Queens Park Rangers is the first London club in the English Football League to sign the Armed Forces covenant. The club has pledged to provide a career pathway for veterans and to support club employees who are training or deployed …
In October 2014 the British Armed Forces were preparing to withdraw the last few troops from Afghanistan and the media was full of stories about the effects of recent conflicts upon the men and women returning home...
Established by Jim Davidson OBE, Care after Combat is committed to providing support and practical assistance for veterans in the criminal justice system...
A project designed to help veterans as they go through the criminal justice system in Wales has been awarded funding from the Armed Forces Covenant fund. Support Transition of Military Personnel (SToMP) was developed to try to ensure veterans who enter the criminal justice system are consistently identified early on and can be guided towards those support services...
So what is it about Veterans Breakfast Clubs that matters so much to the veterans? Is it the camaraderie, banter, or is it simply “returning to the tribe”?
This summer, the Ministry of Defence (MOD) launched a pilot of the new Integrated High Dependency Care System (IHDCS), designed to ensure a small group of personnel and veterans who need additional support as a result of severe injuries sustained during operations benefit from enhanced on-going assistance...
Air Commodore Paul Hugheson is the Director of Welfare and Policy for the RAF Benevolent Fund. Paul served in the RAF for 26 years and has seen for himself at first hand how stress and trauma experienced during service can lead to anxiety...
A series of 19,240 poppy pins, 1 representing each British soldier killed on the opening day of the Battle of the Somme, have been created for the Royal British Legion by TMB Art Metal. The man behind the pins, Christopher Bennett, tells us about these unique pieces of history...
The Royal Naval Association (RNA) has over 20,000 members across 370 branches in the UK and overseas. The association is a family of current and former Naval Service personnel, relatives and supporters of the Royal Navy...
Seventy two years ago, early in the morning on 06 June, a combined force of 156,000 Allied soldiers stormed a handful of beaches along the coast of Normandy facing heavy fire from the German coastal defences, known as the Atlantic Wall...
