£4.5 million awarded to support veterans’ housing
19 organisations will share £4.5 million thanks to funding from the Office for Veterans’ Affairs’ Veterans’ Capital Housing Fund.
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Categories: Programme news, Veterans
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Categories: Current Serving, Forces families, Funds, New programmes, Programme news, Uncategorized
Supporting those who support our service personnel.
We’ve supported a further 17 projects in the latest funding round, worth almost £1 million to projects that aim to improve the overall provision of support available to partners of serving personnel.
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Categories: Armed Forces Covenant Fund, Current Serving, Forces families, Programme news
Latest funding helps change the narrative for servicewomen
From ill-fitting uniform to availability of sanitary products; a lack of recognition of the role many servicewomen play as main caregiver to their family, to a lack of understanding of the symptoms of menopause. Applications to our Service Women: Seen & Heard programme made it clear that change is needed.
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Categories: Armed Forces Covenant Fund, Consultation, Forces families, New programmes, Programme news, Projects we've funded
Empowering Bereaved Armed Forces Families: Transforming Mental health Support Through Partnership
We’ve awarded nearly £2 million to Defence Medical Welfare Service to deliver targeted support – including counselling, emotional and practical care – to military families who’ve lost loved ones during or connected to service.
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Categories: Current Serving, Forces families, Funds, Programme news, Uncategorized
Why full time and extended early childcare matters for military families
It’s often said that it takes a village to raise a child – but for many families in the armed forces, that village can feel thousands of miles away.
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Categories: Armed Forces Covenant Fund, Programme news
Six projects with one goal – to tackle domestic abuse in forces communities
We’ve funded another six projects under our Free from Fear programme, worth a total of more than three quarters of a million pounds, to further strengthen much-needed support to victim-survivors of domestic abuse in armed forces communities.
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Categories: Armed Forces Covenant Fund, Carers and Families, Forces families, Programme news, Veterans
Why the Family Focus programme matters so deeply
Caring for a loved one through injury or illness is never easy. It can reshape your daily life, your relationships, and your sense of self. Our Family Focus programme helps put the spotlight back on you and other family members, ensuring you are seen, heard, and valued.
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Investing in Their Future: Over £350,000 Awarded to Support Early Years Services for Children from Armed Forces Families
We’ve awarded over £350,000 to 11 projects that will expand childcare capacity, enhance staff development through targeted training, and create shared resources to establish collaborative networks, ensuring the needs of service children are addressed.
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Here’s to three P’s
Marketers among you, this is not a piece about product, price and promotion. It’s about Places, Pathways and People: or more specifically, the Veterans People, Pathways and Places programme.
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Categories: Armed Forces Covenant Fund, Carers and Families, Current Serving, Forces families, Impact, Programme news, Projects we've funded
“It’s just like a darkness. As soon as they’ve gone, there’s just nothing…”
In March this year, we awarded £368,500 to Royal Navy & Royal Marines Charity (RNRMC) to support submariner families in the West of Scotland. Forming part of our Apart, Not Alone portfolio, funding will enable RNRMC to bring organisations together to improve mental health and wellbeing – fostering community connection and enhancing social support.
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