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Samaritans

Charity Number: 219432
Scottish Charity Number: SC040604
Company Number: 757372

Samaritans provides completely confidential emotional support face-to-face and via phone, email and text message, around the clock every day of the year. Last year this equated to 5.3m contacts for support. Our 21,000 volunteers, working in our network of 201 branches across the UK and the Republic of Ireland answering a call for help every six seconds and are trained to support people in emotional distress and vulnerable situations, such as those faced by veterans, reservists and service families; mental health issues, relationship breakdown, financial difficulties and suicidal thoughts.

Contact Information

http://www.samaritans.org/
reception@Samaritans.org
The Upper Mill
Kingston Road
Ewell
KT17 2AF
020 8394 8300

Support Offered

Completely confidential emotional support face-to-face and via phone, email and text message, around the clock every day of the year.

Sandhurst Trust

Charity Number: 1154476
Company Number: 08722309

The Sandhurst Trust is the charity of the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst. It promotes the Sandhurst brand of leadership and helps to preserve the heritage and traditions of Sandhurst.

It supports the officer cadets and staff at Sandhurst and the wider Army serving and retired officer community through partnership with the Officers’ Association.

The Trust is a membership organisation open to all those regular and reserves who have trained at Sandhurst or held a commission in the British Army. 100% of membership donations are used to provide welfare support.

Contact Information

https://www.sandhursttrust.org/
director@sandhursttrust.org
Old College
The Royal Military Academy
Sandhurst,Camberley
GU15 4PQ
01276 412000

Support Offered

Welfare support to officer cadets under training at Sandhurst, staff and families.
Financial support to serving and retired Army officers through the Officers’ Association.

Scar Free Foundation, The

Charity Number: 1078666
Company Number: 03831398

The Scar Free Foundation is a medical research charity; our vision is a world without scarring. Our mission is to achieve scar free healing within a generation and transform the millions of lives affected by scarring.

Contact Information

http://www.scarfree.org.uk/
info@scarfree.org.uk
The Royal College of Surgeons of England
38 – 43 Lincoln’s Inn Fields
WC2A 3PE

Support Offered

The Foundation has a 25-year track record dedicated to advancing pioneering research into would healing and disfigurement. We take pride in our association with the Armed Forces and veteran community, emphasizing a pivotal aspect of our mission: enhancing the physical and psychological wellbeing of this distinguished group. At the heart of our commitment lies The Scar Free Foundation Centre for Conflict Wound Research, where uniformed and civilian scientists and clinicians collaborate synergistically. Together, they strive to elevate both immediate and long-term rehabilitative therapies, aiming to significantly improve the lives of Armed Forces personnel wounded in conflict.

Scottish Veterans’ Residences

Scottish Charity Number: SC012739

Provide supported independent living accommodation for ex-Service people and ex-Merchant mariners who are homeless or in need.

Contact Information

http://www.svronline.org
info@svronline.org
53 Canongate
Edinburgh
EH8 8BS
0131 556 0091

Support Offered

Help with benefits and pensions.
Financial support for residents on very low incomes.

128 high quality, single, en-suite rooms with full catering service in Edinburgh and Dundee. 25 affordable rental flats.

Practical, emotional and welfare support including housing support. 24 hour support warden cover.

Scotty’s Little Soldiers

Charity Number: 1170528

To provide relief from the effects of bereavement to young people up to and including the age of 25 who have experienced the death of a parent who served with the armed forces of the crown.

Contact Information

http://www.scottyslittlesoldiers.co.uk
hello@scottyslittlesoldiers.co.uk
Unit 21 Bergen Way
King’s Lynn
PE30 2JG
08000 928 571

Support Offered

The charity is currently providing assistance to hundreds of bereaved Forces children and young people around the UK and services offered include guidance to parents and carers, access to professional child bereavement support, personal education and learning assistance (including grants) and fun activities such as holiday respite breaks and group events. These are all designed to remind the children and young people supported by Scotty’s that they are not alone.

Service Dogs UK

Charity Number: 1165409
Company Number: 9553131

Service Dogs UK is a unique charity that partners Veterans with PTSD from the Armed Forces and Emergency Services with specially selected dogs from ‘rescue’. Once partnered they embark on a 9 – 12 month journey together, where under our expert guidance, they reach accreditation as an Assistance Dog Partnership.

There is no cost to the Veteran for the dog, the equipment, training, food or insurance, the charity pays all the costs of running the programme until the partnership eventually becomes accredited. It is a challenging journey but the Veterans are supported every step of the way as they work alongside other Veterans with PTSD and mentors who have completed the course. They learn to work as a team, to get to know each others needs and to become an excellent partnership that is proud to be seen in public and wear the special red harness.

All of our Veterans have free ongoing support from us for the life of the partnership and are prioritised for successor dogs. A re-test is required every year at no cost to the Veteran, the continuous support and assistance provided by the charity is part of our commitment to those who have served.

Contact Information

http://www.servicedogsuk.org
getintouch@servicedogsuk.org
Fareham Marina
Lower Quay
Fareham
PO16 0RA
03301200755

Support Offered

Our training methods and our programme have been formulated following extensive research with the help of a Churchill Fellowship in the USA and the Netherlands. The programme has been proven at every level and is the only UK PTSD Assistance Dog Programme accredited internationally and the only member of Assistance Dogs UK.

At each Hub we have a dedicated training team who are there to guide the prospective teams through the programme and onto accreditation. We have Veteran mentors who are on hand to provide support throughout the programme and we link in with other Armed Forces Charities to try and ensure ‘wrap around’ assistance if required.

Smart Savings CIC (Veterans Regroup)

Company Number: 06995089

Smart Savings CIC is a charitable and award-winning Community Interest Company that has supported members of the Armed Forces community in Cornwall and Devon since 2012. We are regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority, registered with the ICO, are members of Advice UK and ASDIC and are a Veterans Gateway’ partner.
We enable serving members of the armed forces, veterans and their families to access vital support services to tackle money, health, housing and employment issues.
Our team of veteran support workers use their own experiences to help fellow veterans and their families at our monthly drop-in and hub in Cornwall to confront challenges in their lives and manage their journeys of recovery.

Contact Information

http://www.smartsavings.org.uk/veterans-support/
info@smartsavings.org.uk
Redruth Community Centre
Foundry Road
Redruth
TR15 1AN
01209 212579

Support Offered

Our team of FCA-accredited money and welfare advisers provide specialist advice and information relating to money, debt, housing, health and employment. Our veteran drop-in and hub offers peer support, training, social activities, refreshments and food parcels.
We work collaboratively with military charities, statutory bodies and other relevant organisations to increase veterans’ access to services and improve their journeys of recovery.

Soldiers League Charity

Charity Number: 1178408

Soldiers League uses Rugby League as a vehicle to support SP and Veterans who have suffered injuries (physical or mental).
This is through support to attend Rugby League events or through participation in our Wheelchair Rugby League side.

Contact Information

http://www.soldiersleague.com
committee@soldiersleague.com
14 Figsbury Ridge
Salisbury
SP4 6JA

Support Offered

We have strong links into the Rugby League community, through the national governing body (RFL), a network of retired professional players, a network of serving and retired service personnel, and through the England Wheelchair RL and wheelchair Super League.

As 10% of SP come from traditional rugby league areas, this enables us to facilitate support through a non-military route to those in need.

Spirit of Normandy Trust

Charity Number: 1038121

Spirit of Normandy Trust was founded in 1994 with two main objectives- Benevolence and Education

Contact Information

http://www.spiritofnormandy.org.uk/
info@spiritofnormandy.org.uk
The Spirit of Normandy Trust
PO Box 300
Shrewsbury
SY5 6WP
01428 605672

Support Offered

Benevolence To provide financial assistance for veterans of the three services who served in the Normandy Campaign and their dependants. Requests directed through SSAFA info@ssafa.org.uk

Education To increase knowledge, understanding and appreciation of the general public concerning those events leading up to and beyond the Normandy Campaign, and their historical significance.

The Young Historian Project http://www.spiritofnormandy.org.uk/young-historians.html

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