their peers thus aiding social integration between military and civilian children; help children learn about taking risks in a safe environment; allow children to challenge themselves; promote fitness & mental wellbeing. | England/East | 10,000.00 |
| 2021 | Force For Change | Covenant Fund | Crimsham Farm CIC | Crimsham Farm Vets Support Group | Crimsham Farm Vets Support Group is a safe space for veterans to come together in a social and supportive network. Through activities such as animal care, horticulture, and woodwork, veterans can learn skills, improve their mental health and wellbeing, and be supported by other veterans to integrate into their civilian community | England/South East | 9,992.00 |
| 2021 | Force For Change | Covenant Fund | Family Friends in Windsor and Maidenhead | Families Together | Families Together builds on the organisation's specialist support for Armed Forces families and children in Windsor. Bespoke support will help Army families feel happier, more connected and more resilient, able to overcome the challenges and isolation of Covid19 restrictions and enjoy family and wider community life in future. | England/South East | 10,000.00 |
| 2021 | Force For Change | Covenant Fund | Firing Line | The Abandoned Soldier Memorial Garden | The Firing Line will create a garden surrounding the Statue of the Abandoned Soldier, designed, built and maintained by veterans and volunteers from the local community. The project will provide a safe, welcoming space for veterans and volunteers to engage, reconnect and create new friendship/support groups, through gardening activities. | Wales | 10,000.00 |
| 2021 | Force For Change | Covenant Fund | FirstLight Trust | Be Active. Be Healthy | This project will give veterans the opportunity to take part in weekly six-a -side football or tennis. The project builds on successful virtual activities that were delivered through the Covid pandemic. | England/West Midlands | 10,000.00 |
| 2021 | Force For Change | Covenant Fund | Forward Assist | Veterans Health & Wellbeing Hub | The veterans’ health and wellbeing hub incorporates a veteran-run community cafe and daily activities to reduce social isolation and loneliness. Funding will help the organisation to reopen their community cafe following shutdown due to Covid, and welcome veterans back into the centre. Reopening the cafe and activities will be a significant step forward to support veterans, and veterans are able to access a range of services and support at the Hub. | England/North East | 10,000.00 |
| 2021 | Force For Change | Covenant Fund | The Game Change Project CIC | Fast Track Futures | Fast Track Futures will empower ex-Service personnel in rural mid-Wales to become more engaged in their local area by mentoring young people. Working alongside the organisation's professional staff, veterans will support disengaged young people to participate in activities including vehicle maintenance, working with horses, conservation and other community projects. | Wales | 9,360.00 |
| 2021 | Force For Change | Covenant Fund | Gateway Primary School | 'The Hanger' family hub | The Hanger family hub will welcome local families to engage in social events and support from the school family support worker; supporting those new to the area, families who have a partner deployed and families with limited local support, with regular coffee mornings and stay and play sessions. | England/South East | 9,770.00 |
| 2021 | Force For Change | Covenant Fund | Gloucester Rugby Foundation | Veterans Activity Hub | ‘Veterans Activity Hub’ will sustain provision of weekly ‘rugby inspired’ sessions for veterans of all ages with a focus on reducing inequalities that have heightened throughout the Covid-19 pandemic. Work readiness support, group mental fitness activities, physical activity, and sport-based reminiscence will all be made available through ‘Hub’ sessions. | England/South West | 9,985.00 |
| 2021 | Force For Change | Covenant Fund | Hampshire Cultural Trust | Creative Wellbeing: Military Heritage | Aldershot Military Museum will provide weekly workshops to local veterans, in partnership with Combat Stress, engaging with the museum’s collection and utilising art as a form of self-expression, reducing loneliness and improving mental health and wellbeing. | England/South East | 7,860.00 |
| 2021 | Force For Change | Covenant Fund | HMS Protector | AFCS support to HMS PROTECTOR | Project delivered/partially delivered, with some funding not used | UK-wide | 9,000.00 |
| 2021 | Force For Change | Covenant Fund | Leeds United Foundation | Combat Cafe | The organisation will deliver weekly combat cafe events at Leeds United FC (Elland Road) whereby they provide veterans of all ages with the opportunity to come together for a chat and a bite to eat as well as the chance to take part in facilitated 'walk and talk' sessions. | England/North East | 10,000.00 |
| 2021 | Force For Change | Covenant Fund | MAB7 | Creating outdoor fun | The project will bring the community back together after Covid; creating a multi-purpose outdoor space whereby all members of the military and civilian community can come together safely. Rebuilding community spirit and building old and new relationships through fun, laughter and the outdoors. | Wales | 10,000.00 |
| 2021 | Force For Change | Covenant Fund | Monmouthshire County Council | Garden of Remembrance | Funding will be used to support veterans with mental health difficulties. This space will provide veterans with an area of quiet contemplation either before and/or after receiving specialist psychological therapy for military attributable mental health difficulties. The organisation will provide a garden as a safe space for veterans and families to meet. | Wales | 7,026.00 |
| 2021 | Force For Change | Covenant Fund | Montgomery Junior School | Parenting Support for Military Families | The organisation will deliver a course to provide parents with guidance and support for their children’s behaviour, mental health and wellbeing, including during periods of deployment and the recent pandemic. This will provide an opportunity for parents to meet and share experiences around any particular issues faced by military families. | England/East | 3,855.00 |
| 2021 | Force For Change | Covenant Fund | Appetite | Appetite for more | Tri-Services & Veteran Support Centre & Appetite will be supporting veterans with the development of new shared arts and cultural related interests and hobbies through the drop-in centre, structured activities in the local area and community and further afield. | England/West Midlands | 10,000.00 |
| 2021 | Force For Change | Covenant Fund | Northen Ireland District Royal British Legion | Snap to Remember | The project will allow veterans across Northern Ireland to get together in a friendly and relaxed atmosphere to work together to build a trike from a donor bike. Veterans will be able to learn new skills and the project will seek to reduce isolation through offering an engaging activity for veterans | Northern Ireland | 10,000.00 |
| 2021 | Force For Change | Covenant Fund | Northen Ireland District Royal British Legion | Build a trike together | The grant will support a photography project for veterans. Veterans will have opportunities to learn new skills and will receive tuition in taking the photographs and editing them by a professional photographer. The project will also ensure that veterans can access the equipment they need. This will culminate in the production of a calendar that will be sold to sustain the project. | Northern Ireland | 10,000.00 |
| 2021 | Force For Change | Covenant Fund | Northern Ireland Garrison Support Unit | Summer For Service Children | The project will seek to reduce the impact that COVID-19 and isolation has had on Service children's social and emotional wellbeing through activities and educational trips over the summer months for children from Armed Forces families. | Northern Ireland | 10,000.00 |
| 2021 | Force For Change | Covenant Fund | On Course Foundation | Veterans Golf, North West England | Funding will assist the organisation with the ongoing delivery of a programme of residential confidence building Golf Skills Development Events for veterans based in the North West of England; offering veterans the opportunity to engage in activities that can have a positive impact on wellbeing. | England/North West | 9,500.00 |
| 2021 | Force For Change | Covenant Fund | Operation Veteran | Operation Bounce Back | Operation Bounce Back will reignite post lockdown in-person services which focus on improving connectivity, building healthy relationships between veterans and the wider community, provide an opportunity to meet regularly, share experiences, access wellbeing and emergency response support. The organisation will facilitate increased activities to promote good mental health and figure out what comes next. | England/North East | 8,824.00 |
| 2021 | Force For Change | Covenant Fund | RAF Brize Norton | RAF Brize Norton Families Club | Funding will be used to improve the RAF Brize Norton Families Club to provide a quality leisure and social space for service personnel and families. With investment to improve the current offer, The Families Club will be a true all ranks space providing support to the station community. | England/South East | 10,000.00 |
| 2021 | Force For Change | Covenant Fund | Regenerate Veterans Group | Heads hands heels | Heads, hands, heels will provide a person-centred, focused project for veterans and their families, reducing social isolation and enabling meaningful engagement with others from a similar background. Delivery will be through socially distanced outdoor activities, workshops and training provision, to enhance the resilience, mental health and wellbeing of veterans. | Northern Ireland | 9,600.00 |
| 2021 | Force For Change | Covenant Fund | Rochdale AFC Football in the Community Trust | Rochdale Forces Family Football | Rochdale AFC Community Trust will continue to provide much-needed support to veterans of all ages - both through access to football and other sporting activities, as well as regular social activities and opportunities for families to come together and take part in positive activities | England/North West | 10,000.00 |
| 2021 | Force For Change | Covenant Fund | Schomberg Society Kilkeel Ltd | Life Skills for Veterans | The Society will engage with veterans in Mourne to participate in a gardening project, encouraging veterans to be more engaged and active within their local community. This project will reduce isolation and combat the effects of loneliness from the pandemic by providing opportunities for veterans to contribute to a major community project. | Northern Ireland | 10,000.00 |
| 2021 | Force For Change | Covenant Fund | Scottish Veterans Residences (SVR) | Art/Craft Veterans Club (ACVC) | The organisation will provide an art and woodworking club for homeless and vulnerable veterans being supported by Scottish Veterans Residences (SVR) as well as isolated veterans in the local community in Glasgow. | Scotland | 10,000.00 |
| 2021 | Force For Change | Covenant Fund | Smart Savings CIC | Veterans Regroup | Veterans Regroup offers a drop-in to support veterans and their families in Cornwall by providing information on money, housing and employment, local events, social activities and arranges food parcels. The drop-in will create volunteering opportunities for veterans to lead activities both virtually and face-to-face. | England/South West | 10,000.00 |
| 2021 | Force For Change | Covenant Fund | Soldiers' Arts Academy CIC | Photography Courses for Veterans | The organisation will run photography courses for the military community. Led by serving photographer Rupert Frere, they constitute weekly online evening sessions. The organisation also plans to introduce further courses and residential weekends in London, Exeter and Yorkshire. They will teach new skills, promote recovery, wellbeing and confidence. | England/South West | 10,000.00 |
| 2021 | Force For Change | Covenant Fund | Soldiers' Arts Academy CIC | SAA Art workshops | The organisation will provide eight, six-week art courses at the Nottingham Society of Artists for WIS and their family members. The courses will be run by local artists Robin Perko and Lt Col. Stewart Hill. An online zoom link will enable additional students to join the class | England/East | 10,000.00 |
| 2021 | Force For Change | Covenant Fund | Spurgeons East Wiltshire CC | Play, Talk and Grow Together | The project will decrease social isolation, improve wellbeing, and enable families to make friendships, including with civilian families. This project will enable families in Tidworth to attend weekly sessions to create a community memorial and garden | England/South West | 8,310.00 |
| 2021 | Force For Change | Covenant Fund | Stable Lives | Stable Lives Respite and Support | Stable Lives provides a calm, quiet place where equine and land-based courses and respite days are offered to military veterans and their families facing mental health challenges. | England/North West | 9,400.00 |
| 2021 | Force For Change | Covenant Fund | Stories Outside CIC | The lamps are going out | To mark Armistice Day 2021 the organisation will develop a creative-arts project, working with military families and veteran communities to create lantern puppets to acknowledge the contributions of animals, particularly those who have been awarded the PDSA Dickin Medal 'For Gallantry' which has been awarded 72 times since 1943. | England/North West | 8,500.00 |
| 2021 | Force For Change | Covenant Fund | Tameside MBC | Tameside’s Dig for the Future | Project delivered/partially delivered, with some funding not used | England/North West | 10,000.00 |
| 2021 | Force For Change | Covenant Fund | The Bridge for Heroes | Project Open Door | allotment space created in partnership with Tameside Armed | England/East | 10,000.00 |
| 2021 | Force For Change | Covenant Fund | RAF Benevolent Fund | THRIVE – supporting RAF spouses/partners | Services Community. There will be cooking lessons provided | Scotland | 9,600.00 |
| 2021 | Force For Change | Covenant Fund | Veterans In Crisis | Crossing the Divide | by The Veterans Food Company, ingredient hampers for | England/North East | 9,924.00 |
| 2021 | Force For Change | Covenant Fund | Veterans Woodcraft CIC | Introduction to CNC Woodworking | participants to take home, and the creation of a recipe | England/North East | 10,000.00 |
| 2021 | Force For Change | Covenant Fund | Walking With the Wounded | OP-REGEN Scotland | booklet for wider distribution across partner agencies | Scotland | 9,750.00 |
| 2021 | Force For Change | Covenant Fund | Walking With the Wounded | OP-REGEN Mission Green | The organisation's existing premises do not offer sufficient space for their veteran beneficiaries to undertake many of the indoor activities in a socially distanced setting. The grant will help the organisation develop an activity centre offering spaces where both meetings and activities can be undertaken in a Covid secure manner. These will include Arts and Crafts, Photography, Cycle Maintenance and Preparation, IT Instruction and tutorials, Fitness and Yoga, Carpentry and general events and training. | England/North West | 9,800.00 |
| 2021 | Force For Change | Covenant Fund | West Lancashire Crisis & Information Centre | VIP (Veterans Inclusion Project) | Veterans in Crisis (VICS) Sunderland aims to encourage participation through the provision of newly created activity groups in light of the relaxation of covid lockdown regulations. In offering a variety of activities, the aim is to appeal to more veterans and their families. | England/North West | 10,000.00 |
| 2021 | Force For Change | Covenant Fund | Wigan Council | Re-Cycling Minds Project | Veterans Woodcraft will deliver a series of CNC (Computer Numerically Controlled) woodworking machine workshops at both their Richmond and Newton Aycliffe workshops to help veterans and/or their spouses out of lockdown. | England/North West | 10,000.00 |
| 2021 | Force For Change | Covenant Fund | Wyton on the Hill Parish Council | Connect and Transform Wyton | The organisation will deliver a series of activities and events designed to unite their mixed community of military and civilian families, building an inclusive and cohesive place to live and thrive, helping to combat loneliness, improve mental health, and supporting each other by enabling several communication channels taking in to account all age groups. | England/East | 10,000.00 |
| 2021 | Force For Change | Covenant Fund | 19th Regiment Royal Artillery (The Scottish Gunners) | Regimental ESports Package | The ‘Regimental E-Sports Package’ project will create an E-Sports facility within the Armed Forces accommodation which will bring people together, build cohesion and team-work. It will help prevent isolation and boredom in the block. It will be accessible to all within the unit, when off duty, including those unable to participate in more physical pursuits. | England/South West | 10,000.00 |
| 2021 | Force For Change | Covenant Fund | 23 Para Engr Regt | Poppies Cafe Enhacements | The grant will enable improvements to be made to Poppies Cafe. This is a meeting place for Service personnel, their families, veterans' and the wider community to meet and access support from outside agencies. This will help people from Armed Forces communities to reconnect with each other. | England/East | 7,500.00 |
| 2021 | Force For Change | Covenant Fund | AA Veterans Support | Tackling isolation through camping | AAVS will use the grant deliver a project for veterans to enjoy camping at the veteran's outdoor recreation centre. Alongside camping veterans will engage in other activities such as fishing, family days, mental health awareness and suicide prevention. | Northern Ireland | 9,959.00 |
| 2021 | Force For Change | Covenant Fund | Armed Forces Community HQ CIC | Veterans’ Maintenance Service | The grant will support the The Veterans’ Maintenance Service which provides general maintenance service which deploys ex-service personnel to serve their local community whilst training in relevant trades. The grant will help the organisation to tailor suppot to each individual to develop pathways to improve mental health snd wellbeing outcomes. | England/North West | 9,970.00 |
| 2021 | Force For Change | Covenant Fund | Armed Forces Community HQ CIC | Armed Forces Community Peer Mentoring | 'The 'Armed Forces Community Peer Mentoring' project will use this grant to develop mentoring provision to train ex-service members to support their peers to set short and medium term goals, provide long term support and tackle social isolation by empowering participants to be better connected within their local community. | England/North West | 10,000.00 |
| 2021 | Force For Change | Covenant Fund | The Armed Forces Equine Charity | Riding to new pathways | Tedworth Equestrian will help 40 young people from serving families with complex behavioural and mental health issues through our equine programmes, which will enable them to develop confidence and coping behaviours, and so make positive changes to achieve better life chances | England/South West | 10,000.00 |
| 2021 | Force For Change | Covenant Fund | Army Welfare Service | Families Together Project | The Families Together Project aims to provide a holistic framework of provision to support parents, carers and children. Sessions will offer support to general wellbeing as well as promote a safe space to connect and meet others in attempts to mitigate isolation and reduce feelings of loneliness. | England/North East | 4,200.00 |
| 2021 | Force For Change | Covenant Fund | Blaby District Council | Armed Forces Wellbeing morning | Blaby District Council will host a monthly ‘Coffee and Wellbeing’ morning for members of the local Armed Forces Community. The coffee morning will provide an opportunity to build meaningful friendships, reduce the risk of isolation and loneliness plus improve mental health and wellbeing in a safe and secure environment. | England/East | 10,000.00 |
| 2021 | Force For Change | Covenant Fund | Blackburn Rovers Community Trust | Rovers Ex Forces Hub | The Rovers Ex-Forces Hub will provide a safe place for ex Armed Forces personnel and families to learn new skills and improve mental & physical wellbeing. Through various activities, the hub will reduce isolation and promote positive integration for anyone who has served in HM Armed Forces and their families. | England/North West | 9,867.00 |
| 2021 | Force For Change | Covenant Fund | Bounce Forward | Raising Mental-Wellbeing with Military Families | Bounce Forward will support military families in the community, to build resilience in an evidenced, lasting and sustainable way, and equip them with skills, enabling them to be the best they can be in the small everyday moments and develop emotional resilience and mental wellbeing. | UK-wide | 9,680.00 |
| 2021 | Force For Change | Covenant Fund | Brooke House Health and Wellbeing Centre | Yesterday-Today-Tomorrow | Brooke House will bring together different of veterans generations to meet, to learn from, to support and enjoy others experiences. | Northern Ireland | 10,000.00 |
| 2021 | Force For Change | Covenant Fund | Broughton House - Veteran Care Village | Bringing Back the Smiles | Due to Covid, Broughton House Care Home residents have been cut off from family/other visitors for well over a year. The grant will enable a 6 month project to take place, providing 1-2-1 company to isolated elderly veterans, and offering opportunties to play games, share stories, or go for gentle walks or outings. | England/North West | 9,648.00 |
| 2021 | Force For Change | Covenant Fund | Brunswick Youth & Community Centre | Operation Cant Cook Will Cook | The project 'Operation Cant Cook Will Cook' with funding will deliver three lots of eight week cookery courses. This will teach veterans skills in healthy eating, managing on a budget as part of a socialising programme and holding a "community cook off!" in the form of a 'Come Dine with Me' Event. | England/North West | 4,967.00 |
| 2021 | Force For Change | Covenant Fund | Citizens Advice Mid North Yorkshire | Citizens Advice Recruiting | 'Citizens Advice Mid North Yorkshire will work with families of serving personnel and veterans to provide supported volunteering opportunities in Richmondshire (Catterick Garrison) focusing on those who are experiencing isolation or looking for skills to access work or improve self confidence. | England/North East | 9,575.00 |
| 2021 | Force For Change | Covenant Fund | City in the Community | Loud and Clear (5x5) | The 'Loud and Clear' program is being funded to show that there is an understanding for Veterans and their families to be heard through football. This includes weekly football sessions for Veterans and serving personnel. Extended work includes NAAFI breaks and mental health support for Veterans, serving personnel, and their families. | England/North West | 10,000.00 |
| 2021 | Force For Change | Covenant Fund | City of Hull Sport and Community Group CIC | Twelve Rounds to Wellbeing | With this grant, ‘Twelve Rounds to Wellbeing’ is an intervention developed by Veterans, for Veterans. Using boxing as a catalyst, E28 of all ages living in the fourth most deprived community in England will engage in weekly sessions to help build upon reintegration, physical health, and mental wellbeing. | England/North East | 9,870.00 |
| 2021 | Force For Change | Covenant Fund | Clervaux Trust | Boosting Resilience Through Craft | The Fold Family Centre will offer 12 monthly activity days, 'Boosting Resilience Through Craft', for Armed Forces families, encouraging interaction with local civilian families. With textiles, pottery, horticulture, animal husbandry and nature-based crafts on offer, these activities will help boost social confidence for all ages, particularly post Covid, and help families make precious memories again. | England/North East | 9,920.00 |
| 2021 | Force For Change | Covenant Fund | Colburn Hub and Cafe C.I.C. | PULL UP A SANDBAG! | This will support the, 'Pull up a Sandbag' project, which will provide Veterans breakfasts and opportunities to bring people together within Catterick Garrison, help to build a closer community following the Covid pandemic | England/North East | 10,000.00 |
| 2021 | Force For Change | Covenant Fund | Colerne CE Primary School | Armed Forces Music Provision | Colerne CE Primary School will work with children from Armed Forces families to help them develop musical skills that can also boost confidence, helping them learn how to play in a group and perform to others. | England/South West | 8,190.00 |
| 2021 | Force For Change | Covenant Fund | Colgrain Primary School and ELC | Connecting Families at Colgrain Hub | 'The grant will enable the organisation to create the 'Colgrain Primary School Family Hub' to connect families from Armed Forces Communities and non-forces families. The Colgrain Community is transient in nature, and the Hub will support the development of new relationships, knowledge and skills through community and family learning projects. | Scotland | 10,000.00 |
| 2021 | Force For Change | Covenant Fund | Company of Makers | Armed Forces Community Photography Club | Co-created with Veterans, this Company of Makers’ 12 month project brings the Armed Forces community together online to share their interest in photography and also to develop their creative and technical skills. All Serving, Reservists, Veterans and partners are welcome, from beginners using mobile phones to enthusiasts with DSLR cameras. | England/South East | 10,000.00 |
| 2021 | Force For Change | Covenant Fund | Company of Makers | Armed Forces Community Writing Club | The grant will support the 'Armed Forces Community Writing Club' project which will enable veterans explore popular culture, books and authors to develop their own writing style and technique. Any veteran with enthusiasm and internet access can join in, from novices to the more advanced. This Company of Makers online project encourages creativity and helps participants to find their own voice. | England/South East | 10,000.00 |
| 2021 | Force For Change | Covenant Fund | Company of Makers | Armed Forces Community Drawing Club | With this grant, The Company of Makers’ 12 month project,Armed Forces Community Drawing Club, will bring the Armed Forces community together online to share their interest in drawing; and also to develop their creativity and technique. All are welcome, from total beginners to the more experienced. All that’s needed is a pencil, paper and access to the internet. | England/South East | 10,000.00 |
| 2021 | Force For Change | Covenant Fund | Equus Ferus | Equus Ferus: The Next Step | The grant will enable the organisation to build on previous work. 'Equus Ferus: The Next Step' will train 12 of our current service users to become volunteer ambassadors, charged with searching out vulnerable and isolated veterans in the community and introducing them to the benefits to horse-related activities. | Wales | 9,950.00 |
| 2021 | Force For Change | Covenant Fund | Erskine Veterans Charity | IT classes for vulnerable veterans | This project will provide vulnerable veterans, spouses and carers with IT classes held at the Erskine Reid Macewen Activities Centre. Classes will combat isolation by providing opportunities for participants to improve their IT skills, become digitally connected, increase their confidence and to take part in social activity. | Scotland | 10,000.00 |
| 2021 | Force For Change | Covenant Fund | Fishing for Heroes | Regional Get Togethers | This project will enable veterans who have an interest in fishing to come together for 'Regional Get Togethers'. Over the next 12 months 'Fishing for Heroes' aim to deliver 50 events with an average attendance of 9 at each event. These events will enable veterans to share an activity and reduce isolation | England/East | 10,000.00 |
| 2021 | Force For Change | Covenant Fund | Glebe Primary School | Stronger Still | Glebe Primary School's project 'Stronger Still' will use creative activities and cross-generational engagement to positively impact both children from Armed Forces families and local care home residents. Activities will support young people to build friendships with other children their own age, share experiences and improve self-esteem, whilst creating a collaborative and sustainable community. | England/London | 10,000.00 |
| 2021 | Force For Change | Covenant Fund | Goodwin Development Trust -Armed Forces Community Hub Hull | Operation Legend | Goodwin Development Trust's project will reduce isolation and promote integration through enabling our Armed Forces Community to ‘get to know their city and the region’. Through providing organised visits to historical buildings, access to hidden gems, and to learn from inspirational speakers. The project will support new friendships through participating in established local history groups. | England/North East | 9,715.00 |
| 2021 | Force For Change | Covenant Fund | Help A Squaddie | Veterans On The Move | This project will encourage veterans to access community activities using powered and nonpowered bicycles to improve their mental, physical, emotional health and welling, by increasing their fitness levels and stamina opening up opportunities to improve their skills and quality of life by reducing social isolation. | England/West Midlands | 10,000.00 |
| 2021 | Force For Change | Covenant Fund | Home Start Colchester, Jaywick and Clacton | Together. | Home-Start Colchester Jaywik and Clacton's project 'Together' with this funding will support military families during difficult times, offering a bespoke offer of emotional and practical support. | England/East | 9,500.00 |
| 2021 | Force For Change | Covenant Fund | HOME-START HORIZONS | Post-COVID Armed-Forces Family Peer Support | Home-Start Horizons has deigned their project to provide a weekly on-base facilitated family support group and also 1-1 home-visiting volunteer support at Kendrew Barracks for parents with a child under 5. The project will focus on strategies to manage children’s challenging behaviour and to develop peer-support networks to reduce isolation and build family resilience post Covid. | England/East | 9,975.00 |
| 2021 | Force For Change | Covenant Fund | Launchpad | Reconnecting Formerly Homeless Heroes | Project delivered/partially delivered, with some funding not used | England/North East | 8,882.00 |
| 2021 | Force For Change | Covenant Fund | Liverpool Football Club Foundation | LFC Foundation Military Veteran Families | The grant will support Family Health and wellbeing events to be led by the Liverpool FC Foundation Military Veterans programme in collaboration with the Liverpool Veterans Headquarters families officer, to provide an holistic approach to engagement within the Liverpool city region. Activities will be run throughout the year promoting healthy lifestyles and wellbeing for Veteran families. | England/North West | 10,000.00 |
| 2021 | Force For Change | Covenant Fund | Maximum Edge CIC | Veterans For Veterans | The grant will enable the organisation to work with veterans in the St Helens and Liverpool City Region who are isolated. The project will offer supportive groups engaging in a variety of activities including, sport, exercise, walking groups, socials, "Veterans' Cafes" offering veterans the chance to meet up and share experiences. | England/North West | 9,550.00 |
| 2021 | Force For Change | Covenant Fund | Northern Ireland Garrison Support Unit | Thiepval Outdoor Community Fitness Project | NIGSU has always put the Armed Forces Community first by improving facilities/welfare support for those who are stationed in Northern Ireland to maintain wider Brigade operational effectiveness. | Northern Ireland | 10,000.00 |
| 2021 | Force For Change | Covenant Fund | On Course Foundation | Golf for Veterans, Northern Ireland | The grant will support a confidence building programme of Introductory Golf Events for veterans in Northern Ireland. Focusing on re-engagement, reducing social isolation and offering the opportunity to try a new sport - learning and developing skills both on and off the course. | Northern Ireland | 8,394.00 |
| 2021 | Force For Change | Covenant Fund | RAF Cranwell | Focussing on the Community | RAF College Cranwell wants to put “Community focus” back into the RAF Cranwell whole force community by providing a mixture of relevant activities that will offer support through focussed and generic activities alongside the opportunity for people to meet in an environment that will allow for exploration of feelings post covid lockdown | England/East | 8,800.00 |
| 2021 | Force For Change | Covenant Fund | RAF Valley Support Wing | 'Community Support Phoenix Integration Project’ | The project 'Community Support Phoenix Integration Project’ will encourage participation in a safe program of community activities in fun activities promoting wellbeing recovery, and encourage interactions between Armed Forces and civilian communities | Wales | 10,000.00 |
| 2021 | Force For Change | Covenant Fund | Reading Force | Making connections... Reading Force Book-clubs | Reading Force's pilot project developed relationships between socially-isolated and lonely Armed Forces communites through book-clubs. This project-extension seeks to build on this; promoting social integration and personal resilience. Shared-reading offers a non-invasive means of boosting connectivity and community. Establishing online book-clubs promotes networking; members proactively encourage others to join and build related development-activities. | UK-wide | 10,000.00 |
| 2021 | Force For Change | Covenant Fund | Rebuild South West | The Veterans Space | Project delivered/partially delivered, with some funding not used | England/South West | 9,993.00 |
| 2021 | Force For Change | Covenant Fund | RAF Waddington | RAF Waddington Wellness Project 2 | With this grant, Royal Air Force Station Waddington, will deliver of weekly wellbeing activity classes to support physical and mental wellbeing of individuals and to enhance quality of life. | England/East | 4,680.00 |
| 2021 | Force For Change | Covenant Fund | Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead | Building a Reading Community | Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead Libraries project 'Building a Reading Community' will aim to combat social isolation through reading. Using reading groups, book clubs, Literacy Engagement Sessions and Family Story Times we aim to build strong links and connections between Army families and their local community. A series of events will take place across a range of venues. | England/South East | 10,000.00 |
| 2021 | Force For Change | Covenant Fund | Saints Community Development Foundation | Veterans in Bloom | The Veterans in Bloom project is to bring out green fingered and artistic veterans to provide therapeutic spaces for fellow veterans to enjoy and aspire within. Looking after their mental health and wellbeing by challenging their creativity and providing opportunities get involved. | England/North West | 9,065.00 |
| 2021 | Force For Change | Covenant Fund | The Somme Nursing Home | SNH Veterans' Therapeutic Gardening Scheme | The grant will enable the Somme Nursing Home, along with Defence Garden Scheme will design a Gardening Project to encourage veterans to become engaged with the gardens of the Home. This will reduce isolation and address loneliness and detachment by providing opportunities contribute to a project for resident veterans of SNH, their families and the local community. | Northern Ireland | 10,000.00 |
| 2021 | Force For Change | Covenant Fund | Sporting Force | Veterans Re-engage and Re-vitalise | The grant will support a project that encourages a return to social engagement and physical activity for those members of the Armed Forces Community who have found themselves struggling with isolation and loneliness. The project will use sport and exercise to regain their confidence, resilience and to re-integrate into their local community. | England/North East | 9,890.00 |
| 2021 | Force For Change | Covenant Fund | St Jude's Primary School | St Jude’s Service Families Hub | St Jude's Church of England Primary School's project will create a community space for service children by reinvigorating an existing classroom. It will be used for peer group activities and individual/small group mentoring for service children. The Service Families Hub will provide a place for family memory-making events and workshops that support families. | England/South East | 9,768.00 |
| 2021 | Force For Change | Covenant Fund | RAF Marham | Break Out | RAF Marham is in very rural Norfolk, regular large deployments impact on the families and Service Personnel. Break Out will support the Families Club, Junior Ranks Club and Youth Club which will bring people together as well as helping them to become more engaged and reducing social isolation and loneliness | England/East | 10,000.00 |
| 2021 | Force For Change | Covenant Fund | UNITY (SOUTHERN) LTD | Bulford with no boundaries | The project 'Bulford with no boundaries' will provide a route for Forces families stationed in and around Bulford Camp to engage with the local community as we emerge from lockdown. Families will be able to make full use of the health and wellbeing, leisure and training facilities as part of a local community. | England/South West | 9,960.00 |
| 2021 | Force For Change | Covenant Fund | Veterans' Growth | Horticulture for Wellbeing | The grant will enable the 'Horticulture for Wellbeing project' to continue and expand upon the work already being undertaken at Veterans' Growth. It will provide additional support to Veterans who are are already known to the organisation, and reach out to and help even more Veterans who need support in the local community. | England/South East | 9,927.00 |
| 2021 | Force For Change | Covenant Fund | Walking With the Wounded | Wellbeing Through Art -North East | The grant will establish a twice-weekly Art Wellbeing group for veterans from across the North-East. It will be run from a Hub in North Sheilds and expert tuition would be provided. The group will enable veterans to learn a new skill whilst improving wellbeing and social engagement. | England/North East | 10,000.00 |
| 2021 | Force For Change | Covenant Fund | Walking With the Wounded | Wellbeing Through Art- North West | The grant will establish a twice-weekly Art Wellbeing group for veterans from across the North-West. It will be run from a Hub in Manchester and expert tuition would be provided. The group will enable veterans to learn a new skill whilst improving wellbeing and social engagement. | England/North West | 10,000.00 |
| 2021 | Force For Change | Covenant Fund | Walking With the Wounded | OP-REGEN Sharks Forces | With the grant, Walking With The Wounded will collaborate with Sharks Community Trust to develop social engagement and meaningful volunteering opportunities to help engage members of the armed forces community within Greater Manchester to encourage them to participate in meaningful opportunities within the communities that they reside. | England/North West | 10,000.00 |
| 2021 | Force For Change | Covenant Fund | The White Horse Federation trading as Larkhill Primary School | Rock at the Rocks | The grant will support a 9-month confidence and communication project 'Rock at the Rocks' for Armed Forces children and families. Artistic workshops and performances will celebrate the landscape the children live in and their own creativity. The project will improve wellbeing, mental health and belonging for all. Participants will earn Arts qualifications to improve achievement and aspiration beyond school. | England/South West | 9,700.00 |
| 2021 | Force For Change | Covenant Fund | YSS | YSS Remember Veterans (YSS RV) | The grant will support work with veterans. Remember Veterans work with military veterans who are in/at risk of becoming involved in the criminal justice system. The service works closely with the Veteran to enable them to access the support they need, reduce social isolation, and integrate into their local community whilst reducing the likelihood of offending/re-offending. | England/West Midlands | 9,978.00 |
| 2022 | Force For Change | Covenant Fund | 1 R WELSH | Welsh Welfare upgrade | With this grant 1st Battalion The Royal Welsh, will improve a seating area, gain garden heating, BBQ, a climbing frame for young children and a fence around the perimeter of the Communal garden. The communal area is used by families of the F6 Battallion Royal Welsh. | England/South West | 6,530.00 |
| 2022 | Force For Change | Covenant Fund | 22 Multi-Role Medical Regiment | The Game On Centre | Project delivered/partially delivered, with some funding not used | England/South East | 10,000.00 |
| 2022 | Force For Change | Covenant Fund | 906 EAW RAF | Improvements to AMAB seating area | Project delivered/partially delivered, with some funding not used | Overseas | 9,700.00 |
| 2022 | Force For Change | Covenant Fund | Age Concern Birmingham (ACB) | Friend for Life Plus | The ‘Friend for Life Plus’ project will provide social activities, information and support to make a positive difference to the Friend for Life network. Building on togetherness, friendships and meaningful activities to local veterans. | England/West Midlands | 7,800.00 |
| 2022 | Force For Change | Covenant Fund | Age Cymru Powys | Powys Veterans Club | The funding will enable the project to continue their work with older veterans aged over 65 n North, Mid, and South Powys. The club helps veterans remain connected to each other and to their community, offering a cuppa and a chat and wellbeing sessions. | Wales | 9,895.00 |
| 2022 | Force For Change | Covenant Fund | Age UK North Yorkshire Coast & Moors | Yorkshire Coast Veterans network | This programme will build on existing work to build a network of agencies working with veterans and serving armed forces personnel and to provide a range of events and peer support for those have served in our armed forces and live in the Yorkshire Coast area. | England/North East | 9,871.00 |
| 2022 | Force For Change | Covenant Fund | Armed Forces Community HQ CIC | GM Afghanistan Quick Reaction Force | Armed Forces Community HQ will use the funding to run a series of events across Greater Manchester, seeking to provide a space for veterans affected by the events in Afghanistan to be heard and offer diversionary activities and interventions ranging from social prescription to positive action engaging with the relocated Afghan evacuees. | England/North West | 9,955.00 |
| 2022 | Force For Change | Covenant Fund | Armed Forces Community HQ CIC | Wigan Armed Forces Families First | The 'Wigan Armed Forces Families First' project will deliver taregted support to Armed Forces Families, children and young people in the local area. This will include activities to support social inclusion and civil integration, targeted events, activities, services and interventions. | England/North West | 9,900.00 |
| 2022 | Force For Change | Covenant Fund | Army Welfare Service | Together Time | The ‘Together Time’ project aims to improve community cohesion and resilience for our military families and local civilian community who are adversely affected by rural isolation. The planned sessions will improve mental and physical well-being and offer opportunities for local members of the Armed Forces community including adults and children. | England/North East | 9,940.00 |
| 2022 | Force For Change | Covenant Fund | The Bradford Bulls Foundation | Forces Squad | ‘Forces Squad’ is a new holistic wellbeing project for veterans aged 18 to 55 living in Bradford, West Yorkshire offering weekly physical activity, personal development, and social action activities which support the attainment of outcomes associated with reduced loneliness and social isolation, better physical health, and improved mental resilience | England/North East | 9,970.00 |
| 2022 | Force For Change | Covenant Fund | Brooke House Health and Wellbeing Centre | Pathway Out of Isolation | The ‘Pathway Out of Isolation’ project will help to recruit and train 12 Pathway link volunteers who will support isolated and vulnerable veterans to be able to access wider services that the organisation offers | Northern Ireland | 10,000.00 |
| 2022 | Force For Change | Covenant Fund | Broughton House - Veteran Care Village | Well Together Walk Together | The project ‘Well Together Walk Together’ will work with 100 socially isolated, working-age veterans with poor mental health living in the Greater Manchester community. A project worker will provide 1-2- 1 support in person and by phone to help isolated veterans re-engage in the community; it will also set up peer support walking groups | England/North West | 9,985.00 |
| 2022 | Force For Change | Covenant Fund | Building Heroes Education Foundation | OnSite Construction Skills Acadamy Wales | The project will provide opportunities for veterans and service leavers to integrate with the local community whilst re-skilling for work in construction. Beneficiaries will learn a range of skills needed by local employers on a live construction site and support the building of Veteran accommodation | Wales | 9,750.00 |
| 2022 | Force For Change | Covenant Fund | Cardiff Castle | Veterans’ Woodcraft Memorial Benches Project | The ‘Veterans’ Woodcraft Memorial Benches Project’ project will directly enable vulnerable veterans to create wooden memorial benches whilst engaging with other veterans and the local community in an enjoyable activity, learning new skills and contributing to the memorial garden project around the Statue of the Abandoned Soldier within Cardiff Castle. | Wales | 10,000.00 |
| 2022 | Force For Change | Covenant Fund | Care for Veterans | The Social Life Project | The Social Life Project will provide vulnerable veterans with a variety of social opportunities. Getting out and about will help reconnect veterans with the outside world. Well-being, fun and laughter are key ingredients; veterans will immerse themselves in sociable activities. Staff will facilitate meaningful social interactions to enrich quality of life | England/South East | 9,998.00 |
| 2022 | Force For Change | Covenant Fund | Countryside Services - Hampshire County Council | Rights of Way Task Force | This funding will help the organisation to build on their previous work and will actively engages military veterans (and those transitioning) from the charity Walking with the Wounded to gain countryside related work experience and courses that helps to develop skills and confidence.confidence | England/South East | 10,000.00 |
| 2022 | Force For Change | Covenant Fund | Dartmoor Zoological Society | Wellness through Nature | Wellness through Nature’ supports Veterans to improve their physical and mental health through the benefits of engaging with or being surrounded by animals and nature. Skills, education and social interactions are facilitated in an unconventional format which can work well for people who struggle with mainstream processes and social pressures. | England/South West | 9,960.00 |
| 2022 | Force For Change | Covenant Fund | Defence Intelligence Training Group (DITG) | Chicksands Nature Based Therapy | With this grant, Defence Intelligence Training Group will offer the Chicksands Walled Garden as a venue for Nature Based Therapy courses and will work with the Defence Garden Scheme. | England/East | 9,600.00 |
| 2022 | Force For Change | Covenant Fund | EarthCraftuk Community Interest Company | Veteran Retreats | Delivered by Earthcraft, the, 'Veterans Empowerment Project' is a woodland programme for Veterans referred through the NHS’ Kent and Medway’s Veterans’ Mental Health High Intensity Service. This programme will reduce isolation and offer supported opportunities for Veterans to experience the mental and physical health, and social well-being benefits of being in nature. | England/South East | 10,000.00 |
| 2022 | Force For Change | Covenant Fund | Erskine Veterans Charity | Pottery classes for vulnerable veterans | Erskine’s project will provide pottery classes to vulnerable veterans, spouses and carers. Classes will be held at the Erskine Reid Macewen Activities Centre in Bishopton, Renfrewshire. The classes bring isolated people together, promoting social inclusion as well as providing opportunities to learn new skills and build confidence | Scotland | 8,150.00 |
| 2022 | Force For Change | Covenant Fund | The Fighting Chance | Op Courage Boxing Support Programme | The project will build on existing partnership work with Op Courage for Veterans experiencing PTSD, complex mental health issues, and social isolation. The project provides a non-contact boxing training programme, physical fitness & exercise, social activities, special events and additional support including advocacy, employment & training. | England/London | 10,000.00 |
| 2022 | Force For Change | Covenant Fund | Foundation 92 | Salford Community Veterans Empowerment Project | Foundation 92 will deliver a service-user led, physical social and personal development project which uses the power of football and targeted mentoring to support Veterans based in the City of Salford to develop a range of transferable soft skills which enables seamless integration into the community, training, education and employment | England/North West | 10,000.00 |
| 2022 | Force For Change | Covenant Fund | Hampshire County Council | Volunteers for Veterans Project Leader | Volunteers for Veterans is a weekly Veterans Hub initiative launched in August 2021, with Force for Change funding. It provides a safe and welcoming space for local veterans to meet, converse, relax and support each other in the spirit of shared comradeship. | England/South East | 9,094.00 |
| 2022 | Force For Change | Covenant Fund | Home Start Hull | Normandy Barracks Family Support Scheme | This project will support armed forces families where someone is serving or is a veteran, based on or near to Normandy Barracks. Home-Start (Hull) volunteers offer weekly practical and emotional support for families with at least one child under five through home-visiting volunteers or a coffee morning. | England/North East | 7,604.00 |
| 2022 | Force For Change | Covenant Fund | Hull FC Community Foundation | Game Plan | The project will run a sport inspired programme called ‘Game Plan’ which will deliver positive activities to vulnerable veterans living in Hull. With a focus on supporting those at high risk of health and social inequality, including those on low income and who are unemployed, activities include physical fitness, work-readiness support, and local volunteering. | England/North East | 9,735.00 |
| 2022 | Force For Change | Covenant Fund | Loughborough Wellbeing Centre CIO | The Veterans Wellbeing Hub | The Veterans Wellbeing Hub will provide a safe and secure place for veterans offering support, advice, signposting, hospitality and friendship. The Hub will provide a range of regular, accessible, sessions developed in partnership with veterans. These will include a range of creative and physical activities that support their mental health/ wellbeing | England/East | 9,974.00 |
| 2022 | Force For Change | Covenant Fund | Mid Ulster Victim's Empowerment | The Florettes | The project builds on previous work with Armed Forces families. The families have designed a gardening project that will encourage social interaction with other veterans groups and forge new friendships | Northern Ireland | 10,000.00 |
| 2022 | Force For Change | Covenant Fund | MOD St Athan | Welfare House Refurbishment | Project delivered/partially delivered, with some funding not used | Wales | 5,000.00 |
| 2022 | Force For Change | Covenant Fund | Nordoff Robbins Music Therapy | Music Therapy at Esrkine | The ‘Music Therapy at Esrkine’ project will support veterans who are resident at Erskine Care Home in Glasgow. The service will benefit residents with dementia and other care needs. The music therapy will also involve their families, friends and care home staff as wider beneficiaries | Scotland | 4,000.00 |
| 2022 | Force For Change | Covenant Fund | Northern Learning Trust | Newcastle-Upon-Tyne Military Veterans Cycle Club | The Newcastle-Upon-Tyne Military Veterans Cycle Club, utilising a veteran as a trained cycle leader and mentor, is an established programme that reduces isolation and improves physical and mental health amongst veterans through twice weekly expeditions, to help ex-Service personnel tackle social isolation and loneliness | England/North East | 8,032.00 |
| 2022 | Force For Change | Covenant Fund | On Course Foundation | Golf access for Scottish veterans | The ‘Golf access for Scottish veterans’ project will expand a confidence building programme of golf events in the West and South West of Scotland, including a new longer-term residential event. It will provide veterans with the opportunity to access golf on a more regular basis outside of the core programme, allowing for continued engagement and peer-to-peer support. | Scotland | 8,889.00 |
| 2022 | Force For Change | Covenant Fund | Powys County Council | Embracing bilingualism with Service families | This project ‘Embracing bilingualism with Service families’ is to provide the opportunity for Service families and pupils to engage in their first language at school and in the community. The project will focus on Nepalese families and share educational support and resources to facilitate bilingualism, integration into the school and community. | Wales | 9,814.00 |
| 2022 | Force For Change | Covenant Fund | RAF Brize Norton | RAF Brize Norton Summer Camp | In partnership with RAFA Kidz, RAF Brize Norton Community Support will deliver a low-cost and high quality holiday club ‘RAF Brize Norton Summer Camp’, which provides supportive opportunities for children from Armed Forces families and their parents. | England/South East | 10,000.00 |
| 2022 | Force For Change | Covenant Fund | RAF Coningsby Airplay | RAF Coningsby Airplay Video/Podcasting | With this grant, RAF Coningsby Airplay will provide activities and projects for children and young people from Armed Forces families. This project will provide equipment for young people to design, script and record their own podcasts and videos, enabling young people to learn audio/video editing skills and produce media content. | England/East | 8,057.00 |
| 2022 | Force For Change | Covenant Fund | Rhondda Cynon Taf County Borough Council | Armed Forces Community Wellbeing Project | The 'Armed Forces Community Wellbeing' project will offer workshops, focusing on mindfulness, communication, and mindset. The aim of the project is to improve wellbeing, reduce loneliness, improve quality of life and establish an understanding community that knows how to support one another | Wales | 10,000.00 |
| 2022 | Force For Change | Covenant Fund | Ringshall School | Recovery and resilience fitness trail | Ringshall school's project, 'Recovery and resilence fitness trail', will help children from Armed Forces families to engage with their peers to build resilience, fitness, relationships and improve health following the Covid pandemic. The School will use a the grant to buy fitness trail equipment and create a safe, sweeping assault-course circuit on the field for children to use. | England/East | 10,000.00 |
| 2022 | Force For Change | Covenant Fund | Royal Air Force Honington | Slam Block BBQ's | The project will develop an outside social space. This will include a BBQ facility for those living in Junior Ranks single living accommodation. It will create a social area, which can help to combat isolation | England/East | 10,000.00 |
| 2022 | Force For Change | Covenant Fund | Royal British Legion Industries (RBLI) | Veterans Stepping Out | The ‘Veterans in the Community’ project will increase and improve community engagement for Veterans emerging from Covid isolation to gain and maintain independent living. The project will work with local partners to support veterans by improving their mental health and wellbeing, developing their interpersonal skills and abilities to engage with the wider local community | England/South East | 10,000.00 |
| 2022 | Force For Change | Covenant Fund | Royal British Legion Industries (RBLI) | Veterans in the Community | The project will provide Covid safe activities through the organisations STEP-IN welfare programme to improve mental health and increase social interaction for vulnerable veterans with complex challenges. Activities will take place at their Village in Aylesford and in the local community and support veterans with extreme confidence challenges and social exclusion issues | England/South East | 10,000.00 |
| 2022 | Force For Change | Covenant Fund | Royal British Legion Portstewart Branch | Together We Can | The ‘Together We Can’ project will provide training and social interaction opportunities to other Royal British Legion Branches, bringing them together, including their family and friends but also it will involve reaching out and supporting the wider community. | Northern Ireland | 4,640.00 |
| 2022 | Force For Change | Covenant Fund | Rutland County Council | Armed Forces Intergenerational Friendship Club | The project ‘Armed Forces Intergenerational Friendship Club’ will connect service children and families, who live on rural Kendrew and St Georges Barracks, with local older and isolated veterans in the community. Service families can be remote from their extended families and grandparents. The project will help find joy in sharing fun activities, learning new skills, and creating long-term friendships and familial relationships | England/East | 10,000.00 |
| 2022 | Force For Change | Covenant Fund | Rydal Penrhos school | Your Space To think | Your Space To think’ is a portable sensory ‘room’ which can be taken to the family or child in need. Trained staff will set up the ‘room’ and work with children and families from Armed Forces families to help them express their feelings. The ‘room’ contains multi-sensory resources for all ages between 3 and 18. | Wales | 4,567.00 |
| 2022 | Force For Change | Covenant Fund | Sale Sharks Foundation | Active Sharks | ‘Active Sharks’ is a new programme focused on empowering older veterans living in the most deprived areas of North Manchester to come together and participate in a weekly two-hour session entailing positive activities (chosen by veterans) which will improve physical health, instil mental resilience, and promote social togetherness between peers. | England/North West | 9,950.00 |
| 2022 | Force For Change | Covenant Fund | Shell Shock Media CIC | Knock at the Door Retold | Drawing on research published by the Knock at the Door study, the project will interpret the lived experience from these accounts into a pilot theatre production designed to explore and educate audiences regarding issues faced by war widows and families in dealing with bereavement arising from military service. | England/South East | 9,780.00 |
| 2022 | Force For Change | Covenant Fund | Shrewsbury Town Foundation | Amed Forces Veterans Hub | Project delivered/partially delivered, with some funding not used | England/West Midlands | 7,939.00 |
| 2022 | Force For Change | Covenant Fund | Small Woods Association | Into the Woods. | The ‘In to the Woods’ project will work with military families who may be experiencing loneliness and isolation. The project will provide them with an opportunity to engage in meaningful tasks which connect them both to nature and other families in a similar situation. | England/West Midlands | 10,000.00 |
| 2022 | Force For Change | Covenant Fund | Soldiers' Arts Academy CIC | Learn to act with SAA | Soldiers’ Arts Academy will use the grant to offer weekly acting classes for serving and veteran personnel who have been impacted by their time in service. These classes will help their confidence, self esteem and sense of community. | England/London | 10,000.00 |
| 2022 | Force For Change | Covenant Fund | RAF Marham | Fitastic MarFun | Project delivered/partially delivered, with some funding not used | England/East | 10,000.00 |
| 2022 | Force For Change | Covenant Fund | Suffolk Family Carers | Time Out Together | Time Out Together will offer a range of activities to improve wellbeing, decrease isolation and increase connectivity. Time Out Together brings family carers in the Armed Forces community and family carers in the local area | England/East | 9,806.00 |
| 2022 | Force For Change | Covenant Fund | Veterans Outdoors | Veterans in Communities | The ‘Veterans in Communities’ project will continue their work supporting the mental health and wellbeing of veterans. The project will reduce isolation, by connecting veterans to their local communities, towns and villages through gardening and outdoor activities. These activities will include restoring public gardens, parks, and tending and tidying the graves of local veterans or those died in action | England/South West | 10,000.00 |
| 2022 | Force For Change | Covenant Fund | Voluntary Impact Northamptonshire | Happy@Home Veteran befrienders | The project will train Ex service Personnel as befrienders to support isolated and lonely elderly veterans in Northampton. Volunteers will also host regular coffee mornings for veterans who want to widen their social circle by meeting and talking to people who have shared similar life experiences in the armed forces | England/East | 9,623.00 |
| 2022 | Force For Change | Covenant Fund | Walking With the Wounded | The MEDALS Programme | The MEDALS programme (Mindfulness Education, Developing Active Lifestyles Sports) for veterans in Scotland, will combine a mixture of mindfulness, promotion of healthy lifestyles, and sport participation that can positively influence a veteran's mental wellbeing,decrease social isolation, and provide an opportunity to gain a sense of achievement. | Scotland | 10,000.00 |
| 2022 | Force For Change | Covenant Fund | Walking With the Wounded | WWTW's Surf Action Group | This project ‘WWTW’s Surf Action Group’ will establish a weekly Surf Action group for veterans from across the North-East. It would be run from Sandhaven Beach at South Shields and expert tuition would be provided. The group would enable veterans to learn a new skill whilst improving their physical and mental well-being | England/North East | 10,000.00 |
| 2022 | Force For Change | Covenant Fund | Wiltshire Council | Supporting Communities Whilst Apart | The,‘Supporting Communities Whilst Apart’ will aim to set up regular support cafes/drop in centres across Wiltshire, aimed at supporting serving personnel and their families who were born overseas, particularly from Nepali and Fijian communities, to offer support, advice and prevent greater feelings of isolation. | England/South West | 10,000.00 |
| 2022 | Force For Change | Covenant Fund | Woodwork to Wellness | Woodwork to Wellness for Veterans | Woodwork to Wellness’ helps veterans to connect with themselves, and other people, through creativity, providing opportunities for veterans to engage with other in a welcoming setting | Wales | 6,500.00 |
| 2022 | Force For Change | Covenant Fund | Woolwich Garrison Church Trust | Garrison Church/Woolwich Barracks Partnership | The Garrison Church supports the soldiers and their families at Woolwich Barracks. The aim of the project ‘Garrison Church/Woolwich Barracks Partnership’ is to engage with the local soldiers, currently the Princess of Wales’ Royal Regiment, and the King's Troop, by providing a variety of activities, including family-friendly services and events throughout the year. | England/London | 10,000.00 |
| 2022 | Force For Change | Covenant Fund | YSGOL UWCHRADD ABERTEIFI | VETS, PETS & PUPILS' GARDEN | With this funding, Ysgol Uwchradd Aberteifi will create an animal friendly garden within the school grounds, designed, created and nurtured by pupils, armed forces families, veterans and volunteers from the local community. It will provide a safe,educational space for beneficiaries to enjoy,learn and interact with pet therapy animals and one another. | Wales | 10,000.00 |
| 2022 | Force For Change | Covenant Fund | Aurora New Dawn | Armed Forces Athena Group work | This project will support victims of domestic abuse and sexual violence within the Armed Forces community to explore the dynamics of coercive control and violence and to increase their selfesteem. | England/South East | 10,000.00 |
| 2022 | Force For Change | Covenant Fund | BASSETLAW VETERANS SAFETY NET | Bassetlaw Veterans Safety Net | The funding will support the creation of a dedicated garden, allotment, workshop and the provision of a range of outdoor activities for veterans. This will help to develop coping strategies within a stressfree, neutral environment. It will build emotional resilience and create a local support network that is centred on the veteran voice. | England/East | 10,000.00 |
| 2022 | Force For Change | Covenant Fund | Belisama's Retreat CIC | Belisama’s Retreat – Wilderness Decompression | The project will target mental health issues which can be experienced by people within the Armed Forces community, through a wilderness intervention to assist decompression & integration with civilian life. The project is aimed at veterans and their partners to increase the individual’s selfawareness, self-esteem and knowledge to improve their mental wellbeing and that of their families. | England/North West | 10,000.00 |
| 2022 | Force For Change | Covenant Fund | Building Heroes Education Foundation | Construction, qualifications and skills training. | In the wake of increased demand for construction skills training, Building Heroes will increase staff coordination capacity at their training centres in Nantwich, Colchester, Aldershot and Middlesbrough, thus enabling more Armed Forces leavers and veterans to re-skill, obtain a national qualification and successfully transition into the construction workforce | England/South East | 10,000.00 |
| 2022 | Force For Change | Covenant Fund | Caerphilly County Borough Council | Stronger Together | The project will utilise the skills and fitness expertise of veterans to help improve the health and wellbeing of the Armed Forces community whilst integrating with the local community. It will offer outdoor fitness sessions in the heart of the community. | Wales | 10,000.00 |
| 2022 | Force For Change | Covenant Fund | Caerphilly County Borough Council | 5 Local Authorities of Gwent - Veterans in the Community | Stronger Together will offer a range of activities to improve wellbeing, decrease isolation and increase connectivity for veterans and their families. It will offer an opportunity for isolated or vulnerable veterans to engage with like-minded individuals to afford the opportunity to make new friendships and gain peer-to-peer support. | Wales | 5,750.00 |
| 2022 | Force For Change | Covenant Fund | Care after Combat | Wellbeing Activity Packs Project Phoenix | The project will deliver a Remote Support Service to the hard-to-reach veteran community within UK prisons, based around provision of a multi-faceted monthly Wellbeing Activity Pack to individual veterans. Fostering a sense of community and hope, motivating individuals and entertaining minds, combating isolation imposed by custodial sentences and prison regimes. | England/East | 10,000.00 |
| 2022 | Force For Change | Covenant Fund | Carnagill Primary School | Speech, language, communication and interaction | Funding is awarded to enable the organisation to deliver a social communication and interaction project to identify and address gaps caused by the unique stressors Service children face and the disruption to their communication development. | England/North East | 9,500.00 |
| 2022 | Force For Change | Covenant Fund | East Durham Veterans Trust | VETERANS HEALING THROUGH WOODWORKING | The project will provide a creative woodworking program that will support the veteran community to help them with a wide range of daily challenges. This field of creative therapy has been used to address chronic pain, traumatic brain injury, stress and anxiety issues, depression and other types of mental disorders. | England/North East | 9,744.00 |
| 2022 | Force For Change | Covenant Fund | Gloucester Rugby Foundation | Connected By Rugby | ‘Connected by Rugby’ will empower older veterans living in the community and assisted living accommodation to come together and participate in holistic activities that support improved physical and mental wellbeing. Activities will include physical activity, mental resilience workshops, intergenerational activities and digital support, with an underlying focus of reducing loneliness | England/South West | 9,750.00 |
| 2022 | Force For Change | Covenant Fund | Little Troopers | Little Troopers at School 2022 | The grant will enable expansion of the 'Little Troopers at School' project which supports Service children in education. The project will deliver a virtual school workshop with themes of wellbeing and mindfulness. | UK-wide | 9,157.00 |
| 2022 | Force For Change | Covenant Fund | Males and Females Tales | Get Active Again | The project will encourage the Armed Forces community (children and adults) to get out, socialise and try new activities again, encouraging social interaction and physical activity. | Scotland | 9,450.00 |
| 2022 | Force For Change | Covenant Fund | Mission Motorsport | Three Sisters Veterans Support Project | Funding is awarded to enable the organisation to deliver professional, engaging monthly events for veterans in the North West using the unique draw of motorsport. The project will access those who traditionally hard-to-reach, and provide a platform for supportive groups to promote peer support, building friendships and community, plus helping veterans make connections with supporting agencies and other charities. | England/North West | 10,000.00 |
| 2022 | Force For Change | Covenant Fund | OASIS Community Church, Centre & Gardens | OASIS - VETERAN'S HUB | Funding is awarded to enable the organisation to launch a weekly Veteran's Hub at their EDGE building for all veterans in Bassetlaw. This will be a safe place to meet, find practical support, advice and signposting; and make friends | England/East | 10,000.00 |
| 2022 | Force For Change | Covenant Fund | Oxfordshire South & Vale Citizens Advice | Citizens Advice at RAF Benson | With the grant, Oxfordshire South & Vale Citizens Advice will re-establish an outreach hub at RAF Benson offering essential expert, confidential, impartial advice to Service personnel and their families | England/South East | 6,640.00 |
| 2022 | Force For Change | Covenant Fund | RathfrilandRoyal British Legion Branch | Military Landscaping Regeneration | The grant will support the landscaping of the organisation's back garden and the planting of fruit trees, vegetables and wildflowers by the veterans to assist their mental health and wellbeing. The project will encourage veterans to work together as a team to develop a horticultural space for the members, families and the wider community. | Northern Ireland | 10,000.00 |
| 2022 | Force For Change | Covenant Fund | Regenerate Veterans Group | Heads, Hands & Heels II | Heads, Hands, Heels is an established personcentred focused programme for veterans and their families reducing social isolation and enabling meaningful engagement with others who share a similar background. This is delivered through workshops, outdoor activities and training suggested by the group to improve their mental and physical wellbeing | Northern Ireland | 10,000.00 |
| 2022 | Force For Change | Covenant Fund | Schomberg Society Kilkeel Ltd | Engaging Veterans in Community Radio! | This project will engage with veterans, serving personnel and their families to participate in a unique community media and radio project. Veterans will undertake training with peer-mentors in media and radio production and will broadcast daily 'veterans’ shows' on the local community radio station during its four weeks broadcast. | Northern Ireland | 10,000.00 |
| 2022 | Force For Change | Covenant Fund | Smart Savings CIC | Veterans Regroup | The funding will support a veterans’ hub operated by the organisation in West Cornwall by providing information on money, housing and energy savings, relevant services, local events and social activities for veterans and their families. The hub creates volunteering and training opportunities for veterans to lead monthly activities | England/South West | 10,000.00 |
| 2022 | Force For Change | Covenant Fund | Soldiers' Arts Academy CIC | Theatre for Veterans | Funding is awarded to enable the organisation to deliver a theatre project for veterans and their families that will culminate in a performance of Sir Michael Morpurgo's children's novel, Little Manfred. Veterans will be invited to participate in all areas of the production, from acting to directing | England/London | 10,000.00 |
| 2022 | Force For Change | Covenant Fund | RAF Marham | Community Sensory Garden | Funding is awarded to enable the organisation to provide a community sensory garden. This will enable all RAF Marham families the opportunity to enjoy a newly developed garden which caters for children with and without sensory needs. | England/East | 9,500.00 |
| 2022 | Force For Change | Covenant Fund | The Bridge for Heroes | Project Silent Partner | Funding is awarded to enable the organisation to get a better understanding of the issues faced by partners and what help can be provided to support them enabling them to better cope. | England/East | 8,950.00 |
| 2022 | Force For Change | Covenant Fund | RAF Benevolent Fund | Airplay Ben Clubs | Funding is awarded to enable the organisation to deliver 'Ben Clubs', a vital part of the Airplay youth support programme, providing a safe space for children aged five to seven to come together to have fun and make friends with other youngsters from RAF families in Lincolnshire, with support on hand if needed | England/East | 9,894.00 |
| 2022 | Force For Change | Covenant Fund | Urban Organic (UK) CIC | Wild at Weeton | Wild at Weeton is a community garden project based at Weeton Barracks. It has been set up to work with Service families, helping them to grow their own fruit and vegetables with support from Urban Organic; and gives opportunities for wider social interaction | England/North West | 9,864.00 |
| 2022 | Force For Change | Covenant Fund | Veterans' Growth | Veteran's Woodland Project | Funding is awarded to enable the organisation to manage a piece of woodland that is attached to the current charity site. This will be an opportunity to teach woodland management skills to veterans, to increase the biodiversity of the site and to produce a number of woodland-related craft products and artistic projects. | England/South East | 10,000.00 |
| 2022 | Force For Change | Covenant Fund | Veterans In Crisis | The Veterans Palette | The project will offer Art Therapy to develop solutions toward better mental health and wellbeing for veterans who are often suffering from PTSD. It will enable them to speak without talking, putting their expressions into art. Individual or group discussions with a therapist can then follow. | England/North East | 10,000.00 |
| 2022 | Force For Change | Covenant Fund | Walking With the Wounded | Op-Regen an environmental volunteering project | Op-Regen Scotland will help to connect ex-Service personnel with others in their local community and help them to improve their mental health and wellbeing through connecting with nature. The project will provide several opportunities for veterans to get involved in environmental activities such as fishing, conservation and tree-planting. | Scotland | 10,000.00 |
| 2022 | Force For Change | Covenant Fund | Wigan Warriors Community Foundation | Armed Forces: Offload Project | Funding is awarded to enable the organisation to provide regular group sessions in bringing members of both the Armed Forces family, primarily veterans and their families, and civilians within the community together. The focus is on preventing loneliness and depression and to help support those living with dementia and PTSD. | England/North West | 9,950.00 |
| 2022 | Force For Change | Covenant Fund | Battling On CIC | Creative Ageing | The Creative Ageing project aims to reduce social isolation amongst elderly veterans living in rural communities in Southeast Cornwall by providing a range of creative workshops | England/South West | 10,000.00 |
| 2022 | Force For Change | Covenant Fund | The Blues and Royals Association | Walk+Talk North East | This project will enable the organisation to leverage Regimental networks and shared identity; engage isolated members, assisted by a digital community platform that links to other local support resources. | England/North East | 10,000.00 |
| 2022 | Force For Change | Covenant Fund | Bounce Forward | Empowered & Thriving Military Families | The project will support military families across the tri-Services community of Staffordshire. The programmes support symptoms of mental ill-health & promote thriving, improved mental resilience, emotional health, and life satisfaction. Parents & children will also be supported in knowing how to deal well with transitions, change and uncertainty. | England/West Midlands | 8,465.00 |
| 2022 | Force For Change | Covenant Fund | Brathay Trust | Strong Foundations, Successful Futures | The grant will enable Brathay Trust, working together with Future for Heroes, to extend the support currently offered to veterans, by piloting a new families programme. The project will develop the wellbeing, functioning and networks of veteran’s families to increase the beneficiaries' opportunities to build ‘strong foundations and successful futures’ in civilian life. | England/North West | 10,000.00 |
| 2022 | Force For Change | Covenant Fund | Broughton House - Veteran Care Village | Overcoming the Legacy of Covid | Covid-19 had a devastating impact on elderly veterans living in care homes, including Broughton House. Through this project, care home staff will spend extra 1-2-1 time with veterans struggling with the long-term impact of social isolation; including playing games, going on outings, and rebuilding their social skills and confidence. | England/North West | 9,718.00 |
| 2022 | Force For Change | Covenant Fund | Carers Plus Yorkshire Ltd (prev Scarborough & Ryedale Carers Resource) | A Journey of Change | This project will enable military families/individuals who have additional care and support needs within their home environment by developing a safe and supportive offer; empowering individuals to experience positive and sustainable change in their health and wellbeing as well as better managing their caring responsibilities as a family unit. | England/North East | 10,000.00 |
| 2022 | Force For Change | Covenant Fund | Erskine Veterans Charity | EARS 2 Hear | This project will provide a hearing information service to veterans, their spouses, and carers on a drop-in basis. Sessions will take place across partner organisations’ sites on a rolling basis and will provide the veteran community with support, guidance, and signposting onl hearing-related matters. | Scotland | 10,000.00 |
| 2022 | Force For Change | Covenant Fund | Families Together Suffolk (Formerly Home-Start Mid & West Suffolk) | Little Gems Perinatal Baby group | The grant will support a weekly group for new mums from Armed Forces families who are experiencing low mood, anxieties, and post-natal depression. It is a support group which offers support to new mums, through play, to support a healthy bond. | England/East | 6,140.00 |
| 2022 | Force For Change | Covenant Fund | The Fighting Chance | Women Only Boxing Project | Funding is awarded to enable an introductory programme for Women Veterans. Designed for beginners and all abilities, the project will enable an introduction to boxing training, a fun workout, and a chance to meet others | England/London | 10,000.00 |
| 2022 | Force For Change | Covenant Fund | The Fighting Chance | Off the Ropes! | This project will deliver a boxing-training drop-in for veterans; that is led by veterans, creating a friendly place to drop-in, have a brew, catch up, get fitter, train hard and feel better. | England/London | 10,000.00 |
| 2022 | Force For Change | Covenant Fund | Fighting With Pride | LGBT+ Veterans, Tackling Financial Exclusion | This project will support veterans who are particularly vulnerable and isolated to take part in Fighting With Pride events, and events in the wider veteran community, where travel and subsistence are barriers to inclusion. | UK-wide | 10,000.00 |
| 2022 | Force For Change | Covenant Fund | HEADWAY LINCOLNSHIRE | Making Headway | Funding is awarded to enable the organisation to provide a safe and secure place for serving personnel, families and veterans affected by life changing brain injury. Support, advice, signposting and friendship will be provided through a range of regular and accessible sessions to support mental health/wellbeing | England/East | 10,000.00 |
| 2022 | Force For Change | Covenant Fund | Home-Start Richmondshire | Because Childhood Can't Wait | This project will support Armed Forces families that have been particularly impacted by the Covid pandemic; and will enable young children to socialise and develop confidence in a safe and supportive environment | England/North East | 10,000.00 |
| 2022 | Force For Change | Covenant Fund | Home-Start Hampshire | By Your Side | The project will support military families in Rushmoor and Hart. Volunteers will deliver tailored, non-judgemental practical, and emotional support for military families; improve their family wellbeing, relationships, and children’s early years progression. | England/South East | 10,000.00 |
| 2022 | Force For Change | Covenant Fund | Home-Start North Wiltshire (formerly Home-Start Kennet) | Friendship for Families | The grant will enable Home-Start North Wiltshire’s Friendship Café to facilitate friendship and support amongst families with young children, all experiencing difficult times. Its calm, welcoming environment will offer a relaxed meeting place, space for children to play, and opportunities to talk with compassionate Home-Start staff and volunteers, sensitive and experienced in family needs | England/South West | 10,000.00 |
| 2022 | Force For Change | Covenant Fund | Liverpool Football Club Foundation | LFC Foundation Military Veterans | Veterans and Families Health and wellbeing events led by the Liverpool FC Foundation Military Veterans programme in collaboration with the Liverpool Veterans Headquarters, will provide a holistic approach to engagement within the Liverpool city region, by promoting healthy lifestyles and wellbeing for veterans' and their families. | England/North West | 10,000.00 |
| 2022 | Force For Change | Covenant Fund | Milton Keynes Dons Sport and Education Trust | MK DonsSET Armed Forces Club | The project will provide activities for Armed Forces veterans, Reservists, and their families to participate in social, physical activity and sporting events in Milton Keynes, enhancing their health and wellbeing and reducing social isolation. | England/South East | 8,260.00 |
| 2022 | Force For Change | Covenant Fund | PramaLife | Supporting Dorset Armed Forces Carers | Project delivered/partially delivered, with some funding not used | England/South West | 9,931.00 |
| 2022 | Force For Change | Covenant Fund | Preston North End Community and Education Trust | PNE Forces | This project will focus on connecting with vulnerable veterans facing challenges with loneliness, isolation, and wellbeing. Using prevention and early intervention activities aligned to the ‘Five Ways to Wellbeing’; ‘PNE Forces’ aims to empower its beneficiaries with the confidence to lead healthier, more mentally resilient lives. | England/North West | 9,970.00 |
| 2022 | Force For Change | Covenant Fund | RAF St Mawgan | Get Together St Mawgan | This project will reduce social isolation and promote wellbeing through reducing social isolation. There will be craft and messy play for parents of preschool children, to facilitate vital sustaining connections, as well as Friday Bakes'n Brews . Both of which enable the Armed Forces Community to catch up face-to-face. | England/South West | 9,460.00 |
| 2022 | Force For Change | Covenant Fund | Red Rose Recovery Lancashire | Lancashire North -Force for Good | This project will provide lpeer- led groups and 1-2-1 support to veterans in North Lancashire who are struggling with addiction, mental illness, housing or isolation. | England/North West | 10,000.00 |
| 2022 | Force For Change | Covenant Fund | Rhondda Hub for Veterans | Housing as the Pathway Back | The project will assist in supporting veterans within the criminal justice system by promoting healthier lifestyles and providing suitable accommodation, to bring about a successful return to civilian life in the community; a reduction in reoffending; sustainable employment opportunities; continuity and an improved quality of life. | Wales | 10,000.00 |
| 2022 | Force For Change | Covenant Fund | Salford Red Devils Foundation | ‘Together Team’ | The project will use targeted support interventions for veterans of all ages; aiming to empower greater social, wellbeing and integration outcomes to improve health and wellbeing. | England/North West | 9,790.00 |
| 2022 | Force For Change | Covenant Fund | The Soldiers, Sailors, Airmen and Families Association – Forces Help | Glasgow’s Veterans United Extra Time | The grant will enable SSAFA to extend Glasgow’s Veterans United to provide additional holistic support to veterans in Glasgow. Through a partnership between SSAFA’s Glasgow Helping Heroes and the Ranger’s Charity Foundation the project will use football to reduce isolation, and support integration especially coming out of the Covid pandemic. | Scotland | 10,000.00 |
| 2022 | Force For Change | Covenant Fund | The Soldiers, Sailors, Airmen and Families Association – Forces Help | VCJS In and Outreach Programme | The grant will enable SSAFA, through the Veterans in the Criminal Justice System (VCJS) support service, to help veterans in prison custody, preparing to be released, on probation or in the community, as well as their families. | Northern Ireland | 3,000.00 |
| 2022 | Force For Change | Covenant Fund | Sporting Force | Special Forces for military families | Project delivered/partially delivered, with some funding not used | England/North East | 9,930.00 |
| 2022 | Force For Change | Covenant Fund | The Royal Marsden Cancer Charity | Volunteers Can certainly Help | Volunteers Can Certainly Help' is a befriending project at The Royal Marsden supporting Armed Forces personnel, veterans, and family members during cancer diagnosis and treatment. The grant will enable volunteers to assess individual requirements, provide personalised support, and offer information on other services available that could help with patient’s specific needs. | England/London | 10,000.00 |
| 2022 | Force For Change | Covenant Fund | Wakefield Trinity Community Foundation | Trinity Together | The project entails a weekly programme of wellbeing activities designed to improve health and social outcomes amongst older veterans living in Wakefield. Delivered from the Be Well Support Stadium, sessions will get veterans physically active, socially connected, and equip them with the skills, confidence, and knowledge to achieve improved wellbeing. | England/North East | 9,850.00 |
| 2022 | Force For Change | Covenant Fund | Walking With the Wounded | WWTW’s North-Shields Gardening Socials | The grant will enable the developed a gardening social group for veterans in North Shields. The project will bring veterans together to socialise and reduce their isolation whilst enjoying the benefits of tending a community garden. Veterans will be responsible for planning and maintaining the garden. | England/North East | 10,000.00 |
| 2022 | Force For Change | Covenant Fund | West of Scotland Military Wives Choir | Sing, Share & Support | The project will strengthen friendship networks, build confidence, and improve mental and physical wellbeing, by singing together. The choir provides a safe place for women with a military link to meet, make friends, and find local support networks. The women are bonded together by singing, music and living a military life. | Scotland | 3,300.00 |
| 2023 | Force For Change | Covenant Fund | AA Veterans Support | AAVSNI Respite Gardens Project | This respite gardens project will encourage veterans to engage with each other in a safe, eclectic and friendly space, reducing isolation, addressing loneliness and providing opportunities improve general wellbeing, as well as that of their families and the wider local community. | Northern Ireland | 9,860.00 |
| 2023 | Force For Change | Covenant Fund | ACVC HUB | Arts & crafts creative development | This project aims to improve the mental health and wellbeing of veterans, spouses and family members,with the aim of reducing isolation and loneliness, through traditional arts and crafts. Arts & Crafts Creative Development will provide tuition-led taster sessions, block courses and ongoing mentoring, whilst encouraging members to improve their skills and build confidence through practice. | Scotland | 9,991.00 |
| 2023 | Force For Change | Covenant Fund | AFC Fylde Community Foundation | Fylde Lest We Forget Project | The Lest We Forget project will support members of the Armed Forces community in Fylde who are living with dementia. The project will provide memory care and physical activities to stimulate memories, while offering the opportunity to connect and reminisce with others. | England/North West | 9,910.00 |
| 2023 | Force For Change | Covenant Fund | Age UK Leicestershire & Rutland | Joining Forces- Moving Forward Project | This project aims to reduce levels of social isolation that can surround older veterans. Joining ForcesMoving Forward will provide a safe, welcoming community that offers support and encouragement to aid veterans to re-connect with friends and comrades alike. | England/East | 9,984.00 |
| 2023 | Force For Change | Covenant Fund | Age UK North Yorkshire Coast & Moors | Helping Hands | Helping Hands will offer veterans bi-monthly Zoom calls and a series of three socialisation opportunities every week in Scarborough and Filey. This project will also consist of a veteran-to-veteran volunteer befriending service, alongside a case worker, in times of crisis | England/North East | 9,994.00 |
| 2023 | Force For Change | Covenant Fund | Army Welfare Service | Weeton Community Woodcraft | Project delivered/partially delivered, with some funding not used | England/North West | 9,900.00 |
| 2023 | Force For Change | Covenant Fund | Blaby District Council | Armed Forces Wellbeing Coffee Morning | Armed Forces Wellbeing Coffee Morning is a monthly 'Coffee and Wellbeing’ morning for members of the local Armed Forces community. The coffee morning will provide an opportunity to build meaningful friendships, reduce the risk of isolation and loneliness plus improve mental health and wellbeing in a safe and secure environment. | England/East | 10,000.00 |
| 2023 | Force For Change | Covenant Fund | The Bolton Guild of Help | You are a Veteran! | You are a Veteran! will provide care and support to elderly, care home and home based, ex-National Servicemen, to help ensure that their personal needs are met quickly and effectively. | England/North West | 9,696.00 |
| 2023 | Force For Change | Covenant Fund | Brooke House Health and Wellbeing Centre | Pathway Out of Isolation II | Trained volunteers will support and maintain the dignity of veterans on their path to recovery. This will be in the form of transport, befriending or providing a warm place and a warm meal during this cost-of-living crisis. | Northern Ireland | 10,000.00 |
| 2023 | Force For Change | Covenant Fund | Carlisle United FC Community Sports Trust | COMBINED FORCES @ CARLISLE UNITED | This project will use the power of Carlisle United Football Club in the community to reach out and engage with Armed Forces veterans of all ages who are socially isolated, lonely and in need support. The project will provide a range of activities designed to improve physical and mental health. | England/North West | 10,000.00 |
| 2023 | Force For Change | Covenant Fund | Castle Community Trust (Formerly known as the HUBB Community Development Resource Centre) | Post Banner (The legacy) | The project will develop and East-West legacy based project between two groups of Veterans 1. Old comrades Belfast 2. Old comrades Shrewsbury, through a social action and capacity building model. The two groups will complete this by visiting both towns for development residentials and zoom workshops on themed topics. | Northern Ireland | 10,000.00 |
| 2023 | Force For Change | Covenant Fund | City of Hull Sport and Community Group CIC | Twelve Rounds to Wellbeing | Twelve Rounds to Wellbeing will use the power of boxing to connect with veterans and family members facing widening socio-economic challenges in Hull. The project will provide safe, accessible opportunities to engage in group-based wellbeing activities that help support better life outcomes associated with physical health, mental fitness and social togetherness. | England/North East | 9,980.00 |
| 2023 | Force For Change | Covenant Fund | Community Drug and Alcohol Recovery Services (CDARS) | Veteran Befriending service | Veterans already engaged with Community Drug and Alcohol Recovery Services (CDARS) and who are in recovery, will be trained to become 'befrienders' or peer buddies and will support new veterans joining CDARS' services. | England/London | 8,895.00 |
| 2023 | Force For Change | Covenant Fund | Defence Gardens Scheme | Grow Your Own | This project will support working age veterans, families and carers struggling with the cost of living crisis. Grow Your Own will deliver the knowledge, skills and experience to sow, grow, harvest and cook fruit and vegetables for healthy eating on a budget | England/East | 9,962.00 |
| 2023 | Force For Change | Covenant Fund | Disability Stockport | Active Ex Forces | Active Ex Forces is a partnership project between Disability Stockport and Stockport Community Foundation, providing a high quality, varied and geographically spread programme specifically for ex-forces men and women with disabilities and neurodiversity. The project aims to improve health and wellbeing, confidence and self-esteem, and quality of life, while reducing isolation. | England/North West | 10,000.00 |
| 2023 | Force For Change | Covenant Fund | East Riding of Yorkshire Council | M.A.S.H Reaching Out | This project aims to combat isolation and improve access to support for members of the Armed Forces community living in the rural areas of the East Riding of Yorkshire. 'M.A.S.H Reaching Out' will provide safe social spaces; wellbeing activities and signposting, delivered by the Military Assistance Social Hub (M.A.S.H.). | England/North East | 10,000.00 |
| 2023 | Force For Change | Covenant Fund | FirstLight Trust | Active and Healthier Together | FirstLight Trust's Active and Healthier Together project aims to bring veterans of the Armed Forces and Blue Light services together to share experiences and provide support to each other through a physical activity and well-being programme. This will contribute to reducing loneliness, isolation, poor mental and physical health. | England/North West | 9,600.00 |
| 2023 | Force For Change | Covenant Fund | Foundation of Light | Connect through Football | Connect Through Football uses the power of football to support Sunderland’s veteran community to come together and engage in activities that empower improved health and social outcomes. Delivered in partnership with Military Veteran Football CIC, weekly football sessions act as a catalyst for supporting comradeship, mental resilience and healthier lifestyles. | England/North East | 9,920.00 |
| 2023 | Force For Change | Covenant Fund | Gloucestershire Recovery and Wellbeing College | Veterans Moving Forwards: Brighter Future | Project delivered/partially delivered, with some funding not used | England/South West | 10,000.00 |
| 2023 | Force For Change | Covenant Fund | Home-start in Suffolk | Catch Up, Coffee & Chat | Home-Start in Suffolk runs Catch up, Coffee and Chat, a weekly, term-time group for military parents and their children. they also organise some holiday activities. The group provides a chance to socialise and relax in a supportive environment away from barracks – building connections, friendships and a sense of community. | England/East | 6,590.00 |
| 2023 | Force For Change | Covenant Fund | Hull 4 Heroes | Hull4Heroes Sport 4 All | The Hull4Heroes Sport 4 All programme will provide much needed social and physical activity for the local Armed Forces community. The project will particularly focus on older, and more vulnerable adults, who may have experienced social isolation and loneliness over the past couple of years | England/North East | 9,940.00 |
| 2023 | Force For Change | Covenant Fund | Leeds United Foundation | Combat Cafe | Leeds United Foundation host the weekly Combat Cafe breakfast club, designed to help combat loneliness and social isolation for veterans living in the local community. The sessions provide a safe space for conversation and discussion, whilst offering breakfast and a warm drink inside Elland Road. | England/North East | 9,980.00 |
| 2023 | Force For Change | Covenant Fund | Mid Ulster Victim's Empowerment | MUVE Veterans Therapeutic Garden | Mid Ulster Victim's Empowerment (MUVE) will continue with the second phase of their therapeutic garden, where veterans can engage in a gardening project. This will reduce isolation, loneliness and detachment by helping veterans engage with their families and local community. | Northern Ireland | 10,000.00 |
| 2023 | Force For Change | Covenant Fund | North Lincolnshire Council | All In | All In will provide social activities for isolated veterans who attend the North Lincolnshire Armed Forces Hub. The project will encourage comradeship over a brew, increasing wellbeing and promoting positive mental health. The activities will also provide a conduit for access to existing services provided at the Armed Forces Hub. | England/North East | 9,600.00 |
| 2023 | Force For Change | Covenant Fund | North Yorkshire Youth | Re-Connect | This project will provide young people with an empowering and interactive experience to reduce isolation and improve resilience with the aim of creating a sense of community. Using adventurous activities, young people will improve their selfesteem, confidence and resilience, supporting improved mental health and community connectivity. | England/North East | 10,000.00 |
| 2023 | Force For Change | Covenant Fund | On Course Foundation | Veterans Golf – North-East Scotland | Project delivered/partially delivered, with some funding not used | Scotland | 7,436.00 |
| 2023 | Force For Change | Covenant Fund | Plymouth Argyle Football in the Community Trust | Veterans Wellbeing Hub | The Veterans Wellbeing Hub will provide a safe environment where veterans can improve their physical and mental wellbeing. This will be achieved through a range of provisions including coffee mornings, wellbeing programmes and physical activity sessions which will aim to reach veterans who are at high risk of health inequalities. | England/South West | 10,000.00 |
| 2023 | Force For Change | Covenant Fund | Royal British Legion Industries (RBLI) | Community Engagement For Veterans | This project will increase and improve community engagement for veterans to combat social isolation and maintain independent living. Community Engagement for Veterans will work with local partners to develop community-based support and activities for veterans to help improve mental health and wellbeing whilst developing their regular engagement with the local community. | England/South East | 10,000.00 |
| 2023 | Force For Change | Covenant Fund | Schomberg Society Kilkeel Ltd | Supporting Integration for Veterans! | Supporting Integration for Veterans! will support local veterans and serving personnel to better integrate with the local community, improving respect and tolerance for the Armed Forces community. Veterans, serving personnel and their families will have the opportunity to participate in film production and training workshops with the aim of encouraging and promoting integration and tackling isolation. | Northern Ireland | 10,000.00 |
| 2023 | Force For Change | Covenant Fund | Sheffield Wednesday FC Community Programme | Active Owls Veterans | Project delivered/partially delivered, with some funding not used | England/North East | 9,900.00 |
| 2023 | Force For Change | Covenant Fund | DEFENCE MEDICAL WELFARE SERVICE (DMWS) | Milton Keynes Armed Forces Welfare | Based in Milton Keynes University Hospital, Defence Medical Welfare Service (DMWS) will provide welfare support to the Armed Forces community and their family members/carers whilst receiving health treatment. DMWS will support with non-clinical issues including loneliness and connecting to the community, finance and housing concerns, substance misuse, and family challenges. | England/South East | 10,000.00 |
| 2023 | Force For Change | Covenant Fund | DEFENCE MEDICAL WELFARE SERVICE (DMWS) | Nottingham Armed Forces Welfare Service | Defence Medical Welfare Service (DMWS) will support members of the Armed Forces community and their family members/carers with issues affecting mental and physical wellbeing. They will provide a friendly face at a stressful time and will support with a range of issues including anxiety, housing or financial issues and substance misuse. | England/East | 10,000.00 |
| 2023 | Force For Change | Covenant Fund | STEPWAY CIO | Banter and Brew Worcestershire | This project will provide a part-time coordinator to oversee five veterans’ drop-in centres operated by STEPWAY in Worcestershire. 'Banter and Brew Worcestershire' will provide a free breakfast alongside social activities for veterans and their families. Support, in conjunction with, training and volunteering opportunities will also be available for participants | England/West Midlands | 10,000.00 |
| 2023 | Force For Change | Covenant Fund | Telford & Wrekin Council | Telford Armed Forces Community Outreach | Telford Armed Forces Community Outreach will provide assistance and support to members of the Armed Forces community in areas such as health and wellbeing and social isolation. Targeted support and advice will also be made available for families and carers who play a vital role in the Armed Forces community. | England/West Midlands | 10,000.00 |
| 2023 | Force For Change | Covenant Fund | Oxfordshire Play Association | Armed Forces Playdays 2023 | Each year Oxfordshire Play Association organises a series of play and activity days at multiple venues across Oxfordshire in line with National Playday, the celebration of the Childs Right to Play (www.playday.org.uk). The Armed Forces Playdays project will focus on play events organised in partnership with their Armed Forces partners. | England/South East | 10,000.00 |
| 2023 | Force For Change | Covenant Fund | Veterans' Growth | Small Acorns Green Woodworking Project | Small Acorns Green Woodworking project provides veterans with the opportunity to build upon knowledge already gained in existing Woodlands Management projects and acquire useful, practical skills in green woodworking. These skills are quickly and easily taught and can be used in a hobby or employment capacity. | England/South East | 10,000.00 |
| 2023 | Force For Change | Covenant Fund | Veterans Outdoors | Sustaining active and healthy lifestyles | The project will help veterans increase their physical activity levels, improve mental health and reduce social isolation through a programme of fitness/exercise, yoga and cooking and nutrition courses and peer support in the heart of Plymouth. Participants will be provided with the skills and support to adopt and sustain healthy lifestyles. | England/South West | 10,000.00 |
| 2023 | Force For Change | Covenant Fund | Veterans Woodcraft CIC | ALL HANDS TOGETHER! | Project delivered/partially delivered, with some funding not used | England/North East | 10,000.00 |
| 2023 | Force For Change | Covenant Fund | Voluntary Action Swindon | Veteran's Drop-in and Men's Shed | This project will provide face to face support through a monthly veteran and Armed Forces dropin’s offering access to specialist services across Swindon. A pilot Men’s Shed project will also combat isolation, offer connection and support as well as providing a safe space to share experiences. | England/South West | 9,560.00 |
| 2023 | Force For Change | Covenant Fund | Welsh Veterans Partnership | Green Head Space WoodWork Shop. | Woodwork Shop provides veterans with the opportunity to participate in a workshop at the Green Head Space in the centre of Cardiff building bespoke wooden furniture and household items. The project aims to boost the wellbeing of isolated veterans and veterans’ families whilst responding to the cost of living crisis | Wales | 10,000.00 |
| 2023 | Force For Change | Covenant Fund | Woody's Lodge | Ty Gwalia (Wales house) | This project will develop a safe, green space providing mindful outdoor activities to improve the mental health and general wellbeing of young, aged and disabled veterans in and around North East Wales. The project also aims to bring Armed Forces families together for nature-based activities. | Wales | 10,000.00 |
| 2023 | Force For Change | Covenant Fund | Age UK North Yorkshire and Darlington | Veterans Together | This project aims to reduce levels of social isolation and loneliness that affect older veterans by providing a safe, welcoming, inclusive community. Support and encouragement will be offered to help veterans get out and about, to re-connect with friends and comrades alike and to access support services. | England/North East | 14,850.00 |
| 2023 | Force For Change | Covenant Fund | Age UK Northumberland | Veteran Connections | This project will help people from the ex-forces community live their best life, whatever the challenges, by tackling loneliness and isolation, financial issues, housing, bereavement, physical and mental deconditioning and scams. | England/North East | 15,000.00 |
| 2023 | Force For Change | Covenant Fund | Army Welfare Service - Hereford | Wild Play | Through this project Army Welfare Service Hereford work in partnership with Herefordshire Wildlife Trust to provide a range of regular nature-based activities for children of the Garrison. The project will provide activities incorporating nature and forest school helping children to connect with their environment and each-other, mitigating the circumstances of high levels of parental deployment. | England/West Midlands | 5,440.00 |
| 2023 | Force For Change | Covenant Fund | Army Welfare Service Brecon | Art Club | Art Club will offer free, regular meetings on Monday evenings during term time on camp, and specific sessions over the holiday period. The project will work with children and young people connected to the camp offering activities including vegetable growing, music, sewing, paints, crafting, design, model making, story-telling, cooking and many more. | Wales | 7,500.00 |
| 2023 | Force For Change | Covenant Fund | Bedford Borough Council | Bedford Borough AFMHFA Training | This project will enhance assess to Armed Forces Mental Health First Aider (AFMHFA) training. It will train an instructor within Bedford Borough. This training will then be provided to local authority employees, voluntary sector organisations, healthcare professionals, local Reservists, and local businesses. | England/East | 15,000.00 |
| 2023 | Force For Change | Covenant Fund | Beyond the Battlefield | Engage, Know, Connect | The project aims to 'Engage' and make direct contact with veterans, create opportunities for them to 'Know' what is available to them and to 'Connect' them with other veterans within their local community. | Northern Ireland | 15,000.00 |
| 2023 | Force For Change | Covenant Fund | Blind Veterans UK | Community-based healthy cooking rehabilitation. | This project will pilot community-based healthy cooking and wellbeing rehabilitation sessions for blind and vision-impaired veterans nationwide, to support them in learning to cook nutritious and cost effective meals independently. | UK-wide | 14,250.00 |
| 2023 | Force For Change | Covenant Fund | The Bradford Bulls Foundation | Golden Point | Prioritising empowering achievement of outcomes associated with physical health, mental wellbeing, and comradeship, ‘Golden Point’ offers accessible, inclusive opportunities for male and female veterans aged 55+ living in Bradford. Participants will be encouraged to come together and engage in physical activities and social activities that inspire them to live healthier, happier, more resilient lives. | England/North East | 14,620.00 |
| 2023 | Force For Change | Covenant Fund | Brooke House Health and Wellbeing Centre | No-one is forgotten. | The project aims to reduce loneliness and isolation felt by veterans in Care Home settings. This will be done by finding connections with others through conversation, music and horticulture. | Northern Ireland | 15,000.00 |
| 2023 | Force For Change | Covenant Fund | Building Heroes Education Foundation | Building Pathways Beyond Isolation | This project is tailored to isolated, vulnerable ex-military personnel in Catterick, offering comprehensive support from peers, caseworkers, and social meetups alongside construction courses. This project aims to ensures smoother transitions to civilian life, fosters socialisation, and addresses participants' anxieties about new environments and experiences. | England/North East | 14,354.00 |
| 2023 | Force For Change | Covenant Fund | CITIZENS ADVICE PORTSMOUTH | Armed Forces Advice Service | The project will offer a dedicated advice service for the armed forces community (including regular personnel, reservists, veterans, their families and bereaved) in and around Portsmouth. This includes advice on aspects such as welfare benefits, housing, debt, family and relationships, employment rights, and general social welfare matters. | England/South East | 14,780.00 |
| 2023 | Force For Change | Covenant Fund | Communities Together East Anglia | Wattisham Community Support | Through this project Wattisham Community Support will give RAF Wattisham staff and families access to help and support via signposting, information and direct contact. The project will use the 5 Ways To Wellbeing model to improve health & wellbeing. In addition WCS will offer tailored workshops and volunteering opportunities to broaden people’s skills and employability. | England/South East | 14,286.00 |
| 2023 | Force For Change | Covenant Fund | Disability Stockport | Cheshire Ex-Forces Autism Social Group | This project will provide a social activity twice a month in an autism friendly and safe space, for autistic ex-forces men and women who feel socially isolated. The Cheshire Ex-Forces Autism Social Group will offer the opportunity to socialise and take part in activities with other neurodiverse ex-forces men and women, helping to reduce isolation, and help improve wellbeing and quality of life. | England/North West | 14,845.00 |
| 2023 | Force For Change | Covenant Fund | East Durham Veterans Trust | EDVT Social Inclusion Programme | This project will provide a creative social inclusion programme that will support our veteran community to help them with a wide range of daily challenges. This field of creative therapy has been used to address traumatic brain injury, stress and anxiety issues, depression and other types of mental disorders. | England/North East | 12,640.00 |
| 2023 | Force For Change | Covenant Fund | Families Together Suffolk (Formerly Home-Start Mid & West Suffolk) | Little Gems Wattisham | Project delivered/partially delivered, with some funding not used | England/East | 7,698.00 |
| 2023 | Force For Change | Covenant Fund | Folkestone Nepalese Community | FNC digital and language inclusion | This project will support English classes and digital inclusion sessions for Gurkha veterans and their family members to help prevent social isolation and to encourage integration into the local community. | England/South East | 11,896.00 |
| 2023 | Force For Change | Covenant Fund | Forces Children Scotland | Young People's Deployment Pack Resource | Forces Children Scotland will co-produce a national deployment pack with and for young people from forces families to help over 5,000 children across Scotland feel more supported with the unique challenges they face when their parents are deployed. The pack will also support parents to adopt effective strategies, and enable educators and professionals to enhance empathy and understanding. | Scotland | 13,915.00 |
| 2023 | Force For Change | Covenant Fund | Gloucester Rugby Foundation | Forces Family Hub | Through this project Forces Family Hub will deliver social, wellbeing, and education opportunities to forces families living in Gloucestershire. Co-created with families, the project entails ‘rugby inspired’ activities focused on tackling needs relating to loneliness and social isolation, mental and emotional wellbeing, and cost-of-living pressures. | England/South West | 14,885.00 |
| 2023 | Force For Change | Covenant Fund | Home-Start Blackmore vale | By Your Families Side | This project will support military families in Blandford, Yeovilton and Blackmore Vale. Trained volunteers will deliver tailored non-judgemental practical and emotional support for military families designed to improve family wellbeing, relationships and children’s early years progression. | England/South West | 8,400.00 |
| 2023 | Force For Change | Covenant Fund | Home-Start Hampshire | Developing By Your Side | This project will extend and develop Home Start Hampshire’s support for military families in Rushmoor and Hart. Volunteers will deliver tailored, practical, and emotional support which improves family wellbeing, relationships and children’s early years. The project will also foster family friendship groups to continue future mutual support. | England/South East | 15,000.00 |
| 2023 | Force For Change | Covenant Fund | Home-Start South Wiltshire | By Your Families Side | This project will support military families in Bulford and Larkhill who are part of the Tidworth super garrison. Well trained volunteers will deliver tailored non-judgemental practical, and emotional support for military families designed to improve their family wellbeing, relationships and children’s early years progression. | England/South West | 10,000.00 |
| 2023 | Force For Change | Covenant Fund | Hull 4 Heroes | Armed Forces Community Outreach Service | This project will deliver outreach to Armed Forces communities in the most economically deprived parts of Hull and surrounding rural villages where evidence shows there is a high percentage of veterans. The project will offer clinics and community projects to those who cannot or are less likely to come into the city centre. | England/North East | 14,770.00 |
| 2023 | Force For Change | Covenant Fund | Hull FC Community Foundation | Shoulder to Shoulder | Shoulder to Shoulder will offer targeted support to members of the armed forces and veterans’ community who are vulnerable and at-risk of exacerbated social-economic inequalities worsened by cost-of-living pressures. Provision will be delivered by upskilled veterans and will prioritise supporting mental wellbeing, resilience, and empowering connections with peers and support services. | England/North East | 14,955.00 |
| 2023 | Force For Change | Covenant Fund | Hull Kingston Rovers Community Trust | HULL KR VETERANS HUB | The Hull KR Veterans Hub will provide isolated veterans in Hull with the opportunity to come together to take part in a range of veteran-led sporting and social activities. These activities are designed to improve physical and mental health and wellbeing whilst also reducing loneliness and isolation and improving family and peer relationships. | England/North East | 15,000.00 |
| 2023 | Force For Change | Covenant Fund | Liverpool Veterans HQ | HQ Kick Start 2 Health | The Liverpool Veterans HQ Kick Start 2 Health programme will be delivered to veterans and their family members in Liverpool. There will also be opportunities for other north west veteran agencies to collaborate and participate in activities. | England/North West | 14,750.00 |
| 2023 | Force For Change | Covenant Fund | Nottingham Forest Community Trust | Forest Forces Social Recovery Programme | This project will work to support the social inclusion of veterans across Nottinghamshire. By working collaboratively with veteran organisations, the project will include events, workshops and social prescribing activities to reduce social isolation, encourage positive life choices and long standing behaviour change. | England/East | 14,999.00 |
| 2023 | Force For Change | Covenant Fund | Outfit Moray | Community Adventure Transition | Outfit Moray will deliver a programme of outdoor learning and adventure for mixed groups of service families and local young people in Primary 7 to both build resilience and support community integration. | Scotland | 14,960.00 |
| 2023 | Force For Change | Covenant Fund | Oxfordshire South & Vale Citizens Advice | Citizens Advice at RAF Benson | Oxfordshire South & Vale Citizens Advice will continue a weekly outreach hub at RAF Benson offering essential expert, confidential, impartial advice to service personnel and their family members. | England/South East | 6,815.00 |
| 2023 | Force For Change | Covenant Fund | Rhondda Hub for Veterans | Housing as the Pathway Back | Project delivered/partially delivered, with some funding not used | Wales | 15,000.00 |
| 2023 | Force For Change | Covenant Fund | Schomberg Society Kilkeel Ltd | Veterans Broadcasting on the Airwaves! | This project will engage with new veterans, serving personnel and their families to participate in a unique community media/radio project. This project will target veterans with limited experience of taking part in community projects. Participants will receive radio/media training with peer-mentors who will support them to broadcast Veterans Radio Programmes. | Northern Ireland | 15,000.00 |
| 2023 | Force For Change | Covenant Fund | The Soldiers, Sailors, Airmen and Families Association – Forces Help | Blue Skies | Glasgow Helping Heroes’ Blue Skies project will focus on working-age veterans who are struggling with civilian life, often marked by loneliness, poor health and wellbeing. The project includes an in-person course for camaraderie and increased self esteem and wellbeing, combined with practical assistance, such as with housing and employment. | Scotland | 14,401.00 |
| 2023 | Force For Change | Covenant Fund | Stockport County Community Trust | Together with the Hatters | Together with the Hatters will utilise a ‘Five Ways to Wellbeing’ approach towards supporting older veterans facing worsening health inequality because of cost-of-living challenges. With a focus on engaging those living alone, with long-term health conditions or facing challenges with loneliness, activities will prioritise improving resilience, friendships, and overall wellbeing. | England/North West | 14,990.00 |
| 2023 | Force For Change | Covenant Fund | Tuppenny Barn Education | Green-Therapy Veteran's Flower Farming | A Social and Therapeutic Horticulture (STH) programme for veterans within the community. This 10-week course will specifically support female veterans experiencing mental ill health or those considered vulnerable. STH will be delivered through flower farming to improve mental wellbeing by working outdoors in nature, within a supportive group. | England/South East | 12,276.00 |
| 2023 | Force For Change | Covenant Fund | The VC Gallery | Lunch Club | The VC Gallery will run a weekly lunch club at their Pembroke Dock site. Volunteers will gain skills including basic cookery skills, manage the charities Fareshare Cymru membership and redistribute surplus food, tackling hunger and cost of living challenges. | Wales | 13,075.00 |
| 2023 | Force For Change | Covenant Fund | Veterans' Growth | Woodworking & Addiction Programme | The Veterans' Growth Woodworking & Addiction Programme is an extension to and combining of two previously successful projects; SMART Recovery & Green Woodworking. Taking what's been learnt from these popular projects, the team will offer addiction therapy around the framework of woodland management and woodworking. | England/South East | 15,000.00 |
| 2023 | Force For Change | Covenant Fund | Veterans In Action | Bricks N Banter | Project delivered/partially delivered, with some funding not used | England/South East | 15,000.00 |
| 2023 | Force For Change | Covenant Fund | Veterans Outdoors | Growing Together | This project will help veterans living with poor mental health to improve wellbeing via a programme of horticultural therapy. A mix of guided and structured courses and light-touch drop-in sessions will help teach veterans how to grow their own food and be self-sufficient while working with others and reducing isolation. | England/South West | 15,000.00 |
| 2023 | Force For Change | Covenant Fund | Walking With the Wounded | Forces for Fishing | Forces for Fishing will provide dedicated angling and fishing opportunities for veterans in the West of Scotland. This project will help to bring veterans together, reduce isolation and improve their physical and mental health, and aims to have a positive effect on mental health and wellbeing. | Scotland | 15,000.00 |
| 2023 | Force For Change | Covenant Fund | Wigan Athletic FC Community Trust | Veterans Wellbeing Walk | Veterans Wellbeing Walk is a collaborative project co-created with older veterans and veteran support organisations in Wigan. The project aims to empower those most at risk of poor social and wellbeing outcomes in later life to come together through a weekly session that promotes comradeship, healthy lifestyles, and mental resilience. | England/North West | 12,930.00 |
| 2023 | Force For Change | Covenant Fund | Wintergreen UK | Art For Veterans | Art for Veterans is a transformative arts project that aims to empower homeless veterans through creative expression. Through mediums like painting, sculpture, and photography, it provides a safe and inclusive space for veterans to heal, build connections and develop skills, fostering personal growth and reintegrating them into society. | Wales | 15,000.00 |
| 2023 | Force For Change | Covenant Fund | Woody's Lodge | Blue Beacon | Blue Beacon is aimed at reducing reoffending rates among veterans through collaboration with other agencies providing reintegration support. The project aims to address the underlying causes of veteran reoffending, promoting successful reintegration into civilian life and reducing the cycle of criminal behaviour. | Wales | 15,000.00 |
| 2023 | Force For Change | Covenant Fund | Wrexham County Borough Council | Wrexham Armed Forces Community Hub | The Hub will provide service personnel, veterans and family members with the confidence, skills to access the help they need, where and when they need it. It will reinforce people's self-reliance, esteem, and self-empowerment. It will be a place where members of the armed forces community feel they 'belong'. | Wales | 14,920.00 |
| 2024 | Force For Change | Covenant Fund | 211 (Londonderry) Tanker Squadron | Caw Garden of Health | This project will reunite all past, current and future comrades by building a garden for the future. The garden will enhance health through planting, create friendship through working, and help prevent isolation, as well as offering relaxation in a friendly and secure location. | Northern Ireland | 14,227.00 |
| 2024 | Force For Change | Covenant Fund | 90 Signals Unit | RAF Leeming Bowl Cinema | RAF Leeming will upgrade an existing bowling facility to become an onsite cinema for both the civilian community and serving personnel that live there. | England/North East | 13,605.00 |
| 2024 | Force For Change | Covenant Fund | Accrington Stanley Community Trust | ASCT Veterans | ASCT Veterans aims to provide a safe and comfortable environment for local veterans to meet, talk about their experiences, seek further support and get involved with activities. These activities include watching and playing sports, attending trips relevant to their interests, and attending a range of armed forces events. | England/North West | 14,452.00 |
| 2024 | Force For Change | Covenant Fund | Age Cymru Powys | Powys Veterans Camaraderie Club | Powys Veterans Camaraderie Club will combat social isolation via fortnightly one-hour telephone group calls for veterans aged 50+ in rural Powys. Offering comradeship, banter, presentations of interest and essential advice, these group calls will offer the opportunity for veterans to chat and support each other. | Wales | 14,880.00 |
| 2024 | Force For Change | Covenant Fund | Age UK North Yorkshire Coast & Moors | Filey Scarborough Veterans support network | Age UK North Yorkshire Coast & Moors will support their existing veterans network with peer support and social prescribing, providing targeted support for veterans identified as vulnerable but not receiving support from other armed forces organisations. | England/North East | 14,702.00 |
| 2024 | Force For Change | Covenant Fund | Age UK Wakefield District | Veterans Connected | Veterans Connected will support 90 elderly veterans in Featherstone, West Yorkshire who are at high risk of crisis due to social isolation and/or poverty and are not engaging with other services. The project will help them access benefit entitlements and build social connections. | England/North East | 13,830.00 |
| 2024 | Force For Change | Covenant Fund | Aurora New Dawn | Standards for domestic/sexual abuse services | Aurora will consult diverse survivors of domestic/sexual abuse/stalking within armed forces communities and local welfare teams to co-produce professional standards for supporting survivors in the armed forces. | England/South East | 15,000.00 |
| 2024 | Force For Change | Covenant Fund | Blaby District Council | Armed Forces Wellbeing Coffee Morning | Blaby District Council will host a monthly wellbeing coffee morning for members of the local armed forces community. Through a programme of tailored activities and information, the coffee morning will provide opportunities to build friendships, reduce the risk of isolation and loneliness, and improve mental health and wellbeing. | England/East | 11,790.00 |
| 2024 | Force For Change | Covenant Fund | The Bolton Guild of Help | Share to Care | Supporting veterans and the wider armed forces community, Share to Care will bring together those in need with those who can help. The project will create a one[1]stop-shop providing advice and guidance and will streamline the benevolent activities of The Bolton Guild of Help so they can provide timely help. | England/North West | 13,792.00 |
| 2024 | Force For Change | Covenant Fund | Bounce Forward | Anxiety Unravelled | Anxiety Unravelled will support military families to explore anxiety, understand how to talk about anxiety and help their children with strategies to deal with anxiety. | UK-wide | 7,460.00 |
| 2024 | Force For Change | Covenant Fund | Broughton House - Veteran Care Village | Veterans’ Community Dementia Care Navigator | This project will employ a Dementia Care Navigator to help armed forces veterans with dementia and their carers access the help and support they need. | England/North West | 14,882.00 |
| 2024 | Force For Change | Covenant Fund | Children First | Children 1st, Armed Forces Families | Children 1st will support armed forces families and their children at risk of, or experiencing crisis in Edinburgh. The project will provide bespoke, wrap-around support to improve health and wellbeing, reduce social isolation and raise educational attainment. Support will be delivered at school, home or in the community, based on families’ needs and preferences. | Scotland | 15,000.00 |
| 2024 | Force For Change | Covenant Fund | Colchester United Community Foundation | ACTIVE TOGETHER | Project delivered/partially delivered, with some funding not used | England/East | 13,440.00 |
| 2024 | Force For Change | Covenant Fund | Dundee Therapy Garden | Dundee Therapy Garden | Dundee Therapy Garden will locate and support isolated veterans who struggle with mental health needs. The project will help veterans reconnect with family, friends and community, aiding recovery so that they can return to work, further education/training or independent living. | Scotland | 15,000.00 |
| 2024 | Force For Change | Covenant Fund | Families Together Suffolk (Formerly Home-Start Mid & West Suffolk) | Little Flyers, Honington | This project will run a free, weekly group for families with children under five based on and around the RAF Honington base. Groups will encourage child development through engagement in crafts and song, while offering parents support and social networks. | England/East | 8,487.00 |
| 2024 | Force For Change | Covenant Fund | The Fighting Chance | Off The Canvas | Off The Canvas is a boxing training outreach programme for older veterans. Designed for all abilities and capabilities, it’s an introduction to boxing training, a chance to get involved in days out, fun activities and an opportunity to meet other veterans. | England/London | 15,000.00 |
| 2024 | Force For Change | Covenant Fund | Home-start in Suffolk | Catch Up, Coffee & Chat | Home-start in Suffolk's Catch up, Coffee and Chat groups for military parents and their children provide a chance to socialise and relax in a supportive environment – building connections, friendships and a sense of community. Groups will be held at both on and off base locations. | England/East | 14,766.00 |
| 2024 | Force For Change | Covenant Fund | Leeds Rhinos Foundation | Rhinos Brew: Veterans Cafe | This project will provide veterans in Leeds with weekly sessions at AMT Headingley Stadium, focusing on education, social engagement, wellbeing and physical activities. Developed collaboratively with both injured and non-injured veterans, these sessions leverage the impact of sports to address loneliness, isolation, and enhance mental, physical and emotional wellbeing. | England/North East | 14,710.00 |
| 2024 | Force For Change | Covenant Fund | Liverpool Football Club Foundation | LFC Foundation Military Veterans | Regular activities and sessions will be delivered throughout the year providing a holistic approach to engagement in the Liverpool city region. Activity will be led by the LFC Foundation Military Veteran lead in collaboration with the Liverpool Veterans Headquarters to promote healthy lifestyles and general wellbeing. | England/North West | 15,000.00 |
| 2024 | Force For Change | Covenant Fund | Millburn Community Development Limited | Coleraine Veterans Club | Coleraine Veterans Club offers local veterans support and hands on activity at The Cornfield Project Site in Coleraine. The club offers activities such as bee keeping, archery, horticulture, a monthly breakfast club within the local community as well as offsite, with a beach club group at Benone Beach. | Northern Ireland | 15,000.00 |
| 2024 | Force For Change | Covenant Fund | Preston North End Community and Education Trust | PNE Forces | PNE Forces supports male veterans facing challenges with reintegration, mental health and homelessness, bringing them together to engage in inclusive, healthy recreation. This new session will engage older veterans of working age in bespoke activities that improve physical and mental wellbeing, readiness to deal with cost-of-living pressures and community engagement. | England/North West | 14,540.00 |
| 2024 | Force For Change | Covenant Fund | Ross-on-Wye Town Council | Armed Forces Community Outreach Pilot | This project will provide outreach provision in Ross-on-Wye, Herefordshire, delivered by the Herefordshire Veteran Support Centre to support veterans, serving personnel, family members, carers and employers. | England/West Midlands | 2,658.00 |
| 2024 | Force For Change | Covenant Fund | Royal Navy Family & People Support | RN Family Support Orientation | This project will link with the parents of Phase One personnel and provide them with a sense of belonging into the Royal Navy family from the onset. They will be encouraged to start building relationships, engage with organisations and gain information that will support them through their entire journey as a Royal Navy family | UK-wide | 15,000.00 |
| 2024 | Force For Change | Covenant Fund | Sale Sharks Foundation | Head Start | Head Start is a wellbeing-centred programme focused on engaging male veterans aged 30 to 55 in community activities that empower them with greater mental and emotional resilience. | England/North West | 13,390.00 |
| 2024 | Force For Change | Covenant Fund | Salford Red Devils Foundation | Veterans Activity Hub | Veterans Activity Hub will provide opportunities for veterans in Salford to come together and engage in activities that empower new social connections, better access to support, and healthier, more active lives. Weekly sessions will be delivered from Eccles College incorporating physical activity, cost-of-living support and resilience building. | England/North West | 9,441.00 |
| 2024 | Force For Change | Covenant Fund | Schomberg Society Kilkeel Ltd | New Armed Forces Men's Shed! | This project will bring veterans, serving personnel and their families together to establish a Men's Shed in Mourne, Co. Down. Aiming to tackle social isolation and encourage engagement and skills development, this new Men's Shed will be a safe haven for the local armed forces community. | Northern Ireland | 15,000.00 |
| 2024 | Force For Change | Covenant Fund | DEFENCE MEDICAL WELFARE SERVICE (DMWS) | Crafting together in North Devon | DMWS will offer a local craft support group to members of armed forces communities in Barnstaple, North Devon, on base at RMB Chivenor. The group will offer a range of creative activities, the chance to meet with all ages of the armed forces community, have fun and build friendships. | England/South West | 15,000.00 |
| 2024 | Force For Change | Covenant Fund | STEPWAY CIO | The Veteran Community Project | The outdoor community project will provide a safe place for veterans and family members to meet and learn new skills. Activities will include, beekeeping, a mushroom farm, archery, bush craft and how to grow your own produce at home. | England/West Midlands | 14,999.00 |
| 2024 | Force For Change | Covenant Fund | Straidhavern Primary School | Wellness Wednesdays for Straidhavern's Families | Armed forces families face additional pressures which can remove them from the support network of families. Wellness Wednesdays provides the opportunity for these parents to make friends in their local area, whilst their children are looked after by trusted school staff. | Northern Ireland | 11,383.00 |
| 2024 | Force For Change | Covenant Fund | Suffolk Family Carers | Armed Forces Family Carers Connected | Armed Forces Family Carers Connected will provide a series of information, advice and guidance workshops for adult family carers in the armed forces community, bringing them together to build networks and decrease isolation. | England/East | 14,419.00 |
| 2024 | Force For Change | Covenant Fund | Telford & Wrekin Council | Telford Veterans' Volunteer Co-ordinator (TVVC) | This project will work with veterans who would like to volunteer within their local communities; and help them to access volunteer opportunities. As part of the project they will raise public awareness of both the need for and the role of veteran volunteering and evaluate and improve the process and experience. | England/West Midlands | 15,000.00 |
| 2024 | Force For Change | Covenant Fund | The Royal Navy and Royal Marines Charity | Bringing The Submarine Family Together | Project delivered/partially delivered, with some funding not used | Scotland | 15,000.00 |
| 2024 | Force For Change | Covenant Fund | UK Loan Service Brunei | Wild Boar Kids Club Brunei | A kids club offering a programme of monthly events and a holiday club for the children of the UK Loan Service Team in Brunei. The project aims to bring children and families together to reduce loneliness and isolation and engender resilience in a challenging living environment. | Overseas | 12,550.00 |
| 2024 | Force For Change | Covenant Fund | VETERANS WITH DOGS | Support Paws: Empowering Military Children | Support Paws is a pilot scheme that introduces Community Dogs to UK schools to provide emotional support for military children. Collaborating with SSCE Cymru and BERA, the project aims to improve wellbeing, resilience and educational outcomes. | Wales | 14,800.00 |
