The Women’s Royal Army Corps Association
The Women’s Royal Army Corps Association were awarded £300,000 under the Transformational Grants programme, to deliver long-term systemic change for female Veterans by working collaboratively across the Armed Forces charity sector.
Long term, this project aims is to increase the uptake of Veteran-focused services by female Veterans, and significantly improve outcomes for women in areas including mental/physical health, employment, housing and financial stability.
Female Veteran toolkit
The project will be delivered over three years and will focus on a number of outcomes to achieve enduring change. One of these will be the design and delivery of a Female Veterans Toolkit, which will be tri-Service and implemented across the UK.
Paula Rogers, Chief Executive at the Association, told us: “This funding allows us, in partnership with the Cobseo Female Veterans’ Cluster Group, to take forward this much needed work designing and sustaining the provision of support services for all female Veterans.
We will translate our strong understanding of the female Veteran cohort to develop a toolkit tackling the key themes of mental and physical healthcare, pensions and financial advice, care provision, housing provision, employment services, self-identification as a Veteran and combatting loneliness.
Working to deliver long term systematic change, we will ensure that the particular needs of female Veterans are firmly embedded in the design and delivery of support services, thus diluting and, in time, removing the many barriers to access now identified through published research.”
Better understanding of female Veterans’ needs
The funding the Trust has awarded, has enabled the Women’s Royal Army Corps and the Cobseo Female Veterans Cluster to work together to translate the Cluster’s developed thematic plan into action. Sustainable change is now possible. This work will ensure that female Veterans will be visible across the charitable sector and their issues and needs will be better understood with support services designed to meet those needs.
Find out more
You can find out more about the work of the Women’s Royal Army Corps Association via their website.