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The Afghanistan Veterans’ Fund aimed to increase capacity in services and initiatives offering supportive comradeship, engagement and wellbeing efforts for those in the Armed Forces community impacted by events in Afghanistan, and the wider Veteran community.
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This programme will award 10 significant grants to portfolios of projects, which will work regionally to develop better, more joined up lasting support for local Veterans with mental health needs.
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Jointly funded by the Covenant Fund, NHS England and NHS Improvement, this programme supports a small number of pilot projects that will try better ways of supporting Veterans and their families when they are in a hospital setting.
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The Sustaining Delivery programme provided continuation funding to enable Local Authority clusters funded under the Strengthening Delivery of the Covenant programme to conclude their work; delivering longer term changes that enable better access to local services and support for people from Armed Forces communities.
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This programme awarded grants of up to £100,000 for existing charitable projects to help charities to sustain activities and services that people from Armed Forces communities use and value.
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The NAAFI Fund makes grants to UK Armed Forces bases, located in the UK or overseas, for projects that improve the quality of life for serving personnel and serving families living on or near a Forces base or station.
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Part of the Veterans’ Mental Health and Wellbeing Fund, the One is Too Many programme awarded grants of up to £300,000 to two-year projects that aim to reduce suicide risks within vulnerable veterans in a co-ordinated and targeted way.
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The Tackling Loneliness programme addressed social isolation by targeting specific groups within the Armed Forces community who are traditionally harder to reach.
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The Forces Communities Together programme awarded small grants of up to £10,000 towards creative and engaging projects, that could be delivered under social restrictions, for people from Armed Forces communities who were isolated as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic.
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In the March 2020 budget, the Chancellor of the Exchequer awarded additional funding for veterans’ mental health. Some of this funding was made available to provide immediate support for vulnerable veterans with reduced social contact via grants to members of ASDIC, Age UK branches and eligible and invited Cobseo members.
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