Awards Made
| Year awarded | Programme | Funder | Organisation name | Project title | Project description | Project location | Grant amount | |||||
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| 2024 | OVA Major Capital | Office for Veterans Affairs | Veteran Housing Scotland | Veterans Affordable Housing Refurbishment Programme | Veteran Housing Scotland will deliver a significant refurbishment programme to improve and extend affordable housing options for veterans with disabilities in Scotland. This will prevent housing stock becoming inhabitable, deliver more safe and secure housing and wrap around support for veterans with disabilities and their families in need. | Scotland | 997,547.00 | |||||
| 2024 | OVA Major Capital | Office for Veterans Affairs | Bournemouth War Memorial Homes | BWMH Poppy Lane 2 | Construction of 4 eco-friendly, energy efficient, affordable homes on an existing site in Bournemouth. They will provide additional accommodation for veterans in need at a discounted rent, giving individuals a real chance to get back on their feet. | England/South West | 500,000.00 | |||||
| 2024 | OVA Major Capital | Office for Veterans Affairs | Royal British Legion Industries (RBLI) | RBLIs Centenary Village: 28 homes | RBLI’s Centenary Village is a mixed development of new veterans’ accommodation which began in 2017 on land RBLI owns, with full planning permission. This proposal concerns construction of Oak Crescent, 28 homes for disadvantaged veterans plus community facilities. The Crescent includes disability-adapted apartments, family homes and emergency accommodation for female veterans. | England/South East | 1,000,000.00 | |||||
| 2024 | OVA Major Capital | Office for Veterans Affairs | Hull 4 Heroes | Veterans Village | The Veterans Village will be a self-sustaining community, providing housing units, a community support hub and bespoke training opportunities. As well as community integration links to provide veterans and their families with an established local, safe, and stable community, aiding their transitional journey to civilian life. | England/North East | 500,000.00 | |||||
| 2025 | OVA Major Capital | Office for Veterans Affairs | Action Homeless | Helping Veterans Towards Home | The project will provide veterans experiencing homelessness with high quality housing, support and opportunities to build connections with the community, enabling them to prepare for and secure a permanent home. The project offers veterans stability, security and a route out of homelessness. | England/East | 295,039.00 | |||||
| 2025 | OVA Major Capital | Office for Veterans Affairs | Adferiad | Wales' Veterans Quality Housing Project | Adferiad’s ‘Wales Veterans Quality Housing Project’ will convert a former nursing home/office into 15 units: 14 self-contained flats and a bungalow for veteran households in Llandrindod Wells, Powys. The project addresses homelessness provides long-term affordable and quality housing solutions and ensures the wellbeing of marginalised veterans through tailored support services. | Wales | 1,000,000.00 | |||||
| 2025 | OVA Major Capital | Office for Veterans Affairs | Gateshead Council | Bibby House Refurbishment Programme | The project will extend the ground floor at Bibby House, shared accommodation for veterans 18-65, creating a fully accessible bedroom with ensuite facilities. Outdoor space will be transformed with new meeting area, storage and garden pod. Bedrooms upstairs will be modernised with new ensuite facilities. | England/North East | 346,628.00 | |||||
| 2025 | OVA Major Capital | Office for Veterans Affairs | Haig Housing | Morden New Development | Haig Housing will build 29 new social housing homes for veterans and their families at charitable rents, plus a replacement veterans’ community centre, on the grounds of their previous Morden headquarters. | England/London | 1,000,000.00 | |||||
| 2025 | OVA Major Capital | Office for Veterans Affairs | Isle of Wight Council | Island Homes for Veterans | The project aims to build four new one bedroomed flats for veterans in Newport on the Isle of Wight. The homes will provide permanent accommodation and be used to house veterans that are homeless or at risk of homelessness. | England/South East | 500,000.00 | |||||
| 2025 | OVA Major Capital | Office for Veterans Affairs | Launchpad | Hollyacre House: Additional Capacity | Launchpad will increase the capacity of Hollyacre House, Durham, which provides accommodation and rehabilitation support to homeless veterans. The project will create two new self-contained flats within the building. On average, homeless veterans stay for 12 months. Over an expected 25-year life, the new units will accommodate 50 homeless veterans. | England/North East | 132,986.00 | |||||
| 2025 | OVA Major Capital | Office for Veterans Affairs | QVSR | Veterans’ Accommodation and Welfare Support | Queen Victoria Seamen's Rest (QVSR) will create an additional 6 en-suite bedrooms for homeless veterans, increasing the number of units available to provide shelter and welfare for those in need at their accommodation in Poplar in London’s East End. | England/London | 500,000.00 | |||||
| 2025 | OVA Major Capital | Office for Veterans Affairs | RAFA Housing Ltd | Building Futures in Eastbourne | RAFA Housing Limited will increase the number of affordable housing units for individuals and families within the RAF veteran community by transforming the former RAF Association Eastbourne Branch Club into high-quality rented housing, to assist and empower those with a housing need to live independently. | England/South East | 492,690.00 | |||||
| 2025 | OVA Major Capital | Office for Veterans Affairs | Alabaré Christian Care and Support | Veteran Homes for the Future | Alabaré supports veterans with multiple/complex needs in Wales. This project increases capacity in Pontypridd by 83%, creating accessible, trauma-informed accommodation for those with physical, mental health, or mobility challenges. It offers a safe, high-quality environment with personalised support, life skills development, and pathways out of homelessness into lasting independence. | Wales | ||||||
| 2025 | OVA Major Capital | Office for Veterans Affairs | Highland Council | Heroes Homes in Highland | Developing a new development of amenity and wheelchair live-able bungalows within an established housing area in Inverness. The properties will be allocated to those in greatest need and will be set social rent levels. | Scotland | ||||||
| 2025 | OVA Major Capital | Office for Veterans Affairs | Tai Tarian | Cymrodyr Ynghyd | The project is a partnership combining the expertise of Tai Tarian and Bulldogs Gym a community charity which works with veterans. It will provide six units of accommodation to veterans requiring intermediate transitional housing before moving on to permanent accommodation. | Wales | ||||||
| 2025 | OVA Major Capital | Office for Veterans Affairs | The VC Gallery | Pembrokeshire VC Veterans’ Village | The VC Gallery will create affordable, sustainable housing for veterans in Pembrokeshire, tackling homelessness and offering longterm support. With veteran input, the development will feature energyefficient homes and access to mental health, employment, and social services—supporting community integration and empowering independent, stable lives. | Wales | ||||||
| 2025 | OVA Major Capital | Office for Veterans Affairs | Woody's Lodge | Homefront Haven | The project will design and create four sustainable living units in a rural Welsh cottage, part of a holistic initiative to combat veterans’ homelessness. The 11-acre site will also double as a training facility, enhancing employability prospects for resident veterans, fostering independence, and rebuilding lives. | Wales | ||||||
| 2025 | OVA Major Capital | Office for Veterans Affairs | Bulldogs Boxing and Community Activities | Bulldogs Veterans Housing | The Bulldogs Veterans Housing project will offer emergency/transitional accommodation, a community hub with dedicated wrap-around support and training opportunities to support veterans integrating into the community. | Wales | ||||||
| 2025 | OVA Major Capital | Office for Veterans Affairs | Lest We Forget Association | Lest We Forget Association Homes | This project will build new quality affordable homes for veterans and their families to rent, with a future option to purchase under a shared ownership agreement, enabling veterans on the housing market in the South West. | England/South West | ||||||
| 2025 | OVA Major Capital | Office for Veterans Affairs | Scottish Veterans Residences (SVR) | Veterans' Fire Door Replacement Programme | Scottish Veterans Residences' project is for the essential replacement and remedial maintenance of 320 designated fire door sets at the charity's sites in Edinburgh and Dundee, occupied by 150 veterans (129 who are classed as homeless), to ensure complete fire safety compliance for the next decade and more. | Scotland | ||||||
| 2025 | OVA Major Capital | Office for Veterans Affairs | The Sir Oswald Stoll Foundation | Enhanced Support for Veterans | The King's Road Park development houses veterans who would otherwise be homeless. This development was built for general needs social housing and the project will reformat and develop facilities to open access to veterans with complex support needs both physical and mental health needs. | England/London | ||||||
| 2025 | OVA Major Capital - supplementary programme | Office for Veterans Affairs | Action Homeless | Homewards Helping Veterans Towards Home Supplementary | Action Homeless will use the supplementary funding to create one additional unit of accommodation for veterans experiencing homelessness, bringing their total to six. The project will provide good quality homes to veterans who'll receive support and opportunities to connect with peers, whilst Action Homeless work alongside them to prepare for and secure a permanent tenancy. | 19,928.00 | ||||||
| 2025 | OVA Major Capital - supplementary programme | Office for Veterans Affairs | Gateshead Council | Bibby House Refurbishment Programme Supplementary | Supplementary funding will enhance the original project providing a furnished garden room for one-to-one therapy and group work sessions. A refurbished kitchen, additional storage facilities for food items, communal outdoor seating, barbecue equipment will bring veterans together providing a good quality environment to cook and share meals. | 50,373.00 | ||||||
| 2025 | OVA Major Capital - supplementary programme | Office for Veterans Affairs | Isle of Wight Council | Island Homes for Veterans Supplementary | The project will create shared space for use by residents of New Street housing project, other veterans, visitors, support agencies. This facility will provide additional indoor and outdoor space to meet together, receive support from professionals, and for visits from family and friends whilst maintaining the privacy of their own space. | 60,000.00 | ||||||
| 2025 | OVA Major Capital - supplementary programme | Office for Veterans Affairs | Launchpad | Hollyacre House: Additional Capacity Supplementary | Launchpad will make long-term, sustainable improvements to Hollyacre House’s communal areas by installing a photovoltaic energy system. This will provide low-cost, carbon-neutral energy ensuring the communal areas are warm, well-lit and comfortable for the next 25 years. More than 400 homeless veterans with poor mental and/or physical health will benefit. | 59,520.00 | ||||||
| 2025 | OVA Major Capital - supplementary programme | Office for Veterans Affairs | Royal British Legion Industries | RBLIs Centenary Village 7819 HMO Supplementary | The project will deliver an entirely new communal area in a 200m sq garden. The space is at the back of two brand new HMO homes and will benefit veterans who are in transitional housing overcoming street homelessness, including mental health, physical health, and injury. | 52,000.00 | ||||||
| 2025 | OVA Major Capital - supplementary programme | Office for Veterans Affairs | Adferiad | Wales’ Veterans Quality Housing Project *Supplementary | This supplementary project will enhance the veteran housing provision through installation of solar panels, battery, and air source heat pumps, to generate renewable power for heat and light to communal areas. This will improve affordability for veterans by reducing overheads and improving overall environmental sustainability of the facility for years to come. | Wales | 60,000.00 | |||||
| 2025 | OVA Major Capital - supplementary programme | Office for Veterans Affairs | QVSR | Veterans' Accommodation and Welfare Support Supplementary | Supplementary Funding will enable QVSR (Queen Victoria Seafarers Rest) to create a further two en-suite bedrooms for homeless veterans, increasing the number of units available to provide shelter and welfare support for homeless ex-servicemen at their accommodation in Poplar in London’s East End. | 60,000.00 | ||||||
| 2025 | OVA Major Capital - supplementary programme | Office for Veterans Affairs | Bournemouth War Memorial Homes | BWMH Poppy Lane 2 Supplementary | The project will install EV chargers for tenants with electric/mobility cars and no driveways to charge on site. Additional garden furniture and enhanced landscaping will create quiet areas for tenants to meet or spend time alone. | 60,000.00 | ||||||
| 2025 | OVA Major Capital - supplementary programme | Office for Veterans Affairs | Haig Housing | Morden New Development Supplementary | This project will fit out and equip fully the new Veterans Community Centre being built as an intrinsic part of Haig Housing’s original Major Capital Grant application. This will include external sustainable furniture, internal furniture, blinds, floor coverings, AV equipment and installation and kitchen equipment and utensils | 60,000.00 | ||||||
| 2025 | OVA Major Capital - supplementary programme | Office for Veterans Affairs | Veterans Housing Scotland | Veteran Affordable Housing Refurbishment Programme Supplementary | VHS will deliver an additional refurbishment programme to improve and extend affordable housing options for veterans with disabilities in Scotland. This will prevent housing stock becoming inhabitable, and deliver more safe, suitable and secure housing for veterans with disabilities and their families to flourish and build a better life. | Scotland | 56,269.00 | |||||
| 2026 | OVA Major Capital | Office for Veterans Affairs | Entrain Space Trust | Entrain Space Accessibility Refurbishment Programme | Funding will enable the construction of an additional two studio apartments that support veterans with physical disabilities and who are in need of emergency accommodation, plus new disabled access for five studio flats. It will also provide a multiagency support hub for both residents and outreach support to create better joined up service delivery and increase capacity for more support services. Finally, a disability‑friendly gym to ensure the independent living and outreach veterans support model is welcoming and inclusive to those with disabilities. | England/South West | 449,442.00 | |||||
| 2026 | OVA Major Capital | Office for Veterans Affairs | Beyond the Battlefield | Overwatch | Overwatch will expand Harbour House by creating eight additional ensuite bedrooms for homeless veterans. The project will significantly increase the number of safe, warm and supported nights available and provide high quality, accommodation that helps veterans move away from homelessness and begin rebuilding their lives. | Northern Ireland | 500,000.00 | |||||
| 2026 | OVA Major Capital | Office for Veterans Affairs | East Durham Veterans Trust | Veterans Housing Transition Project | The Veterans Housing Transition Project will renovate two flats to provide safe, supported accommodation for veterans facing homelessness or transitioning from military to civilian life. Delivered by East Durham Veterans Trust, the project offers expert, wraparound support to help veterans reintegrate and secure long-term housing and stability. | England/North East | 75,000.00 | |||||
| 2026 | OVA Major Capital | Office for Veterans Affairs | East Sussex Veterans Hub | Taking Cover Initiative | This project will establish a dedicated supported housing centre for homeless veterans in Hastings and East Sussex, offering 14 flats with 24 beds and wraparound support for complex needs. Integrated with a veterans’ café and hub, the facility enables a stable transition to independent living across East Sussex. | England/South East | 500,000.00 | |||||
| 2026 | OVA Major Capital | Office for Veterans Affairs | King Edward VI Almshouses | Project Crocus | Project Crocus will provide 16 affordable, accessible, and eco-friendly homes in Saffron Walden for those facing homelessness. Working with the Royal British Legion, Carver Barracks, and UDC, the organisation will identify veterans in need, preventing homelessness/rough sleeping and empowering them. All veterans who apply will be shortlisted, interviewed, and fully considered. | England/East | 500,000.00 | |||||
| 2026 | OVA Major Capital | Office for Veterans Affairs | Northumberland County Council | Northumberland Veterans Transitional Accommodation | The project will transform a block of flats into eight high-quality, accessible homes for veterans facing homelessness, complete with communal space, office facilities, and community garden. This pilot delivers wraparound support including benefits advice, employability training, and wellbeing services to create a proven model for future veteran-led transitional housing programmes. | England/North East | 604,008.00 | |||||
| 2026 | OVA Major Capital | Office for Veterans Affairs | Royal British Veterans Enterprise | Building Futures: Quality Veteran Housing | The project will achieve urgent refurbishment of transitional homes in the UK’s largest intergenerational veterans’ village, enabling increased momentum of homeless veterans being housed. It will convert a semi-detached and derelict property into an accessible house of multiple occupancy to increase capacity and install solar panels on 20 homes to improve housing lifespan and affordability. | England/South East | 500,000.00 | |||||
| 2026 | OVA Major Capital | Office for Veterans Affairs | SHAPE-UK LTD | SHAPE Veterans Community Integration Programme | Premises will be converted into supported living space incorporating 12 flats (5 disability compliant) for mid-to-long-term occupancy, helping veterans transition into civilian-life. In-house services will provide cooked meals, a communal kitchen, communal living, leisure space, and community welfare services, including support with bills, health matters, employment, and other essential needs. | England/North West | 431,200.00 | |||||
| 2026 | OVA Major Capital | Office for Veterans Affairs | The Sir Oswald Stoll Foundation | Improved Access to Veteran Facilities | Stoll will provide enhanced facilities for all vulnerable veterans and their families at Centenary Lodge. They will expand their parking spaces to include new disability areas and electric vehicle charging points. Improved access to parking will increase veteran’s independence and encourage homeless veterans to seek supported accommodation at Centenary Lodge. | England/London | 141,100.00 | |||||
| 2026 | OVA Major Capital | Office for Veterans Affairs | Stroud District Council | Refurbishing Major Voids for Veterans | This project will significantly reduce veteran homelessness in the Stroud District by refurbishing six vacant Council-owned properties into high-quality affordable homes for ex-service personnel. These homes will provide safe, stable accommodation for veterans who are homeless or at risk of homelessness, helping them rebuild their lives in a supportive environment. | England/South West | 225,000.00 | |||||
| 2026 | OVA Major Capital | Office for Veterans Affairs | Veteran Housing Scotland | Veterans Affordable Housing Refurbishment Programme | Veterans Housing Scotland will deliver a significant refurbishment programme to improve affordable housing for veterans with disabilities in Scotland. This will prevent housing stock becoming uninhabitable, deliver more safe and secure housing. Benficiaries will recieve specialist wrap around support for veterans with disabilities and their families to build better lives. | Scotland | 507,254.00 | |||||
| 2026 | OVA Major Capital - supplementary programme | Office for Veterans Affairs | Alabare | Veterans Homes for the Future Supplementary | Creation of a fully accessible communal kitchen, dining hub and outdoor decking, and a therapeutic garden workshop | Wales | 72,768.00 | |||||
| 2026 | OVA Major Capital - supplementary programme | Office for Veterans Affairs | Beyond the Battlefield | OVERWATCH Supplementary | Creation of therapeutic outdoor and communal environments at Harbour House - a healing garden, veterans' community courtyard and enhanced wellbeing spaces. | Northern Ireland | 75,000.00 | |||||
| 2026 | OVA Major Capital - supplementary programme | Office for Veterans Affairs | Bulldogs Boxing & Community Activities | Bulldogs Veterans Housing | Conversion of an unused basement into a space to further support with wellbeing and family support for veterans. | Wales | 75,000.00 | |||||
| 2026 | OVA Major Capital - supplementary programme | Office for Veterans Affairs | East Durham Veterans Trust | Veterans Housing Transition Project | Refurbishment of communal areas and additional disabled access, including disabled toilets and enhancing the facilities available to the residents of the programme. | England/North East | 60,000.00 | |||||
| 2026 | OVA Major Capital - supplementary programme | Office for Veterans Affairs | East Sussex Veterans Hub | Taking Cover Initiative Supplementary | Increasing supported accommodation by six refurbished, self-contained units, annexed within 500 metres of the centre, and enabling improvements to support facilities including a new kitchen for the veterans' café, a redesigned and refurbished activities room, counselling room, and outdoor communal areas. | England/South East | 114,000 | |||||
| 2026 | OVA Major Capital - supplementary programme | Office for Veterans Affairs | King Edward VI Almshouses | Project Crocus Supplementary | Landscaping of the grounds surrounding Project Crocus’ 16 new homes, creating accessible seating areas, green space, and communal areas. | England/East of England | 75,000.00 | |||||
| 2026 | OVA Major Capital - supplementary programme | Office for Veterans Affairs | Lest We Forget Association | Lest We Forget Association Homes -Supplementary | rovision of shorter-term accommodation to those who find themselves either at risk of homelessness or temporarily homeless - in addition to housing families in our new build homes project - and facilitation of communal facilities on all our sites. | England/South West | 115,000.00 | |||||
| 2026 | OVA Major Capital - supplementary programme | Office for Veterans Affairs | Northumberland County Council | Northumberland Veterans Transitional Accommodation | Enhancement of shared spaces including high-quality digital connectivity to support one-to-one , group sessions and remote access; a summer house to provide meeting, employment and counselling spaces; and an extension improving flexible communal use. | England/North East | 112,000.00 | |||||
| 2026 | OVA Major Capital - supplementary programme | Office for Veterans Affairs | Royal British Veterans Enterprise | Building Futures: Quality Veteran Housing | Creation of a therapeutic garden for homeless veterans living in RBVE’s new transitional home fit for veterans - with a landscaped, wheelchair-accessible outdoor communal space | England/South East | 61,650.00 | |||||
| 2026 | OVA Major Capital - supplementary programme | Office for Veterans Affairs | SHAPE-UK | SHAPE Veterans Community Integration Programme -Supplementary. | Creation of two additional, accessible, self-contained living units and extending communal facilities, including larger kitchen, dining and wellbeing spaces - increasing capacity and accessibility, and providing enhanced therapeutic and social spaces | England/North West | 115,000 | |||||
| 2026 | OVA Major Capital - supplementary programme | Office for Veterans Affairs | The Sir Oswald Stoll Foundation | Enhanced Support for Veterans (Supplementary) | Provision of a fully-functioning, commercial kitchen to provide veterans events/activities and development and kit-out of 'unit E' in Duchess of Edinburgh House (renamed Memorial Garden Room by veterans) for use for and by veterans to host a range of events and activities | England/London | 115,000 | |||||
| 2026 | OVA Major Capital - supplementary programme | Office for Veterans Affairs | The VC Gallery | Pembrokeshire VC Veterans’ Village | Creation of an accessible, therapeutic wellbeing environment for veterans, including improved accessible entrances to the hub, a dedicated counselling and wellbeing pod, and a therapeutic garden. Capital works will include site preparation, utilities, accessible doors, garden access, landscaping and facilities supporting confidential, trauma-informed, person-centred care. | Wales | 75,000.00 | |||||
| 2026 | OVA Major Capital - supplementary programme | Office for Veterans Affairs | Veteran Housing Scotland | Veterans Affordable Housing Refurbishment Programme; Supplementary | Delivery of an additional refurbishment programme to improve and extend affordable housing options for disabilities in Scotland, preventing housing stock from becoming inhabitable and delivering more safe, suitable and secure housing for veterans with disabilities and their families | Scotland | 75,000 | |||||
| 2026 | OVA Major Capital - supplementary programme | Office for Veterans Affairs | Woody's Lodge | Homefront Haven 'Supplementary' | Design and refurbishment of a veterans community hub, complemented by accessible outdoor wellbeing spaces with sensory gardens, reflection areas and social seating. Accessible furnishings and therapeutic community areas. | Wales | 74,950.00 |
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