Frequently asked questions
Please note, we will add to this list if and when we receive queries from applicants.
Does my project need to achieve both programme outcomes?
Yes.
Can armed forces units or bases apply for funding under this programme?
No, but they can work in partnership with other eligible organisations, if the work will develop tangible links between civilian communities and local command, and offer routes for learning and referrals.
What does the Trust mean by collaborative projects/working?
We mean organisations working together for the benefit of armed forces communities.
We are a specialist, non-armed forces Community Interest Company (CIC), can we apply for funding under this programme?
Yes, however, you may need to work with another organisation if you don’t have substantial experience of working with the armed forces community. There is more information on this in the programme guidance.
What does ‘defined or bespoke mental health and wellbeing support’ mean?
This refers to mental health interventions which are specifically designed to meet the unique needs of individuals or groups, rather than using a one-size-fits-all method.
Our application focuses on a ‘seldom heard’ group that isn’t mentioned in your programme guidance examples. Can we still apply?
Yes, if your project addresses the needs of armed forces groups or individuals whose voices, opinions or needs are not frequently or adequately represented in mainstream policies or services.
I have an idea for a project but I’m not sure if it will be funded. Can I talk through with someone at the Trust before I submit my application?
All the information you need is included in the programme guidance material on this page. This will help you to decide whether to submit an application. To ensure that all applicants are treated fairly, we’re unable to provide individualised advice.
Can we use funds for individual support grants to meet specific needs?
No. You cannot use funds to benefit only one person, or to make grants or donations of money or items to individuals or families. Please refer to the programme guidance for further information on use of funds.
We encourage you to take a look at the application questions before beginning your online application to the Hidden Voices programme.
Please note, this is for reference only and applications can only be made via our online application portal.
You can also view the terms and conditions to receiving a grant.
Awards Made
You can view the awards made under this programme below.
| Year awarded | Programme | Funder | Organisation name | Project title | Project description | Project location | Grant amount |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | Hidden Voices | Covenant Fund | Belfast Exposed Photography | Healing Through The Lens | Healing Through The Lens will engage serving personnel, veterans and armed forces families through a creative mental health and wellbeing community hub using tailored Therapeutic Photography. The project will collaborate with armed forces and specialist non armed forces organisations to reduce health inequalities, raising awareness across a wider audience. | Northern Ireland | 20,000.00 |
| 2024 | Hidden Voices | Covenant Fund | Hull FC Community Foundation | One Community | One Community is a new prevention-based project, co-created alongside foreign and commonwealth nations personnel at Normandy Barracks Leconfield, which aims to support greater mental health and wellbeing. Co-delivered alongside third-sector organisations and veterans with lived experience, group activities will tackle inequalities, stimulate connections, build resilience, and improve wellbeing. | England/North East | 17,560.00 |
| 2024 | Hidden Voices | Covenant Fund | Mind in West Essex | Wellbeing at Wimbish | Wellbeing at Wimbish will deliver person-centred interventions that support good mental health. These will include: mental health toolkit training, sleep training, CBT sessions using Virtual Reality, support for those experiencing poor mental health as a result of loneliness and isolation, supported self-help and drop-in sessions. | England/East | 19,966.00 |
| 2024 | Hidden Voices | Covenant Fund | The Parenting Network | Dadzchat | Dadzchat provides a safe space for Dads and male care givers to share experiences and develop tools in response to trauma and challenges of parenthood which may be affecting their mental health or that of their family. | England/South East | 18,877.00 |
| 2024 | Hidden Voices | Covenant Fund | Southampton Family Trust | Building Respectful Families | Southampton Family Trust will offer three online courses for parents of children (aged 8-12) experiencing child-to-parent violence and abuse. Topics include emotional regulation, anger and trauma, neurodivergence, social media and gaming, and effective positive parenting strategies. | UK-wide | 6,244.00 |
| 2024 | Hidden Voices | Covenant Fund | DEFENCE MEDICAL WELFARE SERVICE (DMWS) | Supporting Dorset Armed Forces Carers | DMWS will provide welfare support to carers within the armed forces community in Dorset. Carers often don’t label themselves as such or reach out for support due to guilt or shame. This project will help them look after their own wellbeing so they can continue to support those they love. | England/South West | 20,000.00 |
| 2024 | Hidden Voices | Covenant Fund | STEPWAY CIO | Ladies of Leisure (LOL) | A female veteran group that will tackle topics such as the menopause. Ladies of Leisure will improve overall mental wellbeing through activities, support groups, horticultural therapy and art sessions. | England/West Midlands | 19,730.00 |
| 2024 | Hidden Voices | Covenant Fund | Stockport County Community Trust | Veterans Carers Hub | Veterans Carers Hub is a collaborative intervention focused on empowering better health and wellbeing outcomes for carers within the armed forces and veteran community. Working in partnership with local VCSE organisations, bespoke activities will focus on tackling prevalent inequalities related to loneliness, social isolation, and poor mental and emotional wellbeing. | England/North West | 18,395.00 |
| 2024 | Hidden Voices | Covenant Fund | Walking With the Wounded | Empowering Carers through psycho education | Online psycho education sessions will provide knowledge and skills to help carers and families to manage their own wellbeing whilst better understanding the mental health needs of their family member. The focus will be on self-care and early intervention to protect their own mental health whilst supporting their family member. | UK-wide | 19,989.00 |
| 2025 | Hidden Voices | Covenant Fund | Battling On CIC | Stepping Forward | This pilot project is aimed at supporting LGBTQ+ community who have experienced discrimination and prejudice when serving in the armed forces. The project will provide new working methodologies and cascade information, advice and guidance through Cornwall, Devon and Plymouth Covenant Teams. | England/South West | 20,000.00 |
| 2025 | Hidden Voices | Covenant Fund | The Block | Resilience & Recovery | Providing tailored mental health and wellbeing services for seldom heard voices, particularly those who are homeless or at risk of being homeless, in the armed forces community by focusing on accessibility, inclusivity, and culturally competent care. | England/North West | 19,998.00 |
| 2025 | Hidden Voices | Covenant Fund | Carers Plus Yorkshire Ltd (prev Scarborough & Ryedale Carers Resource) | Caring with Active Confidence | Supporting veteran carers and carers of veterans to be confident and resilient when navigating the emotional impact being an unpaid carer brings to life. Support around key themes faced by carers such as guilt around taking time for yourself to accessing support when your needs feel less of a priority. | England/North East | 18,652.00 |
| 2025 | Hidden Voices | Covenant Fund | Disability Stockport | Cheshire Ex-Forces Autism Social Group | Providing a social activity twice a month in an autism friendly and safe space, for autistic ex-forces men and women who feel socially isolated. This is an opportunity to socialise and do activities with other neurodiverse ex[1]forces men and women, helping to reduce their isolation and improve their wellbeing and quality of life. | England/North West | 19,026.00 |
| 2025 | Hidden Voices | Covenant Fund | Gloucester Rugby Foundation | Stronger Together | Project delivered/partially delivered, with some funding not used | England/South West | 19,430.00 |
| 2025 | Hidden Voices | Covenant Fund | HWLincs Limited | Hidden UK Military voices | The project will identify and address gaps in mental health and wellbeing support for seldom-heard armed forces minority groups in Lincolnshire. Surveys, interviews, focus groups and case studies will be used to inform preventative and early intervention strategies for improved service provision. | England/East | 15,000.00 |
| 2025 | Hidden Voices | Covenant Fund | LimeCulture | Strengthening Military Sexual Violence Support | This collaborative project will improve the provision of community-based, accessible mental health support and advocacy for victim-survivors of military sexual violence (MSV) UK-wide. Enhanced training and resources for civilian ‘independent sexual violence advisers’ (ISVAs) will strengthen understanding of the unique needs of victim[1]survivors within the military and veteran community. | UK-wide | 20,000.00 |
| 2025 | Hidden Voices | Covenant Fund | Preston North End Community and Education Trust | Connecting Our Veterans | Connecting Our Veterans offers an early-intervention approach towards meeting the mental health and wellbeing needs of older male veterans in care homes who are facing challenges with accessing community activity. One-to-one support combined with group activities co-delivered with VCSE organisations will support improved resilience, comradeship, and access to specialist services. | England/North West | 19,960.00 |
| 2025 | Hidden Voices | Covenant Fund | Rees Foundation | From Care to Command | Rees Foundation is dedicated to supporting care leavers in the armed forces, a group often unheard and overlooked. The aim is to amplify their voices, raise awareness, and provide tailored support, ensuring they receive the guidance and resources needed to live fulfilling, purposeful lives, both in and out of service. | England/West Midlands | 19,767.00 |
| 2025 | Hidden Voices | Covenant Fund | Sale Sharks Foundation | Pride in Motion | In partnership with Fighting With Pride, this is a new project focused on supporting the mental health and wellbeing needs of LGBT+ veterans living in Greater Manchester. Developed alongside those with lived experiences, activities will prioritise tackling inequalities associated with loneliness and social isolation, mental-ill health, and discrimination | England/North West | 19,800.00 |
| 2025 | Hidden Voices | Covenant Fund | Salute Her UK | Rise & Rebuild Women Veterans | Rise and Rebuild is a project aimed at empowering women through personal stories of recovery and resilience. Individual comics will feature a series of short stories, each focusing on the women's journey of overcoming adversity and finding strength in their unique experiences. | UK-wide | 20,000.00 |
| 2025 | Hidden Voices | Covenant Fund | Service Dogs UK | Comrades and Canines | The Comrades and Caines Project aims to heal and improve quality of life through the transformative power of dogs. Veterans with PTSD will be paired with a dog for life. Together they will embark on a programme to improve their confidence, wellbeing, help to manage symptoms and reduce isolation. | England/South West | 19,380.00 |
| 2025 | Hidden Voices | Covenant Fund | DEFENCE MEDICAL WELFARE SERVICE (DMWS) | Support for Veterans’ Children London | DMWS will support veterans’ families in London with complex challenges to access support for themselves and their children who can be facing many different issues including the impact of their veteran parents’ health, their own mental health, SEND issues or feelings of isolation or lack of community belonging and opportunities. | England/London | 19,226.00 |
| 2025 | Hidden Voices | Covenant Fund | Start360 | Crafting Resilience | Crafting Resilience will address seldom heard voices of veterans involved in the criminal justice system across the NI prison estate through the use of therapeutic creative arts and SMART Veterans. This programme will reduce social isolation & anxiety, encourage peer support, provide soft skills training and address addictions. | Northern Ireland | 20,000.00 |
| 2025 | Hidden Voices | Covenant Fund | Wigan Athletic FC Community Trust | Positive Futures | Working in collaboration with Armed Forces Community HQ and partners from Wigan’s voluntary sector, Positive Futures is a new, prevention-first approach supporting early service leavers through a defined wellbeing intervention. This will involve co-created activities to improve mental health and wellbeing, create stronger community connections, and inspire better life outcomes. | England/North West | 19,785.00 |
| 2025 | Hidden Voices | Covenant Fund | Accrington Stanley Community Trust | Stanley Strong: Women Who Served | Stanley Strong creates a space that is safe and supportive whilst engaging women veterans in weekly fitness and wellbeing sessions. Through peer mentoring, trauma-informed workshops, and social events, the project tackles stigma, improves mental health, and builds sustainable peer networks, empowering women to thrive beyond military life. | England/North West | 23,828.00 |
| 2025 | Hidden Voices | Covenant Fund | ACVC HUB | Beyond the Uniform: my identity | A creative project that explores the lives, identities, and voices of veterans and their families beyond military service. Many in the community feel unseen or reduced to a label. This project aims to change that by giving space for seldom heard voices to be recognised and celebrated through art, storytelling, and exhibits. | Scotland | 24,899.00 |
| 2025 | Hidden Voices | Covenant Fund | Age Cymru Gwynedd a Môn | Veterans Wellbeing Connections | This project will deliver tailored wellbeing support for older veterans and their families across Gwynedd, Anglesey and Conwy who experience isolation or face barriers to help. Through outreach, peer groups and bilingual activities, it will strengthen connections, improve mental health and ensure seldom heard voices are recognised. | Wales | 25,000.00 |
| 2025 | Hidden Voices | Covenant Fund | Aurora New Dawn | Consulting forces children; co-designing support. | Aurora New Dawn will consult with and amplify the voices of children affected by domestic abuse, sexual violence, and stalking within armed forces families. By listening to their experiences, the project will deepen understanding of their needs and co-create tailored support models. These models aim to enhance mental and physical health, promote wellbeing, and ensure that children in forces communities receive compassionate, effective care. | England/South East | 25,000.00 |
| 2025 | Hidden Voices | Covenant Fund | British Limbless Ex-Service Men's Association | Supporting Limbless Veterans’/Carers’ Health Needs | This one-year project will help beneficiaries (limbless/injured veterans and their partners/carers) with complex comorbidities to access bespoke fitness and mental health/wellbeing activities and support. Blesma will work with specialist providers/organisations to gain mutual learning, exchange knowledge and establish best practice to provide long-term support to at-risk disabled veterans and partners. | UK-wide | 24,973.00 |
| 2025 | Hidden Voices | Covenant Fund | Castle Community Trust | Veterans resilience project | Castle Community Trust supports Old Comrades Veterans Group through health and wellbeing activities, including physical exercise, environmental projects, capacity building, and social engagement. The project supports inclusion, resilience, and connection, helping veterans enhance quality of life while strengthening community bonds through meaningful shared action. | Northern Ireland | 25,000.00 |
| 2025 | Hidden Voices | Covenant Fund | Climb 2 Recovery | Scaling Recovery, Reaching Hidden Voices | This project will deliver three trauma-informed courses for veterans from a largely forgotten community, funded to provide additional capacity in response to rapidly growing demand. Using climbing and peer-led community, the project offers evidence-based, relational support, creating opportunities for healing, belonging, and recovery where traditional systems are insufficient. | England/East | 24,000.00 |
| 2025 | Hidden Voices | Covenant Fund | Morecambe FC Community Foundation | Stronger Together | ‘Stronger Together’ represents an early intervention approach tackling severe loneliness in older veterans living alone in care settings, supported living accommodation, and in the community. Personalised one-to-one support and accessible group activity will create trusted relationships, social connections, development of new skills, and improve access to specialist mental health services. | England/North West | 24,042.00 |
| 2025 | Hidden Voices | Covenant Fund | Disability Stockport | NeuroConnect: Veteran Wellbeing Support | NeuroConnect will support neurodivergent veterans to rebuild connection, confidence, and calm. Through sensory-aware naturebased activities and inclusive social meetups, it offers a lifeline to those silenced by overwhelm and isolation, creating trusted spaces where mental wellbeing is nurtured, voices are heard, and neurodivergent veterans feel understood, seen, safe, and supported. | England/North West | 25,000.00 |
| 2025 | Hidden Voices | Covenant Fund | The Fighting Chance | Strong Voices, Strong Women | Strong Voices, Strong Women will provide weekly women-only sessions combining boxing, physical activity and facilitated wellbeing groups. The project supports veterans to build confidence, reduce isolation and strengthen connections. Learning from participants’ experiences will be shared with health and veteran organisations to raise awareness and influence more inclusive future provision. | England/London | 25,000.00 |
| 2025 | Hidden Voices | Covenant Fund | Green Synergy | Seeds of Recovery | Seeds of Recovery will support military veterans living with PostTraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) through a gentle, nature-based gardening and social therapeutic horticulture programme. Rooted in green spaces, the project aims to improve mental health and wellbeing while providing creative opportunities for veterans to share their stories and reconnect with the natural world. | England/East | 22,764.00 |
| 2025 | Hidden Voices | Covenant Fund | Home-Start Lomond | Stronger Starts, Brighter Futures | This project will support the mental health of babies and infants within serving families by offering social and developmental opportunities, sessions to support positive parental attachment and individualised 'at home' support to families where infant mental health is at risk. | Scotland | 25,000.00 |
| 2025 | Hidden Voices | Covenant Fund | LABRATS | NTV Connections | This project aims to enhance support to Nuclear Test Veterans and their families through a dedicated health, wellbeing and bereavement service. | UK-wide | 5,000.00 |
| 2025 | Hidden Voices | Covenant Fund | Mid Ulster Victims Empowerment Project | Dark Days to Light | The MUVE project will deliver Cognitive Behavioural Therapy alongside educational support for literacy and numeracy, complemented by an arts therapy programme. It is designed to support MUVE community members aged 40–60, both men and women, helping them build resilience, improve wellbeing, and access tailored therapeutic and learning opportunities. | Northern Ireland | 25,000.00 |
| 2025 | Hidden Voices | Covenant Fund | Mind in Camden | Veterans Voices: Empowering Women | This co-designed project will create a tailored mental health support service for women veterans. Using a self-directed support model to offer equitable, needs-based support to improve their mental health and increase their access to wellbeing resources. The project will raise awareness with professionals of the specific challenges this group faces. | England/London | 24,000.00 |
| 2025 | Hidden Voices | Covenant Fund | Newcastle Rugby Foundation | The True Grit Project | The True Grit Project will unite LGBT+ veterans with specialist charities in the North East, combining inclusive fitness and emotional intelligence coaching to enhance wellbeing, resilience, and social connection, while raising awareness of their unique needs within the armed forces community and the broader support sector. | England/North East | 17,550.00 |
| 2025 | Hidden Voices | Covenant Fund | Northern Ireland Music Therapy Trust | Beats of Bravery | The Beats of Bravery Project will provide access to mental health and well-being support for veterans in a care setting through the delivery of music therapy interventions and group-work. | Northern Ireland | 13,967.00 |
| 2025 | Hidden Voices | Covenant Fund | Rape and Sexual Abuse Support Service South Buckinghamshire | Hidden No More: Forces Survivors | Providing specialist counselling and therapeutic support for veterans, reservists, and armed forces families affected by sexual abuse in Buckinghamshire. In partnership with a local forces’ charity, the project will offer safe, confidential, trauma-informed care to improve wellbeing, reduce isolation, and ensure seldom-heard voices are listened to and supported. | England/South East | 25,000.00 |
| 2025 | Hidden Voices | Covenant Fund | Scottish Action for Mental Health | Veterans' Wellbeing at the Nook | A Peer Wellbeing Programme for veterans experiencing mental health challenges delivered from a new walk-in mental health hub in Glasgow. The programme will provide structured sessions designed to reduce isolation, build resilience, and promote wellbeing, together with seamless and immediate access to professional mental health services available within the hub. | Scotland | 23,601.00 |
| 2025 | Hidden Voices | Covenant Fund | SSAFA, the Armed Forces charity | Domestic Abuse Mental Health Support | SSAFA’s project provides vital specialist, mental health counselling to highly vulnerable women and children from the Armed Forces community. The support is available to SSAFA’s residential beneficiaries - women and children who have fled domestic abuse, and to those accessing SSAFA’s growing domestic abuse outreach (remote) service. | UK-wide | 24,760.00 |
| 2025 | Hidden Voices | Covenant Fund | Defence Medical Welfare Service (DMWS) | Caring together: Uncovering Dorset voices | DMWS will provide welfare support to elderly veterans and caregivers within the armed forces community who often slip through the net of existing services. Many do not reach out for help and face isolation and barriers to wellbeing, which can impact their ability to care for loved ones. This project aims to remove those barriers, offering compassionate, accessible support that strengthens resilience and improves quality of life. | England/South West | 25,000.00 |
| 2025 | Hidden Voices | Covenant Fund | Tuppenny Barn Education | Veterans Bloom | Tuppenny Barn is an organic smallholding that provides a safe and inclusive place for people to take part in nature-based therapeutic activities. Veteran’s Bloom, is a Social Therapeutic Horticulture flower farming programme, using gardening to improve the physical and mental wellbeing of female veterans, building skills, confidence and community. | England/South East | 20,000.00 |
| 2025 | Hidden Voices | Covenant Fund | V-Aid | Service. Sentence. Service. | Many veterans in prison are invisible to traditional services—caught between stigma, trauma, and institutionalisation. This project supports them to mentor others, produce humanitarian aid, and share their lived experience. Their voices will shape future support and challenge perceptions of veterans who are too often excluded or unheard. | Wales | 21,000.00 |
| 2025 | Hidden Voices | Covenant Fund | Veterans In Action | RISE (Resilience, Inspire, Support, Empower) | This project will provide dedicated support for the partners of veterans living with trauma. Through peer-led groups, workshops, and well-being activities, it will give seldom-heard partners a safe space to be understood, improve their resilience, and influence wider awareness across the armed forces community. | England/South East | 24,950.00 |
| 2025 | Hidden Voices | Covenant Fund | Birchwood | Connected Support West Lancs | Connected Support is a community-driven project transforming the lives of overlooked veterans in West Lancashire. Providing counselling, housing, peer outreach, and practical coaching, it amplifies unheard voices, promotes equitable access, and embeds shared learning to strengthen local services, ensuring sustainable, trauma-informed support for those often missed by statutory systems. | England/North West | 25,000.00 |
| 2025 | Hidden Voices | Covenant Fund | Woody's Lodge | Pathways to Support | Pathways to Support will build strong partnerships between the veteran’s community and specialist organisations to identify service gaps, deliver tailored interventions, and raise awareness of veterans’ unique needs. Two Veterans Engagement Coordinators will lead inclusive outreach and collaboration, ensuring long-term integration and sustained support through co-designed, accessible services and shared learning. | Wales | 25,000.00 |
| 2026 | Hidden Voices | Covenant Fund | Age UK Lancashire | Morecambe Veterans’ Dementia Hub | Age UK Lancashire and Bay Veterans are developing a Dementia Hub in Morecambe to provide a drop-in resource for veterans living with dementia and their careers. The Hub will connect veterans living with dementia with their peers and provide advice and signposting to support the veterans’ and their carers’ wellbeing. | England/North West | 22,270.00 |
| 2026 | Hidden Voices | Covenant Fund | Bravehound | Life Changing Bravehound dogs | Bravehound offers trained assistance dogs and tailored support for military veterans, with a particular focus on those living with mental health conditions. To expand the reach of its services and maintain a high standard of ongoing care for existing beneficiaries, Bravehound will introduce extra training sessions. This approach ensures that more veterans can benefit from the programme while current participants continue to receive the support they need. | Scotland | 25,000.00 |
| 2026 | Hidden Voices | Covenant Fund | Bulldogs Boxing & Community Activities | Between Two Worlds | A community-based mental health and wellbeing project providing tailored coaching, peer support and inclusive events for reservists and their families. The project will reduce isolation, improve emotional resilience and strengthen community connections through accessible, preventative support designed around the lived experiences of reservist families. | Wales | 25,000.00 |
| 2026 | Hidden Voices | Covenant Fund | Care after Combat | Veteran Transition Support | The Veteran Transition Support Officer will work with Probation services providing practical and emotional support to veterans immediately on release from prison. The veteran will be met at the prison gate and taken to the initial Probation appointment. Subsequent appointments can also be included including accommodation and healthcare appointments. | England/North East | 23,881.00 |
| 2026 | Hidden Voices | Covenant Fund | Cyrenians | Linburn- sharing, food, culture, community | At Linburn garden, Cyrenians provide a safe, inclusive sanctuary. Nature-based early intervention work and wellbeing activities support veterans before crisis point, improving relationships, social interaction and mental health. This project raises awareness of and removes barriers to support for veterans from Foreign and Commonwealth communities, ensuring their voices are heard. | Scotland | 25,000.00 |
| 2026 | Hidden Voices | Covenant Fund | Dimobi Children Disability Trust | Pathways for Neurodiverse Service Families | Specialist mental health and wellbeing support for serving and veteran families in Greater Manchester who are raising neurodiverse children, delivered through tailored workshops, peer support groups and military-aware resources to reduce isolation and improve access to help. | England/North West | 25,000.00 |
| 2026 | Hidden Voices | Covenant Fund | DorPIP | Secure Beginnings for Service Families | DorPIP and Home‑Start Blackmore Vale support families at Blandford Camp through infant massage, perinatal groups, parent‑infant psychotherapy and tailored home visiting. The project strengthens early relationships, builds parental confidence and supports emotional wellbeing, helping families create secure and nurturing home environments during the critical early years. | England/South West | 25,000.00 |
| 2026 | Hidden Voices | Covenant Fund | Female Veterans Alliance | Female Veterans’ Wellbeing Pathway | This project will deliver two trauma-informed wellbeing retreats for female veterans and develop five tailored wellbeing toolkits for female veterans and organisations supporting them. It will improve access to appropriate mental health support while raising awareness and best practice across the Armed Forces support sector. | Wales | 25,000.00 |
| 2026 | Hidden Voices | Covenant Fund | Headway Derby | Beyond the Line | Headway Derby's project will support the veteran brain injury community to feel heard, supported, and understood whilst creating a peer support space that allows individuals to come together and create resources, displays, and pieces of art that explain their feelings post injury whilst campaigning for a proper pathway of support. | England/East | 21,618.00 |
| 2026 | Hidden Voices | Covenant Fund | Moray Rape Crisis | Support for Sexual Abuse Survivors | The Support for Sexual Abuse Survivors project will provide specialist support, advocacy and information for current and former armed forces personnel, who are affected by sexual violence, including rape, sexual assault and childhood sexual abuse. The project will additionally support partners and family members affected by sexual violence. | Scotland | 20,709.00 |
| 2026 | Hidden Voices | Covenant Fund | NEWLEAF FOUNDATION | Hidden Voices | The Hidden Voices Project will deliver free weekly sports, baking, cooking and employment sessions in Manchester for up to 80 women and girls from armed forces families who have experienced abuse, helping them overcome isolation, build confidence, form supportive friendships and move towards training or work. | England/North West | 25,000.00 |
| 2026 | Hidden Voices | Covenant Fund | Oldham Athletic Community Trust | Veterans Wellbeing Collective | The Veterans Wellbeing Collective will use the power of physical activity to support mental health and wellbeing improvements in older veterans (male and female) who are living with a chronic health condition. Co-created with potential beneficiaries and trusted partners, this new project prioritises outcomes association with inclusion, accessibility, empowerment, and collaboration. | England/North West | 19,244.00 |
| 2026 | Hidden Voices | Covenant Fund | Orchestra of the Swan | Café Muse, Veteran Dementia Café | This project is a continuation of a weekly, music-led, participative, free-to-attend dementia-friendly café for armed forces veterans and their families living with dementia. Sessions improve participants’ emotional wellbeing, cognitive function and boost self-esteem, while carers benefit from much-needed respite and peer support. | England/West Midlands | 25,000.00 |
| 2026 | Hidden Voices | Covenant Fund | Outfit Moray | Kinloss Outdoor Adventure for Wellbeing | Outdoor adventurous activities for all pupils at Kinloss Primary to improve wellbeing, confidence, resilience, social bonds, connection with Moray through school outdoor learning and adventure activities in partnership with Kinloss Primary School Staff, parents and Army Welfare Service. | Scotland | 24,660.00 |
| 2026 | Hidden Voices | Covenant Fund | PEGS | Hidden Voices Creative Wellbeing Programme | A creative wellbeing programme supporting armed forces families affected by abuse from their children. The project offers trauma-informed group support, creative workshops, and peer connection, alongside co-produced resources and a public exhibition to raise awareness of this hidden issue and improve emotional wellbeing. | UK-wide | 25,000.00 |
| 2026 | Hidden Voices | Covenant Fund | Prison Radio Association | Supporting Veterans Behind Bars | A series of National Prison Radio features and creative workshops for veterans in prison, giving them a voice, connection, and support. The project helps veterans access mental health and wellbeing services, share their experiences, and raises awareness among organisations about the unique challenges faced by this seldom-heard group. | England/London | 20,038.00 |
| 2026 | Hidden Voices | Covenant Fund | Raw Performance CIC | Mission Rebuild | A holistic wellbeing programme for Early Service Leavers, providing veteran-led tactical fitness, nutritional workshops, and peer mentorship. Partnering with Impact Wellbeing Solutions, the project rebuilds identity and confidence through physical achievement and community-focused support for early service leavers and their families. | Wales | 24,940.00 |
| 2026 | Hidden Voices | Covenant Fund | RED ROSE RECOVERY LANCASHIRE | Breaking Barriers, Building Lives | This project will deliver tailored, peer-led mental health and wellbeing support for veterans whose needs are seldom heard, including those facing barriers to help-seeking. Through trauma-informed group and one-to-one interventions, the project will improve wellbeing, reduce isolation, and strengthen pathways into sustainable support and recovery. | England/North West | 22,800.00 |
| 2026 | Hidden Voices | Covenant Fund | Schomberg Society Kilkeel Ltd | Step up and Stand Out! | The project will deliver boxing-based fitness and wellbeing sessions, peer-support and signposting to mental-health and welfare services. It will target veterans, and veterans’ families living in the Mournes and South Down, particularly those in rural and isolated communities whose voices are seldom heard due to fear, stigma and past conflict. | Northern Ireland | 25,000.00 |
| 2026 | Hidden Voices | Covenant Fund | Defence Medical Welfare Service (DMWS) | Identifying Veterans in Unscheduled Care | DMWS and Scottish Ambulance Service will work together to identifying hard to reach veterans who present through unscheduled care and are at risk of falling through the cracks. Support will be provided for health concerns, loneliness, housing or financial issues, connecting to much needed care and preventing crisis. | Scotland | 24,369.00 |
| 2026 | Hidden Voices | Covenant Fund | STEPWAY CIO | Rob’s Watch: Recognise- Respond- Refer | Rob’s Watch: Recognise – Respond – Refer will provide online support and advocacy for families affected by mild traumatic brain injury and suicide. The project will give hidden families a safe place to speak, specialist guidance, and a clear pathway to early recognition, timely response, and practical action. | UK-wide | 25,000.00 |
| 2026 | Hidden Voices | Covenant Fund | Venture Trust | Outdoor Therapy for Veterans | Outdoor Therapy for Veterans will provide clinically led, one-to-one counselling delivered outdoors across Greater Glasgow for veterans who cannot engage with traditional indoor services. Counsellors will offer tailored, trauma-informed support in accessible green spaces, improving mental health, reducing isolation and strengthening pathways back into wider community and specialist provision. | Scotland | 25,000.00 |
| 2026 | Hidden Voices | Covenant Fund | Tranmere Rovers in the Community (TRIC) | Womens Veterans Active Wellbeing ! | Tranmere Rovers in the Community (TRIC) will run a weekly wellbeing project specifically for women Army veterans, with activities designed and led by participants. The programme will feature exercise sessions, cookery classes, group walks, relaxed social gatherings over a cup of tea, and practical support for everyday life challenges - ensuring that all activities are shaped by the women involved. | England/North West | 25,000.00 |
| 2026 | Hidden Voices | Covenant Fund | The Verbal | Our Voice, Our Choice | The Our Voice Our Choice project amplifies the experiences of serving personnel, veterans and their families whose needs are often unheard. Using lived-experience insight, targeted outreach and partnership working, it removes barriers to fair, timely, veteran-centred health access, improving mental health, wellbeing and system responsiveness for underrepresented armed forces communities. | Northern Ireland | 24,914.00 |
| 2026 | Hidden Voices | Covenant Fund | Waythrough | RESET – Support without Stigma | RESET forms part of a holistic support response for current armed forces members and those transitioning out to veteran status in the Northeast. The programme delivers an educational programme of preventive measures and peer support for addiction and problematic behaviours (predominately alcohol and gambling) across the tri services. | England/North East | 23,367.00 |
| 2026 | Hidden Voices | Covenant Fund | West Mercia Women's Aid | Penelope: Children and Young People | Creating a military specialist Children and Young People’s Worker within the Penelope Project will amplify hidden voices by providing early intervention, prevention and therapeutic mental health support. The role addresses the unique challenges of military life, ensuring accessible, trauma-informed wellbeing support for children affected by domestic abuse. | England/West Midlands | 24,988.00 |
| 2026 | Hidden Voices | Covenant Fund | Combat Stress | Veterans’ Family Storybook | A professionally designed Family Workbook that helps veterans and children aged 6–10 strengthen their relationship, understand the impact of military trauma and communicate openly. This story-based resource supports early intervention helping families explore emotions together, improve relationships and reassure children that they are safe and loved. | UK-wide | 24,215.00 |
| 2026 | Hidden Voices | Covenant Fund | Brooke House Health and Wellbeing Centre | Healing Through Words | Healing through Words is a seven-week creative wellbeing programme supporting underrepresented voices in the armed forces, especially abuse survivors. Using trauma- informed creative writing and reflective activities, it fosters safety, resilience, and belonging. Legacy resources, peer mentoring, and workshops will guide organisations towards equitable, survivor-centred mental health practices. | Northern Ireland | 24,350.00 |
| 2026 | Hidden Voices - supplementary programme | Covenant Fund | Carers Plus Yorkshire Ltd | Caring with Active Confidence ‘supplementary’ | This project offers an online Caring with Confidence course for carers unable to attend in person due to their caring role. Through connecting online, these carers who can be the most isolated will learn how to support their health and wellbeing as carers whilst meeting other carers online for peer support. | England/North East | 22,270.00 |
| 2026 | Hidden Voices - supplementary programme | Covenant Fund | Disability Stockport | Cheshire Ex-Forces Autism Social Group 'Supplementary' | Delivering monthly inclusive outdoor activity days at the Anderton Centre, offering adapted nature-based experiences such as archery, bushcraft and water activities. These sessions provide structured sensory regulation, confidence building and social connection, enhancing wellbeing for neurodivergent veterans and complementing the existing autism informed social group with meaningful, therapeutic outdoor engagement. | England/North West | 25,000.00 |
| 2026 | Hidden Voices - supplementary programme | Covenant Fund | HWLincs | Hidden UK Military voices - Supplementary | Hidden UK Miliary Voices will provide face-to-face support for armed forces personnel and families through informal sessions, while embedding the resources developed during the initial project and linking military and civilian health and social care services to improve access, awareness, and use of mental health and wellbeing support. | England/East | 24,350.00 |
| 2026 | Hidden Voices - supplementary programme | Covenant Fund | LimeCulture | Strengthening Military Sexual Violence Support -Supplementary | This project will review findings from workshops and engagement activities to identify gaps and challenges in internal military responses to MST, engage key stakeholders through online interviews & focus groups to co-develop recommendations for internal support models, and establish a sustainable ISVA network to strengthen community-based support for military communities. | UK-wide | 25,000.00 |
| 2026 | Hidden Voices - supplementary programme | Covenant Fund | Rees Foundation | From Care to Command ‘Supplementary’ | From Care to Command will provide in-person meet-ups, a wellbeing retreat, and themed online peer sessions for Care Leavers connected to the armed forces community, promoting wellbeing, resilience, and connection through shared experiences in trauma-informed spaces while creating a strong sense of belonging for this seldom-heard, vulnerable group. | UK-wide | 23,881.00 |
| 2026 | Hidden Voices - supplementary programme | Covenant Fund | Salute Her UK | Rise and Rebuild - Supplementary | The supplementary activity will empower women veterans to present their comics through storytelling and spoken word. By teaching public speaking skills, participants gain confidence to share their journeys, challenge stereotypes, and inspire audiences, ensuring their creative voices resonate widely and leave a lasting community legacy. | UK-wide | 25,000.00 |
| 2026 | Hidden Voices - supplementary programme | Covenant Fund | Defence Medical Welfare Service (DMWS) | Support for Veterans’ Children London Supplementary | DMWS, with external evaluators, will assess the social value change impact of DMWS Welfare support for the armed forces Community with physical, mental and welfare challenges. With an initial focus on veterans’ families in London with complex challenges, the evaluation will provide insights and learning to support development and sustainability. | England/London | 25,000.00 |
| 2026 | Hidden Voices - supplementary programme | Covenant Fund | Wigan Athletic FC Community Trust | Positive Futures - Supplementary | This supplementary activity will fund accredited employability support for early service leavers who cannot access ELCAS funding and also for those who have struggled to secure employment since transitioning. Delivered by veteran-owned Salamanca, it provides job-ready qualifications, removes financial barriers, enhances confidence and creates clear progression pathways into meaningful work. | England/North West | 25,000.00 |
