Awards made
| Year awarded | Programme | Funder | Organisation name | Project title | Project description | Project location | Grant amount |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Removing Barriers to Family Life | Covenant Fund | Active Plus | Family Matters | The group will support families and carers of veterans to become more linked to each other and to their wider community, to identify and overcome barriers to constructive family life and to develop strategies to build positive relationships, resilience and emotional wellbeing; reducing conflict and isolation and managing risk | England/South West | 99,760.00 |
| 2020 | Removing Barriers to Family Life | Covenant Fund | Age UK Herefordshire & Worcestershire | Veteran and Carer Wellcheck | The project will support carers of older veterans through identifying issues and concerns, especially social, emotional, practical and economic. It will be delivered via telephone triage, guided conversations and through working closely with their existing services/other organisations to support and enable the families and carers of veterans to enjoy later life. | England/West Midlands | 78,972.00 |
| 2020 | Removing Barriers to Family Life | Covenant Fund | Age UK Lancashire | Forces & Families Service | The project will offer support to non-widowed families and carers of veterans 50+. They will develop their current provision, ensuring families and carers have access to support and activities that will improve their wellbeing. | England/North West | 99,951.00 |
| 2020 | Removing Barriers to Family Life | Covenant Fund | Age UK Portsmouth | SAS or Special Advice Service | The project will offer a range of support for veterans; and their families and carers to support independence and wellbeing; and help reduce loneliness and isolation. | England/South East | 76,479.00 |
| 2020 | Removing Barriers to Family Life | Covenant Fund | Dame Agnes Westons Royal Charity for the Naval Service | Aggie's Community Waves | The project will provide support and community activity for naval families in the wider Portsmouth region. In collaboration with partner organisations, the charity will facilitate social events to encourage engagement and community cohesion, information sharing and opportunities for self-improvement. | England/South East | 100,000.00 |
| 2020 | Removing Barriers to Family Life | Covenant Fund | Army Training Centre Pirbright | Creating positive outcomes through play | The group will support Service children and families; reducing isolation, loneliness and improving community integration, enabling children, including those with additional support needs, to access positive opportunities | England/South East | 74,140.00 |
| 2020 | Removing Barriers to Family Life | Covenant Fund | Army Welfare Service Thiepval Barracks | HEROS Ice-Hockey Programme | The group will bring children from a range of backgrounds together, in a post-conflict society, which still needs to make significant progress. In so doing, they will demonstrate tolerance and understanding, while also showing they are a force for good across Ireland. | Northern Ireland | 60,000.00 |
| 2020 | Removing Barriers to Family Life | Covenant Fund | British Limbless Ex-Service Men's Association | Outreach Programme for Veterans/Families: Scotland | The project will provide local fellowship activities for families, carers, widows and limbless/injured veterans in areas across Scotland, led by a new Blesma Outreach Officer. It will help reduce isolation by bringing families and Blesma members together, enabling them to develop sustainable peer-to-peer and inter-generational support networks | Scotland | 74,849.00 |
| 2020 | Removing Barriers to Family Life | Covenant Fund | The Cart Shed Charity | Young Cart Shed | The project will enable young people to identify, address and overcome a range of issues they may be facing around The Cart Shed CIC constituted 2009 deployment, transition, accessing education, friendships and social isolation. The group will use its innovative woodland programmes to work with young people and their families to develop resilience, craft and communication skills. | England/West Midlands | 35,050.00 |
| 2020 | Removing Barriers to Family Life | Covenant Fund | Carterton Family Centre | The Street Based Youth Team | The project will meet young people from Armed Forces communities where they gather on the streets and build relationships that lead to support with issues such as mental health, anxiety, deployment of a parent. They will work alongside parents and key agencies. | England/South East | 97,200.00 |
| 2020 | Removing Barriers to Family Life | Covenant Fund | Citizens Advice Hart District Ltd | Joining Forces for Families | The project will provide a free, independent and confidential advice service to dispersed Armed Forces families and to those arriving from abroad to serve. It aims to make a positive difference by helping to tackle specific challenges faced by serving personnel and their families | England/South East | 95,987.00 |
| 2020 | Removing Barriers to Family Life | Covenant Fund | Citizens Advice Rushmoor | Nepali Domestic and Sexual Abuse Project | The project will help Armed Forces and veteran families affected by domestic abuse; supporting those who are unable to access mainstream services as a result of language and/or cultural barriers. | England/South East | 90,000.00 |
| 2020 | Removing Barriers to Family Life | Covenant Fund | Communities and Nature International (CAN International) | Tackling loneliness in Gurkha veterans community | This project will tackle loneliness and isolation among the families of Gurkha veterans through organising several key initiatives, including formation of a network of families of Gurkha veterans and organisation of different social networking and befriending activities. | England/South East | 50,177.00 |
| 2020 | Removing Barriers to Family Life | Covenant Fund | CFB | Transitioning into Life in The UK for Fijian Service Families | Project delivered/partially delivered, with some funding not used | UK-wide | 169,000.00 |
| 2020 | Removing Barriers to Family Life | Covenant Fund | Cornwall Rural Community Charity (CRCC) | Veteran Carer Outreach (VCO) | The project will support 400 veterans' carers by increasing resilience, developing skills and providing emotional support. They will work with veteran carers and carers of veterans to maintain/improve their wellbeing and reduce the risks of poor physical or mental health. | England/South West | 100,000.00 |
| 2020 | Removing Barriers to Family Life | Covenant Fund | Cruse Bereavement Support | Together in Force | The project will deliver the Together in Force project, bringing families of veterans, and their carers, together and providing them with assistance to build supportive relationships by enabling them to talk about bereavement and reduce the social isolation and poor mental health it can cause. | UK-wide | 299,695.00 |
| 2020 | Removing Barriers to Family Life | Covenant Fund | Families Together Suffolk (Formerly Home-Start Mid & West Suffolk) | Heathy Parents, Healthy Families | The project will work with three military bases in Suffolk to offer a bespoke package of support given through groups and home visiting. | England/East | 85,557.00 |
| 2020 | Removing Barriers to Family Life | Covenant Fund | The Family Foundation | #FamilyConnectors | The project will offer families, spouses and carers of veterans, support to reduce isolation and loneliness. Through outreach and proactive support on the ground in Carmarthenshire and Pembrokeshire, the group will help families to reach their potential and connect in the community using digital platforms and focused employability skills training. | Wales | 81,000.00 |
| 2020 | Removing Barriers to Family Life | Covenant Fund | Finchale Training College Trading as Finchale Group | Family Force | Project delivered/partially delivered, with some funding not used | England/North East | 99,570.00 |
| 2020 | Removing Barriers to Family Life | Covenant Fund | Forces Children Scotland | Your Mind Matters Wellbeing Project | The project will work with Armed Forces children and young people to deliver person-centred wellbeing support in west Scotland. The young people involved will help to generate ideas for building community resilience and will produce digital resources that will be available nationwide. | Scotland | 303,000.00 |
| 2020 | Removing Barriers to Family Life | Covenant Fund | Forward Assist | Forward Assist: Family First | The project will deliver the Family First project, employing a project manager and family support worker to support activity delivery and assist with sessions that support the whole family in a safe and welcoming environment tailored to needs arising during the first few weeks of civilian life and beyond as part of a sustained and long-term wrap-around support service. | England/North East | 240,412.00 |
| 2020 | Removing Barriers to Family Life | Covenant Fund | Goodwin Development Trust -Armed Forces Community Hub Hull | Community Hub, Families and Carers Project | Project delivered/partially delivered, with some funding not used | England/North East | 86,500.00 |
| 2020 | Removing Barriers to Family Life | Covenant Fund | Greenwich Gurkha Ex-Servicemen Association (GGESA) | Ex-British Gurkha Bereaved Family Support | The group will directly work with Gurkha widows to reduce isolation and loneliness and help settle and integrate them into British society. | England/London | 94,680.00 |
| 2020 | Removing Barriers to Family Life | Covenant Fund | Help for Heroes | Psychological-Wellbeing for Specialist Military Units | This pilot project will deliver a bespoke psycho-educational programme of personalised courses to support the families and couples within the Specialist Military Units (SMU's) during active Service and through transition to civilian life. | England/South West | 100,000.00 |
| 2020 | Removing Barriers to Family Life | Covenant Fund | Home-Start Southern Oxfordshire | Home-Start for Serving Families | The project will support Armed Forces families with confidential one-to-one tailored support, directly in their own homes. Working across RAF Benson, Vauxhall Barracks, Shrivenham Defence Academy and Dalton Barracks, they will help reduce isolation, improve integration into the community and access to services. | England/South East | 75,105.00 |
| 2020 | Removing Barriers to Family Life | Covenant Fund | WLGA - SSCE Cymru | Supporting Service Children in Education in Wales - Regional Roles | Funding will provide four SSCE Regional School Liaison Officers (RSLO) in Wales, to work collaboratively with other organisations and offer support to schools with Service children. They will raise awareness of the experiences of Service children and embed long-lasting solutions | Wales | 338,000.00 |
| 2020 | Removing Barriers to Family Life | Covenant Fund | HQ 38 (Irish) Bde | Project Garrison Green Up | The project will establish managed, therapeutic environments to provide support to families of those serving, resettling or wounded, concentrating on those who have children with additional needs, who would benefit from programmed therapeutic horticulture. | Northern Ireland | 74,030.00 |
| 2020 | Removing Barriers to Family Life | Covenant Fund | Improving Lives Plymouth | Focus on Families and Carers | The project will raise awareness of support available for families and carers of ex-Armed Forces personnel. It will provide access to advice and information, deliver a range of social activities and workshops designed to improve their mental health and wellbeing, and reduce the damaging effects of social isolation | England/South West | 99,422.00 |
| 2020 | Removing Barriers to Family Life | Covenant Fund | Little Troopers | Little Troopers at School Project | The project will deliver a national project to provide educational resources for schools on the unique needs of military children and how they can support them daily. By giving schools access to more information; this project has potential to enable a positive change the lives of British Armed Forces children, ensuring their education is not impacted and they don’t experience disadvantage. | England/East | 85,000.00 |
| 2020 | Removing Barriers to Family Life | Covenant Fund | Liverpool Veterans HQ | Supporting Forces Families – Today & Tomorrow (SFFTT) | The group will expand their successful 'Supporting Forces Families Today & Tomorrow' project to Halton & Wirral, to support the health and wellbeing of families and carers of veterans by providing social inclusion, emotional support, advocacy, counselling and therapies, pathways referrals, parenting programmes, personal action planning, housing and more. | England/North West | 98,000.00 |
| 2020 | Removing Barriers to Family Life | Covenant Fund | Make Some Noise Limited | Upbeat Families | The group will offer upbeat sessions for Forces families with preschool children to strengthen family attachment ensuring relationship resilience and reduce isolation and loneliness through participation in creative musical activity. | England/West Midlands | 100,000.00 |
| 2020 | Removing Barriers to Family Life | Covenant Fund | Moray Council | Supporting the Forces Child in Moray (Moray's Dandelion Project) | The project will employ a team of four workers to provide social, emotional and mental wellbeing support to young people from Armed Forces families in Moray, who may be experiencing significant life events. They will provide training for school staff and work with military bases to effect policy change that supports families going forward. | Scotland | 368,181.00 |
| 2020 | Removing Barriers to Family Life | Covenant Fund | Mutual Support - Armed Forces Multiple Sclerosis Support Group | Mutual Support & Respite Weekends (twice yearly) | The project will offer residentials to bring serving personnel of all ranks, their families and carers together to share experiences, provide inclusive support and learn how to manage and live with a degenerative condition | England/East | 80,000.00 |
| 2020 | Removing Barriers to Family Life | Covenant Fund | National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children | Seeking Solutions | The project will deliver their 'Positive Pathways' service for Armed Forces families in Tidworth, offering confidential and user-led support for children and young people to help them address and overcome problems affecting their wellbeing and set their own goals for the future. | England/South West | 100,000.00 |
| 2020 | Removing Barriers to Family Life | Covenant Fund | Never Such Innocence | Voices of Armed Forces Children | The project gives young people from Armed Forces families a creative outlet. It will invite those involved to consider current conflicts and how it had impacted their lives. Activities will include poetry, art, singing and speechwriting. | UK-wide | 100,000.00 |
| 2020 | Removing Barriers to Family Life | Covenant Fund | RAF Association | Developing a Military Coworking Network | The project will create a network of co-working hubs on or near to military bases, enabling members to access a strong, professional network. The hubs will provide a portal between military and civilian communities, offering workspace and a networking community. | UK-wide | 337,000.00 |
| 2020 | Removing Barriers to Family Life | Covenant Fund | RAF Association | Supporting RAF families affected by dementia | The project will create an online platform and community to support members of the RAF family who are affected by dementia, to provide a better quality of life for people living with dementia and their carers. | UK-wide | 76,043.00 |
| 2020 | Removing Barriers to Family Life | Covenant Fund | RAF Wittering | Families Centre for Service Families | Wittering Families Centre will offer a range of services to benefit Service families. For those Service families and local community already living in Wittering, but also to support those families during Future Accommodation Model (FAM) transition of moving house, and for those dispersed and living in the surrounding area. | England/East | 86,622.00 |
| 2020 | Removing Barriers to Family Life | Covenant Fund | Reading Force | Reading Force - keeping families connected | The group will support children during significant life events including deployment, illness/injury of a parent, moving home and school, parental divorce/separation, and distance from extended family. They will help mitigate stress and separation anxiety by supporting good communication and family bonding through sharing books, chatting about them and scrapbooking. | UK-wide | 90,000.00 |
| 2020 | Removing Barriers to Family Life | Covenant Fund | The Ripple Pond | Small ripples making big waves! | The group will expand its reach, offering support more widely within the UK and to serving families in overseas garrisons; providing a community of online support to partners of serving personnel and veterans | UK-wide | 100,000.00 |
| 2020 | Removing Barriers to Family Life | Covenant Fund | Royal British Legion Industries (RBLI) | Investing in our Military Families | The project will provide spouses and partners with meaningful paid work experiences that are designed to reduce isolation, engage participation and increase skills, which will contribute to positive mental and physical health. | Scotland | 91,072.00 |
| 2020 | Removing Barriers to Family Life | Covenant Fund | Royal British Legion | Benefits Debt & Money Advice Service | The group will deliver their Benefits, Debt and Money Advice service, giving families the tools they need to understand their finances, learn how to budget and save, and to make informed choices for a secure future. | UK-wide | 100,000.00 |
| 2020 | Removing Barriers to Family Life | Covenant Fund | Service Children's Progression Alliance, University of Winchester | Helping schools help Service children | The group will scale-up an evidence-based school support framework across the UK by translating it into an easily accessible online tool, so that schools everywhere develop better support for Service children whose wellbeing and learning can suffer from the stress and disruption of mobility and separation. | UK-wide | 97,500.00 |
| 2020 | Removing Barriers to Family Life | Covenant Fund | Sheffield Mind Ltd | Keeping Families in Mind (Veteran Families). | The project will offer up to 16-weeks counselling to adult relatives of veterans across South Yorkshire, including carers; as well as support groups which encourage intergenerational networking and interaction with families of Project delivered/partially delivered, with some funding not used | England/North East | 98,980.00 |
| 2020 | Removing Barriers to Family Life | Covenant Fund | The Soldiers, Sailors, Airmen and Families Association – Forces Help | Disability Support for Forces Families | The project will provide serving military families, who have a child with a disability/additional needs, with ongoing specialist and peer support, advice and respite. They will improve their wellbeing, reduce isolation and loneliness and support and empower them to remove barriers to family life that they face daily. | UK-wide | 90,000.00 |
| 2020 | Removing Barriers to Family Life | Covenant Fund | DEFENCE MEDICAL WELFARE SERVICE (DMWS) | Families & Carers Wellbeing Support | The project will provide co-ordinated support to ex-Forces families and carers, meeting individual needs and supporting engagement in positive solutions. They'll offer an integrated pathway of support, addressing psychosocial barriers to recovery, good health and wellbeing, improving family life, building resilience, reducing isolation, and navigating through physical and mental health services and other local support | England/West Midlands | 94,196.00 |
| 2020 | Removing Barriers to Family Life | Covenant Fund | DEFENCE MEDICAL WELFARE SERVICE (DMWS) | Families & Carers Medical Welfare | The project will provide co-ordinated support to ex-Forces families and carers, meeting individual needs and supporting engagement in positive solutions. They'll develop an integrated pathway of support including addressing psychosocial barriers to recovery, good health and wellbeing, improving family life, building resilience, reducing isolation, and navigating through physical and mental health services and other local support. | England/South West | 98,808.00 |
| 2020 | Removing Barriers to Family Life | Covenant Fund | Suffolk Family Carers | Military Families - Caring as One | The project will provide a holistic approach to listening and understanding the needs of a carer and their families, including young people, in ensuring the organisation provides advice, guidance and support tailored to their needs. | England/East | 99,507.00 |
| 2020 | Removing Barriers to Family Life | Covenant Fund | TGP Cymru | Veterans Family Engagement Service | The project will help veterans' families to help build positive relationships, minimise conflict leading to family breakdown and empower them to seek specialist services when needed. | Wales | 100,000.00 |
| 2020 | Removing Barriers to Family Life | Covenant Fund | The Military Wives Choirs Foundation | Empowering Women Through Music | Funding will be used to cover the groups ongoing choir activities for two years; providing confidence and empowerment for women with a military connection | UK-wide | 95,961.00 |
| 2020 | Removing Barriers to Family Life | Covenant Fund | Oxfordshire Play Association | Armed Forces Support Project | The project will continue to deliver projects and services at both RAF Benson and Dalton Barracks over a two-year period to include; weekly stay & play sessions, fortnightly Saturdads session and an annual community play and activity day event at each location. | England/South East | 99,756.00 |
| 2020 | Removing Barriers to Family Life | Covenant Fund | The Royal Navy and Royal Marines Charity | Strengthening Families - By Your Side | The project will provide a comprehensive support service for naval dispersed families including foreign & Commonwealth families. This will include home visits, school holiday camps, teen leadership programmes and digital guidance and training resources available across the UK. They group will work in partnership with the Naval Families Federation, Home-Start UK, Relate and Kings Foundation | UK-wide | 300,000.00 |
| 2020 | Removing Barriers to Family Life | Covenant Fund | Royal Star and Garter | Family Matters | The project will provide new and extended support to families and carers of Armed Forces veterans and spouses when their loved one moves into residential care. This will follow their journey from arrival to dealing with bereavement. | England/London | 68,773.00 |
| 2020 | Removing Barriers to Family Life | Covenant Fund | The Warrior Programme | Strengthening and connecting Serving families | The project will offer transformative support to 100 families ‘held back’ in their lives. Building on Warrior's successful work with Serving families, this project will extend support to international and dispersed families through new online training and networking opportunities to reduce isolation, build resilience and create a more connected, productive life | UK-wide | 100,000.00 |
| 2020 | Removing Barriers to Family Life | Covenant Fund | Tom Harrison House | Military Families Addiction Recovery Experience (MFARE) | The project will support families of veterans with addictions to address the challenges they face in supporting the recovery of their loved ones. With education and support, families can build resilience, reduce isolation, improve mental health/wellbeing, and become a stronger family unit. | England/North West | 90,000.00 |
| 2020 | Removing Barriers to Family Life | Covenant Fund | Veterans In Crisis | Forces Family Hub | In partnership with Foundation of Light, the group will design, promote and deliver a sustained programme of dedicated sports, wellbeing and social activities for the families of veterans in Sunderland. These programmes are designed to build new connections and share challenges with like-minded people to create a much-needed peer-support network. | England/North East | 100,000.00 |
| 2020 | Removing Barriers to Family Life | Covenant Fund | Walking With the Wounded | Digital Therapy for Families & Carers | The project will provide digital therapy to carers and wider family when a person is experiencing suicidal thoughts or feelings. Easyto-use and fully compliant, the online service linking carers and adult family members to digital mental health therapists experienced in supporting military community, provides evidencebased therapies and develops resilience within the family unit. | UK-wide | 87,000.00 |
| 2020 | Removing Barriers to Family Life | Covenant Fund | The War Widows' Association of Great Britain | WW.it - War Widows in touch | The project will connect war widow/ers nationally and locally using iPads and give training to people who have been bereaved so that they can get online. The project will build an online community for people who have been bereaved | UK-wide | 80,000.00 |
| 2020 | Removing Barriers to Family Life | Covenant Fund | Woody's Lodge | Woody's Find Me A Space | The project will provide year-round outdoor spaces and activities for all members of a veterans' family with activities including woodland craft, wild camping, sensory nature lessons and outdoor gyms. | Wales | 330,000.00 |
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