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Forces Online CIO

Charity Number: 1188955
Scottish Charity Number: SC050678

Forces Online is a small, registered online veteran’s charity that was setup for:
“The relief of former members of the armed forces services personnel, their families and dependents; who are in need by reason of age, disability, financial hardship or other disadvantage, in particular but not exclusively providing them by multi-disciplinary team (advice, information and signposting and bespoke support), through collaboration, networking and campaigning for better access to services, we aim to continue to improve the lives of our beneficiary’s so that they have an enhanced quality of life and overall wellbeing for their benefit, by the provision of services as the trustees feel fit.”
We are registered in England and Wales Reg No 1188955, In Scotland as a cross-border charity Reg No SC050678. In Norther Ireland we are currently known as a 167 which is a registered charity working across the UK including Northern Ireland, where we have registered a current statement of Intent and will be called forward for formal registration in due course.

Contact Information

https://www.forcesonline.org.uk
administration@forcesonline.org.uk
Unit 5
Workshed Carriageworks
London Street,Swindon
SN1 5DG

Support Offered

At Forces Online we categorise support with a single motto which is: “Helping armed forces veterans, their families and dependents wherever we can”.
We are a team that comprises of veterans themselves, and some of whom have experienced real life issues because of their service within the armed forces and other life issues.
There is no one label that fits what we do, and we never know what’s coming through the door next. What we do know is when a veteran decides to cry out for help this is not something that has been an easy decision for them. Working through direct support and signposting to other experienced services we have been able to respond quickly to veterans in need of help and support. Whether this is a large complex issue needing a multi-disciplinary approach or a simple enquiry resolution we are here to help.
See https://www.forcesonline.org.uk/promptsheet.pdf for further guidance.

Healthier Heroes CIC

Company Number: 11475724

Our purpose is to deliver a service of safe housing, holistic, trauma-informed support that helps vulnerable adults stabilise, rehabilitate, and reintegrate into independent living and purposeful community life.

Healthier Heroes, offer more than just a safe place to stay, we are a community. Service members are supported by a multidisciplinary team including outreach workers, an in-house psychotherapist, veteran peer mentors, and wellbeing coordinators who help build emotional resilience, practical life skills, and a sense of belonging. Everything, we, as leaders, needed but never received.

Our vision is to inspire a movement of resilience and empowerment, cultivating a healthier future for all. To create a society where every veteran and those from their community, has access to safe housing, the tools, resources, and support needed to lead a healthy, balanced life.

Healthier Heroes CIC is committed to offering innovative housing, health and mental wellbeing support. Through community engagement, personalised services, and impactful education, we strive to remove barriers to well-being, promote positive lifestyle changes, and ensure that all people, especially those who have served, are given the opportunity to thrive.

Contact Information

http://www.healthierheroescic.co.uk
connect@healthierheroescic.co.uk
Bancroft House
4-6 Elizabeth Street
Burnley
BB11 2BQ

Support Offered

We offer a combination of outreach, supported accommodation, and one-to-one interventions, working closely with statutory services, health providers, local authorities, and the wider veterans’ sector. Our team has expertise in supporting individuals with complex needs, including mental health difficulties, substance misuse recovery, homelessness, and transitions back into civilian life.

Healthier Heroes CIC is committed to collaborative working, safeguarding, and evidence-based practice, ensuring that those we support receive consistent, coordinated care that promotes independence, resilience, and positive outcomes.

Herefordshire Veterans Support Centre

Charity Number: 1192644

To promote, the health, wellbeing and resettlement into the community of any and all current (and primarily) ex HM Armed Forces personnel, ex HM Armed Forces Reservists or former members of the Merchant Navy who have served alongside their HM Armed Forces
comrades during a conflict (also referred to as veterans) along with their families and dependents who reside in Herefordshire or the surrounding area region and who are (or might in the future be) in charitable need including those who are suffering from mental
or physical illness of any description or are in need of rehabilitation as a result of such illness, who are experiencing difficulties adjusting to post service civilian life, are experiencing hardship, unemployment or homelessness in such ways as the trustees of the charity think fit by:

(1) Providing a single point of contact to assist in the provision of physical, psychological, practical support, advice and encouragement to relieve a veteran’s distress, illness or hardship.

(2) Providing or assisting in the provision of activities and facilities in the interests of social welfare for recreation or other leisure time activities with the object of improving veterans’ wellbeing, self-esteem, self-confidence and aid their transition back into local society.
(3) Providing or arranging provision of education, vocational skills training or other assistance and to create and facilitate job opportunities along with assisting HM Armed Forces veterans to prepare for and find employment.
(4) Operate drop in and activity centre(s) staffed by volunteers for HM Armed Forces veterans and their families and dependants to provide advice, empathy, support and sign-posting services to help Armed Forces veterans who are experiencing problems (or might in the future) due to one of the above challenges and to assist them in accessing local service providers and wider support organisations that may be able to provide help or support.

Contact Information

http://herefordshire-vsc.org/
hvsc-referrals@herefordshire.gov.uk
100 Widemarsh Street
Hereford
HR4 9HG
01432 674853

Support Offered

HVSC support is provisioned by a rich array of personnel and activities. It operates a central hub staff by expert full time staff as a drop incentre and as a facility to bring in experts in health, finance, the law, employment, adjacent charities, social subscribers and
volunteers. It further operates pop-up centres across the County and is supported by a brilliant team of volunteers and outreach staff.

Improving Lives Plymouth

Charity Number: 1066776
Company Number: 2610208

We will work with you, to ensure you get the information, advice and support you need, at times in your life when you need us.

Contact Information

https://www.improvinglivesplymouth.org.uk/veterans-and-family-hub
ilp@improvinglivesplymouth.org.uk
Ernest English House
Buckwell Street
Plymouth
PL1 2DA

Support Offered

Improving Lives Plymouth has co-designed with veterans, their families and carers, and partners, a Plymouth Veterans and Family Hub at Ernest English House, Buckwell Street, Plymouth, PL1 2DA. The hub is run by veterans and their families for veterans and their families.
The hub provides social activity, peer support and mentoring, casework, support for older carers, and works with a range of organisations in the city to shape better pathways to employment, mental wellbeing, welfare, housing advice and financial information.
Volunteers from the veteran community and their families, and others, are recruited and trained to give them the necessary skills, knowledge and confidence, to provide group and one to one support, and awareness training.

LINKS/Combined Forces (LYNX)

Charity Number: 1139855
Company Number: 7363827

Links Combined Forces is a Mental Health project covering Carmarthenshire. The charity supports serving Armed Forces personnel, Veterans, and their families. The charity aims to support those who have experienced or are living with mental ill health to enable them to build self-confidence, self esteem learn new skills, improve health and overall well-being.

Contact Information

http://www.links.uk.net
combined.forces@links.uk.net
Unit 4
The Palms, 96
Queen Victoria Road,Llanelli
SA15 2TH

Support Offered

Links Combined Forces has worked with Veterans for over 8 years and have developed the project in line with need. The project currently offers welfare support, signposting, personal development, telephone buddy scheme, NAAFI style coffee mornings throughout Carmarthenshire and daily activities which Include – Miniature Figure Painting, IT, Arts and Crafts, Digital Photography and outdoor activities. The project also supports veterans with volunteering and work opportunities.

Lothian Veterans Centre

Scottish Charity Number: SC040690
Company Number: 362801

The charity is primarily designed as a ‘drop-in’ centre, with no appointments necessary. Our aim is to advise and support former members of our UK Armed Forces, reservists and their families, throughout Edinburgh and the Lothians, who experience any form of disadvantage post service. We have a small team of dedicated staff readily available to tackle any challenges that present, however minor or complex.

Contact Information

http://www.lvc.scot
contact@lvc.scot
11 Eskdaill Court
Dalkeith
EH22 1AG
0131 660 5537

Support Offered

– A drop-in service from 1000-1600 Monday-Friday with no appointment necessary; our drop-in centre is a safe place for “a brew and a blether” with fellow Veterans and families or to receive specialised support;
– The LVC staff team provides advice and support with issues such as employment, training, housing, homelessness and benefits;
– Through our partnership work we can facilitate quick reaction support for those facing challenges including mental health issues;
– On Wednesdays we have our D Day Club (a social club for Veterans and families aged 50+);
– Fridays are the social hub of the week when we have our bacon roll morning;
– Regular social and sporting events, outings and activities are also popular parts of our programme, including female specific, male specific and LGBT+ events;
– Transition support to serving personnel due for discharge.

Mode Rehabilitation

Charity Number: 1157257

We are a mental health charity that offers psychological and psychosocial supports the Armed Forces Community, families and carers through counselling and mental health intervention. We provide a single point of access to counselling and support through a range of psychological therapy services and mental health treatments that are tailored to individual’s unique needs.
We provide 1 to 1 counselling, family counselling, group counselling, and various mental health workshops including a “Resilience to Civilian Life” programme which helps veterans with their transition into the civilian world, and the “Lakeside Project” which provides counselling and mental health services at a beautiful location in the heart of a nature reserve for those who do not feel comfortable in a traditional, clinical counselling setting.

Contact Information

http://www.mode.me.uk/
hello@mode.me.uk
Phoenix House
Whitefield Road
Bredbury,Stockport
SK6 2SS
0161 494 1515

Support Offered

Our services our delivered both in person, by telephone, and online.
We also operate a drop-in service 3 days per week and have a 24/7 helpline for immediate support and crisis intervention.
Mental health is a crucial element in our lives, interconnected with everything we do and everything we are, which is why our team at Mode Rehabilitation strive to make a positive difference in each person’s life and to provide services that improve mental well-being, quality of life, and generate resilient communities.
Links for testimonials and a video of our premises:
Mode Rehabilitation Premises: https://youtu.be/tc2ENJiGv0I
Testimonial Video: https://youtu.be/SduRZpg6nZ4
Monday – Friday 0800 – 17000 Saturdays 0800 – 1600

National Gulf Veterans & Families Association

Charity Number: 1074867
Company Number: 3731497

The NGVFA provides practical support and help to veterans and their families and our aim is to improve the quality of the day to day lives of those who have been affected by the 1990-91 and 2003 Gulf conflicts, as well as the present Afghanistan and all other future desert conflicts. We also help veterans from other conflicts that are in need of our advice and support.

Contact Information

http://www.ngvfa.org.uk
info@ngvfa.org.uk
Unit 1a K3 Business Park
200 Clough Road
Hull
HU5 1SW
01482 808730

Support Offered

Welfare and advocacy
Tribunal representation
Fact sheets and guides
The Oasis Times – A quarterly newsletter
Website – with a members only area
A Facebook group
Respite break – A yearly five day respite break for veterans and their families
Welcome pack for new members
VIPA – (Veteran’s Information and Personal Archive) is a bespoke database collating unique information and statistical data regarding veterans from desert conflicts.

Pain Association Scotland

Scottish Charity Number: SC014486

To provide self-management for those burdened with chronic pain via monthly group meetings or by one-to-one sessions by arrangement.

Contact Information

www.painassociation.co.uk
info@painassociation.com
Suite D
Moncrieffee Business Centre
Friarton Road,Perth
PH2 8DG
0800 783 6059

Support Offered

Providing valuable tools helping veterans manage their pain more effectively on a day-to-day basis and help lead an improved quality of life.

Phoenix Heroes CIC

Company Number: 11479548

Phoenix Heroes CIC is a non-profit Community Interest Company supporting veterans, serving members of the Armed Forces and their families with a range of support services. We build veteran communities and create a natural peer support environment where our core support services are delivered directly to those who need additional help.

Contact Information

http://www.phoenixheroes.co.uk
info@phoenixheroes.co.uk
Castle House
South Street,Ashby De La Zouch
LE65 1BR
01206 932488

Support Offered

Employment networking – ERS Silver Award holders and aligned with many veteran friendly UK Companies.
Mental Health Support – BACP member Therapist and partnering PTSD support organisation. Our core team members are PTSD Awareness CPD accredited trained. Phoenix Heroes are also BACP organisational members.
Community Building – Our Veteran Carp Angling Club (VCAC) is one of the fastest growing communities in the UK. We have our own L1 & L2 Angling Coaches, and we are a “Get Fishing for Wellbeing” Angling Trust partner. We have a range of different community building initiatives and we are very family focussed.
Tackle 4 Heroes – Our Tackle 4 Heroes project is operating on a national scale enabling us to give FREE fishing equipment to our beneficiaries and their families so they can join our community fishing events.

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