News

Type: External News

Categories: Projects we've funded, Veterans

May 24, 2023

Veteran Celebrates 100th Birthday at Wrexham Maelor Hospital

We were delighted to hear that Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board’s (BCUHB) Armed Forces Lead, Zoe Roberts recently had the pleasure of sharing veteran inpatient Mr Steven Harvey’s 100th Birthday celebrations in their ‘Veteran Aware’ East Acute Hospital Wrexham Maelor.

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Type: News

Categories: Projects we've funded, Veterans

May 17, 2023

Mental Health Awareness Week – tackling veteran suicide

In March this year, we held a webinar to discuss the progress and impact of our One Is Too Many programme. We heard from four funded organisations, who each shared updates on the work they are doing to tackle the challenging issue of veteran suicide.

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Type: External News

Categories: Uncategorized, Veterans

May 11, 2023

Trust funded project meets US First Lady

We were delighted to learn The Fighting Chance had recently welcomed US First Lady Jill Biden and Akshata Murty (wife of the Prime Minister) along to a boxing session earlier this month.

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Type: News

Categories: Carers and Families, Projects we've funded, Veterans

April 26, 2023

Supporting Armed Forces in Acute Hospital Settings – Chester Roadshow

The Trust recently invited Armed Forces Advocates along with NHS representatives, organisations and charities working within the Armed Forces network and stakeholders to our first ‘Supporting Armed Forces in Acute hospital Settings’ roadshow event in the beautiful City of Chester.

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Type: News

Categories: Force For Change, Programme news, Projects we've funded, Uncategorized

March 29, 2023

Over £400,000 awarded in the latest round of Force For Change

We are delighted to have awarded grants totalling more than £400,000 to 42 outstanding projects in the latest round of our popular Force for Change programme, which supports community projects that reduce isolation and promote integration in local Armed Forces communities.

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Type: News

Categories: Forces families, Funds, New programmes

March 22, 2023

Armed Forces Families Fund supports 84 projects in latest round of awards

We’re excited to announce a series of grants awards made under the Armed Forces Families Fund across three grant programmes supporting Forces families across the UK.

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Type: News

Categories: Carers and Families, Forces families, Funds, Programme news, Projects we've funded, Reaching and Supporting, Veterans

March 20, 2023

Targeted support from 38 new awards under the Reaching and Supporting Armed Forces Communities programme

The Trust is delighted to announce that we have awarded a further £3.4 million to targeted projects to deliver real change within Armed Forces communities.

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Type: News

Categories: Programme news

March 16, 2023

Positive change on the horizon as Trust awards almost £3M to 10 transformational projects

In the first round of our Transformational Grants programme, we are delighted to have awarded more than £2.9 million to 10 inspiring projects across the UK.

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Type: Case Study

Categories: Projects we've funded, Uncategorized, Veterans, Veterans' mental health and wellbeing

March 8, 2023

One Is Too Many Webinar: Support, Inform, Reach Out

Our latest webinar – Veteran Suicide: One Is Too Many – provided a valuable opportunity to showcase the key learning and progress made in our One is Too Many programme.

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Type: News

Categories: Carers and Families, Programme news, Projects we've funded, PTSD, Uncategorized, Veterans, Veterans' mental health and wellbeing

February 21, 2023

Veteran Suicide: One Is Too Many

Following high interest in our previous webinar events, we are happy to announce our next FREE webinar – Veteran Suicide: One Is Too Many, taking place Wednesday 1 March at 11am.

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