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December 8, 2025

As the Covenant Fund starts its second decade, what advice would I give it? 

In ten short years, the Armed Forces Covenant Fund has distributed over £100 million through 4,000 grants, reaching every nation and region of the UK.

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December 8, 2025

How Should the Covenant Fund Navigate Its Teenage Years? 

As someone who has spent years researching military-connected children and young people, and working alongside Covenant Fund-backed programmes, I’ve developed both ground-level intimacy and strategic distance with this work.

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December 8, 2025

From Service Child to Future Educator: Why Military Experience Belongs in Every Classroom 

Growing up as a service child in the UK to me meant living a life shaped by separation, but also meant resilience and quiet strength.

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December 8, 2025

How can the fund’s work continue to build the evidence base on what works, and what’s needed for the armed forces community?   

Professor Alan Finnegan was appointed as the Principal Investigator to evaluate the £4M invested by the AFCFT’s Tackling Serious Stress project.

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December 8, 2025

How can a relatively small fund maximise impact in its next decade

FiMT’s mission is to enable ex-Service personnel and their families to make a successful and sustainable transition to civilian life.

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December 8, 2025

How should the Covenant Fund navigate its teenage years?

Our Chair Hans Pung and CEO, Anna Wright put their brains together to ask: How should the Covenant Fund navigate its teenage years?

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December 8, 2025

Advice for the Armed Forces Covenant Fund Trust in its second decade – from a health perspective –

As the Covenant Fund enters its second decade, our advice would be to lean into its
unique position as a trusted bridge between the Armed Forces community, the NHS,
and the third sector.

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December 8, 2025

Amanda Struby, Armed Forces Covenant Team Leader and Deputy Head of Armed Forces People Support, Ministry of Defence  

Highlights from Amanda’s interview with Anna Wright, our CEO, reflecting on the Covenant Fund’s first decade of work.

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March 25, 2025

Practical and Emotional Support for Serving Families On the Move

Home-Start Richmondshire, will be delivering the project Settling into Catterick aimed at providing practical and emotional support to families relocating to Catterick garrison.

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December 4, 2024

Hidden Voices Programme – webinar

In December 2024, the Armed Forces Covenant Fund Trust hosted a Lunch & Learn webinar focusing on the new Hidden Voices programme

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