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Veterans Outdoors

Charity Number: 1175204

Based in the South West, Veterans Outdoors is a unique charity offering support, friendship, and outdoor wellbeing activities. We understand the therapeutic benefits of working with horticulture, nature and animals or simply just being outdoors walking, kayaking, learning rural craft skills or just sitting around the fire drinking tea. We do all this and more – and our activities are open to anyone who has served in the Armed Forces, is still serving or who has a spousal connection. We also have unique ‘women only veterans’ projects too.

Contact Information

http://www.veteransoutdoors.org.uk
info@veteransoutdoors.org.uk
c/o 4 Stonesclose
Galpin Street
Modbury,Ivybridge
PL21 0RZ
07760 729080

Support Offered

Whether you want a new or different experience, to learn a new skill, try a new hobby or just be part of something and meet new friends, we’d love to hear from you. For those that need it, our programmes are proven to build confidence, help reconnections with family and friends and improve physical and mental wellbeing. If you’d like to find out more about what we’re up to and become part of our growing family of veterans contact us on 07760 729080 or via the email and website below.

Veterans Outreach Support

Charity Number: 1154429
Company Number: 08479090

Veterans Outreach Support provides welcoming and relaxed places where UK veterans and family members can come for confidential social or psychological support, or simply to meet for a chat and a cuppa. Former members of British Armed Forces and Reserves, the Royal Fleet Auxiliary and the Merchant Navy are all welcome. Drop In centres are normally open once a month, follow the link to their website for more details.

Contact Information

http://www.vosuk.org
admin@vosuk.org
The Royal Maritime Club
75-80 Queen Street
Portsmouth
PO1 3HS
02392 731 767

Support Offered

Veterans with Dogs

Charity Number: 1161554
Company Number: 8443724

Helping Lead Independent Lives.

VETERANS WITH DOGS is the UK’s first Charity organisation training Assistance Dogs for British ex-servicemen and women with service-related mental health conditions.

Veterans train in partnership with dogs, strengthening their bond and understanding, leading to greater independence, improved self-esteem and increased quality of life.

Contact Information

http://www.veteranswithdogs.org.uk
info@veteranswithdogs.org.uk
Hannahs at Seale-Hayne
Howton Lane
Newton Abbot
TQ12 6NQ
0843 2898899

Support Offered

Our Partner Animal Life Skills (PALS) programme helps those with “invisible” injuries regain quality of life and independence.

– Proactive participation
– One to one training
– Residential training

Walking With The Wounded

Charity Number: 1153497

Established in 2010, Walking With The Wounded ‘WWTW’ is a leading military charity which recognises that those who served, deserve.

Whether mentally wounded, socially wounded or physically wounded, they deserve the care, support and means they and their families need to function in society, serving in the communities in which they live, reigniting their sense of purpose and making a positive contribution again.

Walking With The Wounded gets those who’ve served – and their families – back on their feet. We do three things: employment, mental health and care coordination which are saving jobs, homes, relationships and lives for the veterans who are struggling since leaving the military.

Our innovative partnerships with the NHS England wide OP Courage service , and Head Start , own mental health programme enabling 121 therapy within days, are delivering significant, positive, social impacts across the UK.

We have Integrated Regional Services in the North East, North West , East of England and in the South East.

Contact Information

http://walkingwiththewounded.org.uk
info@wwtw.org.uk
42 Canada Street
M40 8AE
01263 863900

Support Offered

Deliver employment, mental health and care coordination programmes to ex-servicemen and women.

Waterloo Uncovered

Charity Number: 1168268
Company Number: 09533851

Waterloo Uncovered (WU) is a ground-breaking charity which uses a world class archaeological project exploring the Waterloo Battlefield in Belgium to support veterans and serving personnel in their recovery and health, wellbeing, transition, education and employment. The aims of the charity, as set out in the articles, are to assist veterans and serving personnel by any means possible, to give veterans
the opportunity to participate in the archaeological study of sites of military interest, to provide education and vocational skills training to the public generally, and veterans specially, and to advance the education of the public through archaeology.

Contact Information

http://www.waterloouncovered.com
info@waterloouncovered.com
Office 102
Parkway House
Sheen Lane
SW14 8LS

Support Offered

Waterloo Uncovered runs a nine-month Veteran Support Programme, aimed at giving veterans (and
serving personnel) from all corners of the United Kingdom and all parts of the Armed Forces a
comprehensive experience of Battlefield Archaeology. This experience brings numerous benefits, both in
supporting the recovery from physical and mental injuries, and in providing the opportunity to explore
archaeology as a possible professional, academic or casual interest in civilian life. The programme is supported throughout by archaeologists, and by professionals and enthusiasts from related disciplines, as well as by a team of Wellbeing professionals who are on hand to ensure that the programme is of maximum value to each participant.

We Are With You (Addaction)

Charity Number: 1001957
Scottish Charity Number: SC040009
Company Number: 02580377

We Are With You (formerly Addaction) is one of the UK’s leading mental health, drug and alcohol charities. We work with adults and young people, in community settings, in prisons, in residential rehab and through outreach. In 2017 we supported 140,000 people.

We believe that everyone can change and we support them to do it.

Our services include support around Mental Health, and Alcohol and Drugs, for a range of groups and populations including adults, young people, friends and family, veterans, people involved with the criminal justice system, and older people.

Contact Information

https://www.wearewithyou.org.uk/
info@wearewithyou.org.uk
Lower Ground Floor
Gate House
1-3 St Johns Square,London
EC1M 4DH
020 7251 5860

Support Offered

Since 2014, We Are With You (formerly Addaction) has supported over 500 veterans with problems related to drugs and alcohol through our pioneering Right Turn programme.
Right Turn is a veteran-specific substance misuse recovery model that acknowledges the specific experiences of people in the armed forces community and focuses on re-directing the comradeship that underpins military life towards supporting recovery. Amongst a range of opportunities, support comes in the form of specialist one-to-one sessions, peer-support groups, access/referral to prescribing services, and pathways to other veteran services.

Support for veterans with substance or alcohol misuse problems is available at any We Are With You service.

Westfield War Memorial Village – Lancaster

Charity Number: 223625
Company Number: 157888

The charity has two enduring objectives each underpinned by a number of aims.
Objective 1 – The relief of those in need by reason of disability, ill health, financial hardship or other disadvantage by:
Aim 1: Providing a range of quality, affordable, rental accommodation to the Armed Forces Community.
Aim 2: The provision of welfare support to residents of Westfield Village and to relieve need by providing financial support, as appropriate, and where public funds are not available or cannot be provided in a reasonable time.
Aim 3: The disbursement of funds to charities and other organisations that support the Armed Forces Community.

Objective 2 – The advancement of community development, education, culture and heritage by:
Aim 4: Providing Sir Thomas Storey House as a Community Centre for the residents of Westfield Village.
Aim 5: Supporting residents of Westfield village in their community activities and maintaining the environment and ethos of the village.

Contact Information

http://westfieldmemorialvillage.co.uk
info@westfieldmemorialvillage.co.uk
1 Sir Thomas Storey House
West Road
Lancaster
LA1 5PE

Support Offered

We are a very small but longstanding charity that has experience in the provision of housing, namely Westfield Village, and supporting in an advisory role of Veterans. We have over the years, gained knowledge of working closely with and alongside housing associations, charities and other organisations.

Widowed and Young

Charity Number: 1164988

WAY is the only national charity in the UK for people aged 50 or under when their partner died. It’s a peer-to-peer support group run by a network of volunteers who have been bereaved at a young age themselves, so they understand exactly what other members are going through.

WAY was founded in 1997 and now has more than 2,800 members across England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland. WAY aims to provide peer-to-peer emotional and practical support to young widowed men and women – married or not, with or without children, whatever their sexual orientation – as they adjust to life after the death of their partner.

Contact Information

http://www.widowedandyoung.org.uk
enquiries@widowedandyoung.org.uk
Suite 14
College Business Centre
Uttoxeter New Road
DE22 3WZ

Support Offered

WAY offers a unique peer-to-peer support network to anyone who has lost their partner at a young age. We know that talking to and socialising with others who have been through a similar experience can be an enormous help when you are trying to rebuild your life after bereavement.

If you were bereaved when you were aged 50 or under, married or not, with or without children, whatever your sexual orientation, race or religion – you are welcome to join WAY.

Wings for Warriors

Charity Number: 1148093

To facilitate the transition of veterans affected by injury or illness into sustainable careers in aviation.

Contact Information

http://www.wings4warriors.org.uk
info@wings4warriors.org.uk
42 Admirals House
Gisors Road
Southsea
PO4 8GX
07760 154074

Support Offered

Our aim is to provide the financial and emotional support required to allow our beneficiaries to make their own, long term transition into a new career every bit as exciting and rewarding as their last.

Witham Hub

Charity Number: 1188048

The aims of the Witham Hub are to promote social inclusion for the public benefit of individuals living within the town of Witham and its surrounding area by preventing people from becoming socially excluded, relieving the needs of those people who are socially excluded and assisting them to integrate into society.
To develop the capacity and skills of individuals living within that community who are socially and economically disadvantaged in such a way that they are better able to identify, and help meet, their needs and to participate more fully in society.

To ensure that no one goes hungry by offering food support whenever needed, via our self-referral scheme, by referral from trusted partners or by our community fridge. We offer a no questions asked food parcel to bridge a gap when funds are tight but also offer someone to chat with if needed supporting mental health. Offering a friendly space for a cuppa and a chat. Our ethos is we put the unity back in community.

Contact Information

http://www.withamhub.co.uk/
info@withamhub.co.uk
17 The Grove Centre
Witham
CM8 2YT
01376 617998

Support Offered

We offer many services:
Food support, mental health counselling with trained counsellors, assistance with form filling, volunteering opportunities for all both able bodied and disabled people which can lead to employment. We operate crafting workshops and drop-in groups including physical exercise groups. We also offer crisis prevention services and collaborate with professional services to support vulnerable individuals and families.

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