News

Type: News

Categories: Impact, Veterans, Veterans' mental health and wellbeing

September 14, 2023

Trust to host suicide prevention conference

Our One Is Too Many Suicide Prevention Conference takes place Wednesday 11 October and we invite those working in this field, as well as those with an interest in veterans’ mental health and wellbeing, to join us via Zoom.

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Type: News

Categories: Impact, Knowledge Network

September 13, 2023

New study highlights best practice in embedding Armed Forces Covenant at a local level

The Trust has commissioned RAND Europe to evaluate the findings from our Sustaining Delivery of the Armed Forces Covenant programme.

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Type: News

Categories: Forces families, Funds, Programme news

August 30, 2023

Support for projects to help Armed Forces families access good quality early years childcare

We are delighted to announce the latest round of The Armed Forces Families Fund: Early Years Programme which will award grants of between £5,000 and £80,000 for projects which help Armed Forces families access good quality early childhood education and childcare provision.

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Type: News

Categories: New programmes, Programme news, Veterans

July 5, 2023

Veterans’ Mobility Fund Now Open

We are pleased to announce a brand new, highly specialist grant programme – the Veterans’ Mobility Fund.

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Type: News

Categories: Projects we've funded, Veterans

July 4, 2023

New awards made to tackle veteran homelessness across the UK

The Trust is delighted to announce that we have awarded £7.2 million to nine projects under the Reducing Veteran Homelessness Programme – a targeted programme to tackle the issue of veterans experiencing homelessness.

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Type: News

Categories: Impact, Knowledge Network, Programme news, Veterans, Veterans Places, Pathways and People, Veterans' mental health and wellbeing

July 4, 2023

Collaboration, safe spaces and clearer pathways to support

June saw us deliver the latest in our series of programme focused webinars. Exploring peer support, safe spaces and essential collaboration at the heart of the Veterans’ Places, Pathways and People programme featured an inspiring mix of updates from across the programme.

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Type: News

Categories: Consultation, Impact, Knowledge Network, Uncategorized

June 29, 2023

Small Grants, Big Changes – discussing the value of small grants

We were delighted to attend a DSC Insight Talk in June which revealed new research into the value and use of small grants supporting charitable activity.

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Type: News

Categories: Carers and Families, Consultation, Forces families, Funds, New programmes, Uncategorized, Veterans

June 12, 2023

Your chance to shape the future of Covenant Fund programmes

We’re really excited to announce our Covenant Fund consultation and we want to hear from you!

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Type: News

Categories: Consultation, Impact, Uncategorized

June 6, 2023

Small Grants, Big Changes

Small Grants, Big Changes, a report by the Armed Forces Covenant Fund Trust and the Directory of Social Change (DSC), provides evidence to support what most people involved in delivering and funding charitable activities believed to be the case – small grants and small grants programmes have a vital role to play in enabling and sustaining critical support for charities and their beneficiaries.

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Type: News

Categories: Force For Change, Programme news, Reaching and Supporting

May 9, 2023

Two popular Covenant Fund programmes now open for applications

We are delighted to announce the relaunch of both the Force for Change and Reaching and Supporting Armed Forces Communities programmes.

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