X-Forces is proud to announce that it has officially broken another glass ceiling, having supported 1,000 entrepreneurs, and lent over £9M in seed capital to help veterans and their families start their own businesses.
X-Forces 1,000th Success Story: Lee Harris-Hamer
The 1,000th recipient of X-Forces’ support, Lee is the owner of White Horse Cleaning Company Limited based in in Thirsk, North Yorkshire
Read morePlans have been unveiled for a £12.5m Veterans Care Village at Broughton House in Salford.
Broughton House is the only home for ex-servicemen and women in the north west and in 2016 celebrated its centenary.
Plans for the new village will be submitted to Salford City Council this month and are expected to be considered by the planning, building and regeneration committee in September.
If permission is granted, work on the ambitious scheme is due to start early next year. A public consultation exercise is currently underway.
Read moreAll ex-service people aged 65 and over and their families are welcome to RBLI’s free Information and Advice Day, held in the Visitors Centre, Dungeness B Power Station. Come along and meet other veterans, share your stories and experiences and make new friends.
Read moreAll ex-service people aged 65 and over and their families are welcome to RBLI’s free Information and Advice Day, held in the West Kingsdown Village Hall. Come along and meet other veterans, share your stories and experiences and make new friends.
Read moreAll ex-service people aged 65 and over and their families are welcome to RBLI’s free Information and Advice Day, held in the Westgate Hall in Canterbury. Come along and meet other veterans, share your stories and experiences and make new friends.
Read moreex-Service people aged 65 and over and their families are welcome to RBLI’s free Information and Advice Day, held in the Walmer and Kingsdown Golf Club in Kent. Come along and meet other veterans, share your stories and experiences and make new friends.
Read moreA blind veteran from Norwich who receives vital support from Blind Veterans UK, the national charity for vision-impaired ex-Service men and women, visited the charity’s show garden at the prestigious RHS Hampton Court Palace Flower Show last week.
Chris Humphrey, 65 and from Thorpe End, volunteered as an ambassador for Blind Veterans UK and encouraged anyone who could receive support from the charity to get in touch.
After joining the Royal Navy in 1967, Chris was first employed as a Junior Radio Operator on HMS Raleigh. He says: “I completed my initial training on HMS Raleigh, before completing my Branch Training on HMS Mercury.
Read moreForces in Mind Trust (FiMT), in collaboration with Centre for Mental Health and King’s Centre for Military Health Research, has issued its second highlight notice under its multi-million pound Mental Health Research Programme, a five year programme established to encourage high quality research in the field of veterans’ and their families’ mental health.
The aim of this highlight notice is to encourage applications through the Mental Health Research Programme (MHRP) that propose innovative ways to identify, evaluate and/or propose new methods to address employment rates of former Services personnel with mental ill-health.
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Read moreMen dressed as penguins and a group decked out in pirate costumes were just some of the sights on show when a charity held an It’s a Knockout contest.
Turn to Starboard – a charity that help injured veterans by taking them sailing – hosted the event at Boscawen Park in Malpas near Truro on Sunday July 9 in front of hundreds of spectators.
Thirteen teams in different levels of fancy dress and ranging in age from adults to young children competed for top scores in a series of inflatable obstacle challenges.
Events included having to dive through a foam-filled inflatable tunnel while carrying a piece of a jigsaw before having to stick the piece on an inflatable wall and solving a puzzle.
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