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Awards made
| Year awarded | Programme | Funder | Organisation name | Project title | Project description | Project location | Grant amount |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | Tackling Loneliness | Covenant Fund | Adferiad | Navigating out of isolation | The organisation will deliver a combination of direct support and help for veterans in Mid & West Wales who are isolated and alone, enabling them to access existing community, health and social care services. | Wales | 70,000.00 |
| 2021 | Tackling Loneliness | Covenant Fund | Age Scotland | Comradeship Circles | The organisation will build on existing work to connect veterans, their families and carers, aged 50 and over, with weekly group phone calls. | Scotland | 70,000.00 |
| 2021 | Tackling Loneliness | Covenant Fund | Age UK Enfield | Veterans in Enfield and Waltham Forest (VEWF) | The organisations will identify older veterans and their carers living in the London Boroughs of Enfield and Waltham Forest and facilitate social groups to enable them to make new friends, take part in a range of physical activities and link them to other activities and services available in the local area. | England/London | 70,000.00 |
| 2021 | Tackling Loneliness | Covenant Fund | Age UK Solihull | Linking Veterans Together | The organisation will provide enhanced support to older veterans, linking them through friendships and by hosting regular group activities. Alongside this, veterans will receive holistic health and wellbeing support through a dedicated Caseworker. | England/West Midlands | 70,000.00 |
| 2021 | Tackling Loneliness | Covenant Fund | Age UK Wakefield District | Connecting Forces | The organisation will support 400 older veterans experiencing significant difficulties rooted in loneliness, who aren’t engaging with traditional provision. Each veteran will create a plan to address their personal causes of loneliness and receive support to join existing clubs and services or set up new ones. | England/North East | 70,000.00 |
| 2021 | Tackling Loneliness | Covenant Fund | Age UK West Cumbria | AgeUK WC: Back from Beyond | The organisation will work collaboratively to co-ordinate remote peer support networks for aged veterans to counteract the causes and effects of isolation. In time, this will lead to a peer-led activities programme. | England/North West | 70,000.00 |
| 2021 | Tackling Loneliness | Covenant Fund | Age UK Wolverhampton | Camaraderie in the Community | The organisation will promote friendship and support extended social networks amongst the older veteran community in Wolverhampton. They will increase access to new ways of connecting in a digital world and reduce feelings of loneliness by striking up a good old-fashioned chat! | England/West Midlands | 70,000.00 |
| 2021 | Tackling Loneliness | Covenant Fund | Age Well East | Generating Friendship – bridging the gap | The organisation will meet a local need for veteran befriending with a special focus of reaching socially isolated veterans with dementia, and their family carers. | England/East | 70,000.00 |
| 2021 | Tackling Loneliness | Covenant Fund | Battling On CIC | Stand Easy | The organisation will support veterans through a range of outdoor activities, rural craft skills and volunteering, to help them develop coping strategies and build emotional resilience whilst creating support friendships and networks. | England/South West | 70,000.00 |
| 2021 | Tackling Loneliness | Covenant Fund | Bridgend Carers Centre | Bridgend Carers Armed Forces Project | The Centre will extend its reach to identify carers in the Armed Forces community, both veterans and those in Service. They will support carers to connect with others providing an engaging range of activities to support community connections and reduce isolation and loneliness resulting from being an unpaid carer. | Wales | 70,000.00 |
| 2021 | Tackling Loneliness | Covenant Fund | Brooke House Health and Wellbeing Centre | Reaching Out | The organisation will establish a volunteer-led ‘Veterans Meeting Hub’, specifically for hard-to-reach veterans and their families. It will build strong social networks and nurture strong friendships through the medium of radio-controlled toys, model building, competitions, intergenerational opportunities and wellbeing workshops. | Northern Ireland | 70,000.00 |
| 2021 | Tackling Loneliness | Covenant Fund | Carers Plus Yorkshire Ltd (prev Scarborough & Ryedale Carers Resource) | Caring Together with Active Confidence | The organisation will support veteran carers and those who are caring for veterans, to build the confidence, skills and knowledge they need to 'care with confidence', to find balance in their every-day lives and live well with their caring responsibilities and commitments; helping to tackle loneliness and isolation. | England/North East | 70,000.00 |
| 2021 | Tackling Loneliness | Covenant Fund | Carterton Family Centre | “The Tea-Time Club” | The organisation, in partnership with Carterton Family Centre, will deliver a ‘Tea-Time Club’ for single parents and deployed families. The weekly session will bring together parents with shared experiences for peersupport, to share the joys and challenges of parenting and enjoy dinner and a chat whilst their children play. | England/South East | 70,000.00 |
| 2021 | Tackling Loneliness | Covenant Fund | Communities and Nature International (CAN International) | Addressing Social Isolation Among Elderly Gurkha veterans | The organisation will reduce social isolation among elderly Gurkha veterans by organising key social engagement activities including developing a veterans’ social network and an afternoon tea club. It will create the opportunities for elderly veterans to enhance social connections, share comradeship, offer/receive support and build confidence in using local provision. | England/London | 70,000.00 |
| 2021 | Tackling Loneliness | Covenant Fund | Curzon Ashton Community Foundation | Plot to Plate | The organisation, in partnership with Defence Garden Schemes and Tameside Metropolitan Borough Council, will tackle loneliness by delivering horticultural therapy to transitioning and veteran personnel across two outdoor garden sites in both formal horticultural therapy and informal gardening projects. | England/North West | 70,000.00 |
| 2021 | Tackling Loneliness | Covenant Fund | Deafness Support Network (DSN) | Veteran Sensory Aid! | Project delivered/partially delivered, with some funding not used | England/North West | 70,000.00 |
| 2021 | Tackling Loneliness | Covenant Fund | Derbyshire Addictions Advice Service | DAAS - STAND TO CONNECT Ref 4480 | The organisation will reach out to veterans and their family members in Derbyshire, who are isolated and unaware of the services available to support them. Many live in hard-to-reach areas and have a range of specific problems, including loneliness, isolation and family breakdown. | England/East | 70,000.00 |
| 2021 | Tackling Loneliness | Covenant Fund | Dig In | Bloomin Marvellous | The organisation will provide a diverse horticultural befriending experience for military veterans and their families, focusing on LGBGTQ+, young carers, broken relationships and hearts through loss, to tackle loneliness and increase good mental health and wellbeing. | England/North West | 70,000.00 |
| 2021 | Tackling Loneliness | Covenant Fund | Fighting With Pride | Developing a Network to Reduce Isolation in the LGBT+ Veterans Community | The organisation will develop a network of support for veterans from the LGBT+ community. It will focus on needs-led responses to supporting members, by identifying effective methods of engaging veterans who feel socially isolated and look to provide solutions where barriers exist. | UK-wide | 70,000.00 |
| 2021 | Tackling Loneliness | Covenant Fund | Help for Heroes | Wounded Veterans Community Recovery Hubs | The organisation will provide wounded veterans and their families a place within their local communities to access Help for Heroes holistic recovery programmes. Based across Mid and North Wales, the Hubs will tackle social isolation caused by injury and/or illness and geography. | Wales | 70,000.00 |
| 2021 | Tackling Loneliness | Covenant Fund | Home-Start Norfolk | By Your Side | The organisation will work with families living at RAF Marham to reduce isolation and loneliness, improve emotional health, build confidence, improve resilience, increase access to local services and promote community integration through peer mentoring, volunteering, and networking opportunities. | England/East | 70,000.00 |
| 2021 | Tackling Loneliness | Covenant Fund | Hull FC Community Foundation | Part of the Team | The organisation will offer targeted personal development, social and wellbeing activities for members of the Armed Forces and veterans' community, who are living with loneliness. Daily in-person and virtual sessions will improve emotional resilience and healthy lifestyles, whilst tackling determinants of loneliness, including poverty, unemployment and health conditions. | England/North East | 70,000.00 |
| 2021 | Tackling Loneliness | Covenant Fund | Invictus Games Foundation | We Are Invictus | The project will support the development of We Are Invictus; reinforcing the community of those with a shared experience of Service and recovery through a closed online platform that connects veterans to a positive network, facilitates peer-to-peer support and highlights opportunities for personal development. | UK-wide | 70,000.00 |
| 2021 | Tackling Loneliness | Covenant Fund | Kent Coast Volunteering | Folkestone Nepalese Community Centre | The organisation will employ a full time Senior Project Worker to work in partnership with the Folkestone Nepalese Veterans Community to establish a community centre and set up and run a series of activities aimed at combating loneliness for people of all ages within this community. | England/South East | 70,000.00 |
| 2021 | Tackling Loneliness | Covenant Fund | LGBT Foundation | Rainbow Oppos | The organisation will tackle loneliness specifically faced by LGBT+ forces and veteran communities who have traditionally been less likely to access support from mainstream military charities. The project will establish an enduring peer support network for those individuals, by supporting volunteer-led peer support and an interactive networking online resource. | UK-wide | 70,000.00 |
| 2021 | Tackling Loneliness | Covenant Fund | Northumbria University Newcastle | Reducing loneliness in veterans who have been treated for PTSD | The organisation will design and develop an evidencebased holistic intervention for PTSD-diagnosed veterans who are experiencing ongoing loneliness and social isolation; working with veterans that experience loneliness to deliver this project. | England/North East | 70,000.00 |
| 2021 | Tackling Loneliness | Covenant Fund | Nottingham Forest Community Trust | Forest Forces Tackling Loneliness Together (FFTLT) | The organisation will extend their engagement to bereaved, BAME and LGBTQ+ Armed Forces communities to address their isolation and loneliness needs post-pandemic. They will deliver sports, arts and creative activities, and environmental projects, to encourage engagement and creative opportunities for volunteering to aid sustainability. | England/East | 70,000.00 |
| 2021 | Tackling Loneliness | Covenant Fund | Out of the Shadows (NI) Ltd | Sunny Spells and Scattered Showers | The organisation will offer an "on the road" veteran-led programme, encouraging socially and rurally isolated individuals to take part in learning new skills and developing strong and lasting friendships to reduce loneliness and isolation while improving their physical and mental wellbeing. | Northern Ireland | 70,000.00 |
| 2021 | Tackling Loneliness | Covenant Fund | Prison Radio Association (PRA) | Radio series supporting ex-service prisoners | The organisation will work with veterans with prison experience to produce and broadcast a new series of 30 x 45-minute radio programmes. Broadcast directly into prison cells, these programmes will provide familiar voices with shared experiences, bringing companionship, reassurance, advice and access to specialist support, while building a mutually supportive community. | England/London | 70,000.00 |
| 2021 | Tackling Loneliness | Covenant Fund | RAF Association | Connections for Life | The organisation will support 500 older members of the RAF community through its reshaped befriending programme, Connections for Life. Connections for Life volunteers will tackle loneliness and isolation with friendship, by connecting like-minded people through telephone and digital initiatives, making sure that no-one is left behind. | UK-wide | 70,000.00 |
| 2021 | Tackling Loneliness | Covenant Fund | RAF Wittering | Something for everyone | The organisation will develop and provide a number of opportunities and services to support Service personnel, civil servants, contractors and Service families including young people. This will enable individuals to feel less isolated, by meeting new people, trying new skills and having the opportunity to talk and share what is going on. | England/East | 70,000.00 |
| 2021 | Tackling Loneliness | Covenant Fund | The Ripple Pond | Caring Peers - Connecting Peers | The organisation will help to build individual pathways of peer-led support to tackle the personal, practical, and social barriers that lead to that isolation. | UK-wide | 70,000.00 |
| 2021 | Tackling Loneliness | Covenant Fund | Rotherham Military Community Veterans Centre (MCVC) | Hidden Faces | The organisation will grow and develop their current service, to make it more accessible to more veterans. They will support veterans experiencing loneliness and isolation by significantly enhancing online activities and encouraging participation in group events and excursions. | England/North East | 70,000.00 |
| 2021 | Tackling Loneliness | Covenant Fund | The Royal British Legion Tandragee Branch | Tandragee Veterans Tackling Loneliness | The organisation will provide an outreach, hot food delivery service to vulnerable veterans and provide a focal point for support to include drop-in breakfast club, training in shopping online for food and essentials, mental health awareness training and social activities, such as model-making for good mental health, camping and cookery classes. | Northern Ireland | 70,000.00 |
| 2021 | Tackling Loneliness | Covenant Fund | Royal British Legion | Legion Links | The organisation will help Armed Forces carers feel less lonely and isolated because of their caring role. By connecting the military community with their shared memories and experiences, the Royal British Legion will support people to develop friendships and interests and engage more with their communities. | UK-wide | 70,000.00 |
| 2021 | Tackling Loneliness | Covenant Fund | Royal Naval Association | Project Semaphore | The organisation will provide socially isolated veterans over 65 years, with iPads and the relevant training support for them to get online and connect with the outside world. This will allow them to connect with longlost friends, Facetime family, travel the world on Google Earth, order their shopping and much more. | UK-wide | 70,000.00 |
| 2021 | Tackling Loneliness | Covenant Fund | Sale Sharks Foundation | Connect | The organisation will provide engaging sport, wellbeing and social activities daily for male and female veterans, aged 18-65 living within highly deprived areas of Greater Manchester. Sessions will prioritise engaging those not currently accessing support; offering routes into activity that empower personal development, support new social friendships and build emotional resilience. | England/North West | 70,000.00 |
| 2021 | Tackling Loneliness | Covenant Fund | Scotty's Little Soldiers | Stronger Together | The project will build and strengthen support networks and friendships amongst their beneficiaries, whilst enabling them to gain life skills such as improving emotional wellbeing, confidence, self-esteem, and resilience. The project will take place through a variety of settings, including outward bound locations; however, predominantly virtual and social platforms. | UK-wide | 70,000.00 |
| 2021 | Tackling Loneliness | Covenant Fund | The Soldiers, Sailors, Airmen and Families Association – Forces Help | SSAFA Community Connection Champions | The organisation will train dedicated volunteer Community Connection Champions to better recognise and combat loneliness more effectively, then undertake an awareness campaign to reach out and engage exceptionally isolated people within the serving community. This will culminate in the co-creation and delivery of local, COVID-19 compliant social activities reflecting their lived experiences. | UK-wide | 70,000.00 |
| 2021 | Tackling Loneliness | Covenant Fund | Special Boat Service Association | The FROGS Club - National Roll out | The organisation will provide equipment and sessional costs for physical and social activities. This will help Special Boat Service injured personnel and veterans to maintain and improve physical and mental health. This will lead to improved fitness, self-worth and socialisation to overcome loneliness. | UK-wide | 70,000.00 |
| 2021 | Tackling Loneliness | Covenant Fund | DEFENCE MEDICAL WELFARE SERVICE (DMWS) | Stronger Together – leave loneliness behind - North Devon | DMWS will target their welfare service to harder to reach members of the Armed Forces community from across rural North Devon, who are experiencing loneliness and aren’t engaged with their local community. Though welcoming all members of the Forces community, they will have a particular focus on female veterans and partners of serving Forces personnel. | England/South West | 70,000.00 |
| 2021 | Tackling Loneliness | Covenant Fund | DEFENCE MEDICAL WELFARE SERVICE (DMWS) | Stronger together - leaving loneliness behind - Herefordshire | The organisation will base their project in Herefordshire, where a recent local veterans survey identified social, rural and digital isolation as key issues. The organisation will work together with the Herefordshire Veterans Support Centre (HVSC) to maximise impact through joint working. They will provide dedicated, professional and compassionate support to those very hard to reach, lonely and isolated veterans and their families. | England/West Midlands | 70,000.00 |
| 2021 | Tackling Loneliness | Covenant Fund | DEFENCE MEDICAL WELFARE SERVICE (DMWS) | Stronger Together – leave loneliness behind | The organisation will connect with hard-to-reach veterans, partners of serving personnel, single parent serving personnel or those with challenging family situations in Northern Ireland. They will develop communication and provide Welfare Support and utilise club activities suitable for these beneficiaries. They will also seek to involve their broader beneficiaries through word of mouth and trusted closed groups. | Northern Ireland | 70,000.00 |
| 2021 | Tackling Loneliness | Covenant Fund | Outside the Wire - The Matthew Project | Armed Forces Reach Out Programme | The organisation will provide a range of group-based support and activities for veterans, serving personnel and family members in locations throughout Norfolk. Support will be focused on more rurally isolated parts of the county, particularly in areas with a lack of existing provision, to help combat loneliness and social isolation. | England/East | 70,000.00 |
| 2021 | Tackling Loneliness | Covenant Fund | The Military Wives Choirs Foundation | Women combating isolation through singing | The organisation will reach women in the military family to provide an opportunity to join a unique network of choirs that delivers skills and knowledge, confidence and empowerment through a comprehensive programme of support and development. Grant funding will fund a national and local membership recruitment campaign, in partnership with bases and organisations, to expand membership and provision to ensure the organisation is reaching all members of the female military community. | UK-wide | 70,000.00 |
| 2021 | Tackling Loneliness | Covenant Fund | The Royal Navy and Royal Marines Charity | Reaching out – By your side | The organisation will provide Telephone group calls - helping facilitate new friendships, Project Semaphore - providing iPads to veterans and SPARKO - helping connect elderly people with support and improved communications with their families all from their TV! These projects help tackle social isolation, health and wellbeing. | UK-wide | 70,000.00 |
| 2021 | Tackling Loneliness | Covenant Fund | The Venture Trust | Positive Futures | The organisation will use experiential learning techniques and cognitive behavioural approaches, delivered in communities and wilderness-based expeditions, to help ex-Service personnel tackle social isolation and loneliness by developing the confidence, motivation and core life-skills needed to progress in all aspects of life, relationships, learning and work. | Scotland | 70,000.00 |
| 2021 | Tackling Loneliness | Covenant Fund | The Warrior Programme | Building community and confidence | The organisation's outreach team and existing beneficiaries will identify female veterans, veteran families and serving families who feel isolated and withdrawn, and encourage them to join Warrior, where they will be introduced to techniques to cope better with isolation, build confidence, join new online social networks and engage with their community. | UK-wide | 70,000.00 |
| 2021 | Tackling Loneliness | Covenant Fund | Thistle Health and Wellbeing | Thistle Veterans Support: Building Connections | The organisation will support 200 veterans living with long-term physical and mental health conditions across Scotland to live a life free of isolation and loneliness. The project will work to try and ensure that a health crisis does not become a life crisis. | Scotland | 70,000.00 |
| 2021 | Tackling Loneliness | Covenant Fund | The University of Winchester | Connecting Young Adult Service Children | The organisation will develop an online space providing sustained digital support for young people aged 16-19 from Armed Forces families. This will provide connection and a sense of belonging, particularly in areas with few Service children and in schools and colleges with few targeted support mechanisms. | UK-wide | 70,000.00 |
| 2021 | Tackling Loneliness | Covenant Fund | The VC Gallery | Naafi Break and beyond! | The organisation will operate informal get-togethers with free refreshments, every weekday morning in Pembroke Dock for general chat and company with other veterans, refreshments and help to access digital platforms, with a focus on older veterans living in the local area. | Wales | 70,000.00 |
| 2021 | Tackling Loneliness | Covenant Fund | The Veterans Hub Weymouth & Portland CIC | The Veterans Hub Outreach Programme | Project delivered/partially delivered, with some funding not used | England/South West | 70,000.00 |
| 2021 | Tackling Loneliness | Covenant Fund | Veterans In Crisis | Project Connect | The organisation will customise personalised tablets for vulnerable, socially isolated and lonely veterans which will contain, in one space, links to every service they need to lead healthy and fulfilled lives. They will recruit a Volunteer Co-ordinator to manage the process and facilitate a volunteer-led befriending service, enabled by the tablets. | England/North East | 70,000.00 |
| 2021 | Tackling Loneliness | Covenant Fund | Veterans Living History Museum CIC | We Are In This Together | The organisation will confront the loneliness issues associated with the Forces community by establishing and promoting the first AFC Hub in Blackburn with Darwen. Innovative initiatives will promote military and civilian integration to tackle loneliness and ensure the organisation is accessible by creating digital platforms. | England/North West | 70,000.00 |
| 2021 | Tackling Loneliness | Covenant Fund | Veterans Outreach Support | No Veteran Gets Left Behind | The organisation will provide Welfare Officers in Portsmouth and the IOW to identify and engage with lonely and isolated veterans of all ages, enabling and encouraging them to make new friends and learn new skills in the company of like-minded people through their existing programmes. | England/South East | 70,000.00 |
| 2021 | Tackling Loneliness | Covenant Fund | Walking With the Wounded | Family Care Coordinator North East | The organisation will help lonely veterans and family members connect with their local communities through social prescription to activities, events and support. The organisation will also create a Health and Wellbeing Forum with delivery partners and like minded organisations to enhance provision and tackle issues of social isolation. | England/North East | 70,000.00 |
| 2021 | Tackling Loneliness | Covenant Fund | Walking With the Wounded | Digital and Telephone Outreach - Scotland | The organisation will develop a peer-to-peer network, to provide support and care co-ordination to isolated and lonely veterans via social prescription. The team will use a marketing campaign to identify beneficiaries and promptly respond to the veteran's needs, connected them with a range of Armed Forces, civilian third sector and statutory services. | Scotland | 70,000.00 |
| 2021 | Tackling Loneliness | Covenant Fund | Walking With the Wounded | Family Care Coordinator North West | The organisation will help lonely veterans and family members connect with their local communities through social prescription to activities, events and support. The organisation will also create a Health and Wellbeing Forum with delivery partners and likeminded organisations to enhance provision and tackle issues of social isolation. | England/North West | 70,000.00 |
| 2021 | Tackling Loneliness | Covenant Fund | Waterloo Uncovered | Battling Loneliness: From Combat to Calm | The organisation will support veterans experiencing social isolation and loneliness to build social connections and gain confidence through a specially designed military archaeology education course. This will be delivered virtually to maximise accessibility regardless of location, and carefully designed around group activities and peer support to encourage new friendships. | UK-wide | 70,000.00 |
| 2021 | Tackling Loneliness | Covenant Fund | Blind Veterans UK | National Creative Project | The organisation will use grant funding to support delivery of their remote access National Creative Project. This project has been designed to reduce loneliness within their beneficiary population by providing access to creative hobbies such as arts and crafts within the beneficiaries' own homes. | UK-wide | 70,000.00 |
| 2022 | Tackling Loneliness | Covenant Fund | Age UK Enfield | TL Continuation | The organisations will identify older veterans and their carers living in the London Boroughs of Enfield and Waltham Forest and facilitate social groups to enable them to make new friends, take part in a range of physical activities and link them to other activities and services available in the local area | England/London | 10,000.00 |
| 2022 | Tackling Loneliness | Covenant Fund | Age UK Wakefield District | TL Continuation | The organisation will support 400 older veterans experiencing significant difficulties rooted in loneliness, who aren’t engaging with traditional provision. Each veteran will create a plan to address their personal causes of loneliness and receive support to join existing clubs and services or set up new ones. | England/North East | 10,000.00 |
| 2022 | Tackling Loneliness | Covenant Fund | Age UK West Cumbria | TL Continuation | Project delivered/partially delivered, with some funding not used | England/North West | 10,000.00 |
| 2022 | Tackling Loneliness | Covenant Fund | Carers Plus Yorkshire Ltd (prev Scarborough & Ryedale Carers Resource) | TL Continuation | The organisation will support veteran carers and those who are caring for veterans, to build the confidence, skills and knowledge they need to 'care with confidence', to find balance in their every-day lives and live well with their caring responsibilities and commitments; helping to tackle loneliness and isolation. | England/North East | 10,000.00 |
| 2022 | Tackling Loneliness | Covenant Fund | Derbyshire Addictions Advice Service | TL Continuation | The organisation will reach out to veterans and their family members in Derbyshire, who are isolated and unaware of the services available to support them. Many live in hard-to-reach areas and have a range of specific problems, including loneliness, isolation and family breakdown. | England/East | 10,000.00 |
| 2022 | Tackling Loneliness | Covenant Fund | Help for Heroes | TL Continuation | The organisation will provide wounded veterans and their families a place within their local communities to access Help for Heroes holistic recovery programmes. Based across Mid and North Wales, the Hubs will tackle social isolation caused by injury and/or illness and geography | Wales | 10,000.00 |
| 2022 | Tackling Loneliness | Covenant Fund | Hull FC Community Foundation | TL Continuation | The organisation will offer targeted personal development, social and wellbeing activities for members of the Armed Forces and veterans' community, who are living with loneliness. Daily in-person and virtual sessions will improve emotional resilience and healthy lifestyles, whilst tackling determinants of loneliness, including poverty, unemployment and health conditions. | England/North East | 10,000.00 |
| 2022 | Tackling Loneliness | Covenant Fund | Kent Coast Volunteering | TL Continuation | The organisation will employ a full time Senior Project Worker to work in partnership with the Folkestone Nepalese Veterans Community to establish a community centre and set up and run a series of activities aimed at combating loneliness for people of all ages within this community | England/South East | 10,000.00 |
| 2022 | Tackling Loneliness | Covenant Fund | Nottingham Forest Community Trust | TL Continuation | The organisation will extend their engagement to bereaved, BAME and LGBTQ+ Armed Forces communities to address their isolation and loneliness needs post-pandemic. They will deliver sports, arts and creative activities, and environmental projects, to encourage engagement and creative opportunities for volunteering to aid sustainability. | England/East | 10,000.00 |
| 2022 | Tackling Loneliness | Covenant Fund | RAF Brize Norton | TL Continuation | The organisation, in partnership with Carterton Family Centre, will deliver a ‘Tea-Time Club’ for single parents and deployed families. The weekly session will bring together parents with shared experiences for peersupport, to share the joys and challenges of parenting and enjoy dinner and a chat whilst their children play | England/South East | 10,000.00 |
| 2022 | Tackling Loneliness | Covenant Fund | Sale Sharks Foundation | TL Continuation | The organisation will provide engaging sport, wellbeing and social activities daily for male and female veterans, aged 18-65 living within highly deprived areas of Greater Manchester. Sessions will prioritise engaging those not currently accessing support; offering routes into activity that empower personal development, support new social friendships and build emotional resilience | England/North West | 10,000.00 |
| 2022 | Tackling Loneliness | Covenant Fund | The Soldiers, Sailors, Airmen and Families Association – Forces Help | TL Continuation | The organisation will train dedicated volunteer Community Connection Champions to better recognise and combat loneliness more effectively, then undertake an awareness campaign to reach out and engage exceptionally isolated people within the serving community. This will culminate in the co-creation and delivery of local, COVID-19 compliant social activities reflecting their lived experiences | UK-wide | 10,000.00 |
| 2022 | Tackling Loneliness | Covenant Fund | DEFENCE MEDICAL WELFARE SERVICE (DMWS) | TL Continuation | The organisation will connect with hard-to-reach veterans, partners of serving personnel, single parent serving personnel or those with challenging family situations in Northern Ireland. They will develop communication and provide Welfare Support and utilise club activities suitable for these beneficiaries. They will also seek to involve their broader beneficiaries through word of mouth and trusted closed groups | England/West Midlands | 10,000.00 |
| 2022 | Tackling Loneliness | Covenant Fund | The Warrior Programme | TL Continuation | The organisation's outreach team and existing beneficiaries will identify female veterans, veteran families and serving families who feel isolated and withdrawn, and encourage them to join Warrior, where they will be introduced to techniques to cope better with isolation, build confidence, join new online social networks and engage with their community. | UK-wide | 10,000.00 |
| 2022 | Tackling Loneliness | Covenant Fund | Thistle Health and Wellbeing | TL Continuation | The organisation will support 200 veterans living with long-term physical and mental health conditions across Scotland to live a life free of isolation and loneliness. The project will work to try and ensure that a health crisis does not become a life crisis. | Scotland | 10,000.00 |
| 2022 | Tackling Loneliness | Covenant Fund | The VC Gallery | TL Continuation | The organisation will operate informal get -togethers with free refreshments , every weekday morning in Pembroke Dock for general chat and company with other veterans, refreshments and help to access digital platforms, with a focus on older veterans living in the local area. | Wales | 10,000.00 |
| 2022 | Tackling Loneliness | Covenant Fund | Veterans Living History Museum CIC | TL Continuation | The organisation will confront the loneliness issues associated with the Forces community by establishing and promoting the first AFC Hub in Blackburn with Darwen. Innovative initiatives will promote military and civilian integration to tackle loneliness and ensure the organisation is accessible by creating digital platforms | England/North West | 10,000.00 |
| 2022 | Tackling Loneliness | Covenant Fund | Waterloo Uncovered | TL Continuation | The organisation will support veterans experiencing social isolation and loneliness to build social connections and gain confidence through a specially designed military archaeology education course. This will be delivered virtually to maximise accessibility regardless of location, and carefully designed around group activities and peer support to encourage new friendships. | UK-wide | 10,000.00 |
