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...
Brian Percival, Aged Veterans Support Worker for Age UK Yorkshire and Humber branch has been involved in the ‘Mission Possible’ project working with the Yorkshire Film Archive. The Project was set up to help aged veterans by showing short films …
Launchpad is a charity that runs houses comprising over 80 self-contained flats and communal facilities for veterans in Newcastle and Liverpool...
Scotty’s Little Soldiers, a children’s military charity founded by army widow Nikki Scott, has more than doubled its members over the last 12 months and now supports, an ever increasing, 268 children of the fallen, across the UK...
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...
