AA Veterans Support

Charity Number: NIC100908
Company Number: NI607703

AA Veterans Support is a Northern Ireland based charity set up to provide help and support for Veterans and their families throughout Northern Ireland.

It is our aim to provide the necessary support services for those Veterans or their family members that may need our help.

We believe that our Forces and their families deserve our lifelong support, we aim to provide Practical, Training, Emotional and Financial support to anyone who is serving or has ever served and their families. Whenever they may need us, we’ll do whatever we can to help.

Our vow is that no matter the size of the problem we will provide help, advice and assistance in overcoming it.

Contact Information

http://www.aavsni.com

info@aavsni.com

Unit C3 Edenderry Industrial Estate
326 Crumlin Rd
Belfast
BT14 7EE

028 9074 7071

Support Offered

Practical, Training, Emotional and Financial support

ABF The Soldiers’ Charity

Charity Number: 1146420
Scottish Charity Number: SC039189

ABF The Soldiers’ Charity, giving lifetime support to serving and former soldiers and their families. Includes making grants to individuals and specialist charities that help ex-soldiers and their families.

Contact Information

http://www.soldierscharity.org

info@soldierscharity.org

Mountbarrow House
6-20 Elizabeth Street
London
SW1W 9RB

0207 901 8900

Support Offered

Financial assistance to relieve hardship: grants for living costs, emergency needs, debt relief. Provision of annuities and Educational Bursaries

Care home fees
Home adaptations
Furnishing and equipment

Mobility assistance
Funding Holiday breaks

AF & V Launchpad Ltd

Charity Number: 1153185
Company Number: 08633047

Launchpad is a registered charity that provides veterans (and their partners) of all Services with affordable, self-contained flats arranged in managed houses in Newcastle (34 flats) and Liverpool (52 flats).
The houses, Avondale House in Newcastle and Speke House in Liverpool, provide veterans with accommodation as well as recreation, training and IT facilities.
The staff provides support and guidance to the veterans, as well as harnessing support of other organisations, to help residents successfully make the transition from military to civilian life.
An important part of the process is integration with the local community and mutual support.
All this is provided to enable the veterans to avoid homelessness, unemployment and social exclusion.

Contact Information

http://www.afv-launchpad.co.uk

enquiries@afv-launchpad.co.uk

3 Hansard Mews
Holland Park
London
W14 8BJ

0300 1111 238

Support Offered

Excellent recently refurbished, self-contained flats at an affordable price in Newcastle and Liverpool.

Communal facilities for recreation and training, an IT suite, WiFi, laundry room and garden.

Assistance to arrange and manage benefits and finances.

Training for employment through other providers.

Assistance with job searches and job applications, with other providers.

Assistance with search for permanent accommodation, with other providers.

Access to recreational, sporting and adventure pursuits, with other providers.

Engagement with the local community.

Agamemnon Housing Association

Company Number: 21084R

To provide affordable and sensitively managed sheltered housing for people over 60 years of age, giving priority to those who have served in the Armed Forces and their surviving partners or relatives.

Contact Information

http://www.agamemnon.org.uk

enquiries@agamemnon.org.uk

Agamemnon House
Lindisfarne Close
Cosham,Portsmouth
PO6 2SB

02932387086

Support Offered

We offer sheltered housing that is supported by an on-site warden. Accommodation consists of single and double flats within a communal court set in beautiful grounds.

Age UK Support Services (Yorkshire & Humber)

Charity Number: 1063389
Company Number: 3382427

Age UK Support Services (Yorkshire & Humber) works with local Age UK charities to develop and support new and existing services that improve the health, wellbeing and quality of life for older people across the Region.

Contact Information

https://www.ageconcernyorkshireandhumber.org.uk

alison@ageukssyh.org.uk

13-17 Sunbridge Road
Bradford
BD1 2AY

Support Offered

Local Age UKs provide a range of services, including:
– Information and advice
– Help with applying for state benefits
– Social activities, e.g. luncheon clubs, reminiscence groups, outings
– Volunteering opportunities
– Befriending services
– Support at home
– Day services and other support services

Aggie Weston’s

Charity Number: 238748
Scottish Charity Number: SC039718

Dedicated to supporting the serving men and women of the Royal Navy, Royal Marines, and their families.

Contact Information

http://aggies.org.uk/

office@aggies.org.uk

Castaway House
311 Twyford Avenue
Portsmouth
PO2 8RN

02392 650505

Support Offered

Pastoral support to serving personnel and their families centred around coffee bars situated on bases around the UK.

Children’s afterschool and holiday clubs, and groups for parents and toddlers in Rowner Gosport.

Storybook Waves provides the opportunity for service personnel who are deploying to record bedtime stories for their children.

Executive management of the Naval Families Federation.

Alabaré Christian Care and Support

Charity Number: 1006504
Company Number: 2604011

Ending homelessness for veterans by providing a pathway of accommodation and support to enable them to move on to a successful, independent and fulfilling life

Contact Information

http://www.alabare.co.uk

enquiries@alabare.co.uk

Riverside House
2 Watt Road
Salisbury
SP2 7UD

01722 322 882

Support Offered

Temporary supported accommodation – both higher and lower support homes, through which residents can transition to independence

Signposting to specialist support services

Mentoring and Befriending

Alexander Duckham Memorial Schools Trust

Charity Number: 1064895

The Alexander Duckham Memorial Schools Trust aims to promote the education and welfare of children of members, and former members, of the RAF who are in need of financial assistance.

Contact Information

http://www.admst.org.uk

admin@admst.org.uk

16 Westpoint
49 Putney Hill
London
SW15 6RU

Support Offered

Allied Services Trust

Charity Number: 1148194
Company Number: 07930954

Allied Services Trust:

1. Provides unbiased education to raise awareness about the importance of preparing for possible future incapacity
2. Empowers people to make informed decisions about who might help them in the future with their financial and welfare matters
3. Offers a drafting service which is accessible and affordable
4. Offers an administration service to help those who are vulnerable and have no-one else to act on their behalf
5. Operates on a not for profit basis offering additional reduced fees for those on low income and experiencing financial hardship

Contact Information

http://www.alliedservicestrust.org/

enquiries@alliedservicestrust.org

The Granary
Newlands Manor Farm
Everton
SO41 0JH

01590 644073

Support Offered

Lasting Powers of Attorney
Attorneyship Administrations
Court of Protection Applications
Deputyship Administrations
Unbiased Education
Drafting Workshops
Mobile Clinics
Supports people Nationally

Anglia Ruskin University (Veterans&Families Inst)

Academic Institution

Contact Information

http://anglia.ac.uk/vfi

Matt.fossey@anglia.ac.uk

Veterans & Families Institute
Anglia Ruskin University
Chelmsford Campus, Bishop Hall Lane,Chelmsford
CM1 1SQ

Support Offered

The Veteran & Families Institute Director, Matt Fossey has extensive expertise in the UK voluntary sector, including working with the mental health charities Mind and Rethink Mental Illness as National Stakeholder Manager on the national anti-stigma campaign “Time to Change”. Matt is chair of the National Veterans Offender Working Group and is also a member of the DWP Veterans Working Group. Matt is a Senior Associate with the Centre for Mental Health and is also vice-chair of Healthwatch Essex. Matt has written widely including publications on veterans’ health and wellbeing, mental health and liaison psychiatry, including a number of key publications with economist Michael Parsonage.
Matt is supported by a host of academics researching issues related to veterans and their families including, Post Operational Stress Management, the effects of limb loss, Sexual Violence, Veterans in the Criminal Justice System, Spousal Employment and , Mental Health.

The Veterans Research Hub provides an accessible, contemporary and authoritative repository of UK and international research-related resources and literature on military veterans and their families, including transitions to civilian lives, that informs and stimulates research, policy development, improved service delivery and journalistic enquiry.”Work on the project began in autumn 2015, hosted within the Veterans & Families Institute (VFI), and will run to autumn 2017, by which time the Hub itself will be established.