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The LGBT Foundation were awarded £25,000 for their project Operation Equality: Expanding our Support. The grant has enabled the LGBT Foundation’s Wellbeing Services to expand across the LGBT+ Armed Forces community, building wider peer networks and providing affirming spaces for service users.
Hampshire Cultural Trust was awarded £20,000 for the ‘100 Thank Yous’ project, by the Trust as part of the Armed Forces Covenant Fund: Local Grants in 2018.
As well as building an understanding of the role of Gurkha soldiers in World War I in its centenary year, the project aim was also to increase cultural understanding and integration between the Nepalese community and the local community in Aldershot and the surrounding areas.
The Aged Veterans’ Fund (AVF) awarded £30 million over a five-year period to fund 19 significant grants to portfolios of projects which supported the non-core health, wellbeing and social care needs for older veterans (those born before the 1 of January 1950). The Trust worked with the University of Chester’s Westminster Centre for Research in Veterans to explore the impact of these grants, and has published an evaluative report based on data from individual project evaluations, which contains five key recommendations to improve future wellbeing for older veterans.
An example news issue summarising the work being done across the Gwent to deliver the covenant. Includes short news stories about specifics service activity, contacts, and resources.
A short document detailing the Armed Forces mental health first aid training in Hull City. Provides target groups and course objectives and aims. The training could be delivered for other areas.