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Forces Support

Charity Number: 1157531
Company Number: 7192349

Our purpose is to provide practical support to improve the quality of life for bereaved military family members – parents, partners and children. We also contribute to the provision of good quality, affordable and sustainable accommodation through partnerships with housing associations for ex-service personnel, so they can build new and rewarding lives when their service careers finish.

Contact Information

http://www.forcessupport.org.uk/
admin@forcessupport.uk
Unit 2 Two Rivers Industrial Estate
Station Lane
Witney
OX28 4BH
01993 848244

Support Offered

We offer hands-on support including garden maintenance, painting and decorating and other DIY services based on requests made by bereaved families. To date we have completed nearly 600 projects in the UK. We have supplied 300+ remembrance benches and fire pits as well as hundreds of remembrance cards to families to ensure they do not feel forgotten, and personalised memory books. We have also commissioned 10 personal portraits of fallen soldiers.
In support of veterans we are currently working alongside Broughton House based in Manchester to provide funding to expand their Armed Forces Support Hub. This is a one-stop shop that provides tailored advice and support for health, housing, welfare, social and employment issues. We are also working with Haig Housing Trust on various projects. One example is funded scooter shelters for veteran homes in Moredon.

Forward Assist

Charity Number: 1150408
Company Number: 08190905

Forward Assist is a ‘Veteran Centric’ Registered Charity based in North Tyneside. Its core aim is to enrich the lives of UK veterans by connecting them to their community through physical and social activity. Forward Assist believes that by promoting ‘active citizenship’ former servicemen and women will become both, ‘key stakeholders’ and ‘community leaders’ in their chosen communities. Forward Assist enables veterans to use their transferable military skills to do good for others through well supervised projects that support those less well off than themselves. Forward Assist provides ‘life changing’ opportunities such as international travel, whilst increasing self-esteem and the aspirations of those that have served in British Armed Forces. In doing so Veterans gain the respect of the wider civilian community, significant others, thus facilitating a smoother transition to civilian life.
Forward Assist have developed a portfolio of local employers who support our veteran community by working closely with our Education Training & Employment Coordinators to facilitate vital work experience/ placements, career advice and guidance, interview skills, and realistic employment opportunities.

Contact Information

http://www.forward-assist.com/
admin@forwardassist.com
C/O John Willie Sams Centre
Market Street
Dudley
NE23 7HS
0191 250 4877

Support Offered

1. Support all HM Armed Forces veterans & Reservists regardless of time served, age or physical/mental condition.
2. Refer and chaperone process to supporting Charities & Organisations for assistance with health, substance abuse, family breakdown, legal advice, education & training, homelessness, Criminal Justice system involvement, financial & debt advice, welfare, funding options etc.
3. Diversionary activities to encourage engagement and deter social isolation.
4. Mental & physical wellbeing through sporting activities.
5. Community benefit projects to underpin confidence, team work, self-worth and community integration.
6. Full employment support package including CV writing (tailored for the applied role), interpreting transferable skills, interview preparation, variations of application formats, arranging work placements specific to the veterans targeted career goal, identifying training gaps/courses/funding options, volunteering opportunities while searching for employment.
7. Development of independent living skills.
8. Mentoring through unemployment and external agency support.
9. Opportunity of annual international travel (France/USA) for engaged and progressed veterans.

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.

HighGround

Charity Number: 1151225
Company Number: 8236843

To provide advice and support to Service Leavers, Reservists and Veterans about employment and vocational opportunities in the land-based sector.

Contact Information

http://www.highground-uk.org
c/o The Poppy Factory
20 Petersham Road
Richmond
TW10 6UR

Support Offered

Advice re land-based training, qualifications, work experience, employment and self-employment.

Rural Weeks programme starts Spring 2015.

Ongoing mentoring and support.

Provides Horticultural Therapy service at Defence Medical Rehabilitation Centre at Headley Court.

Hire a Hero

Charity Number: 1143606
Company Limit by Guarantee: 07425930

Hire a Hero is a charity established to support all service leavers with the transition to meaningful civilian employment.

Hire a Hero supports service leavers, regardless of service type or length, situation or background, by doing whatever it takes for as long as it takes to provide individual support in the transition from service life.

Contact Information

http://www.hireaherouk.org/
info@hireahero.org.uk
Unit 3 Mamhilad Technology Park
Mamhilad
NP4 0JJ
01495 366670

Support Offered

Support in to Employment
Career Coaching
Job Opportunities
Training
Mentoring
Housing Advice
Welfare Support

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.

Mission Motorsport

Charity Number: 1146159
Company Number: 7862605

To aid in the recovery and rehabilitation of those affected by military operations by providing opportunities through Motorsport.

We have two formal roles to Defence:

In the coordination and provision of motor sport as a recovery activity
As Relationship Managers to the automotive industry for vocational opportunities for the wounded, injured and sick

Contact Information

http://www.missionmotorsport.org/
team@missionmotorsport.org
Vantage Point Business Centre
Micheldean
GL17 0DD
03330 338338

Support Offered

Our output is in three areas.

Experience – Firstly, in the provision of days out, privileged access to big events and in a first hand, front seat, white knuckle introduction to an exciting and engaging sport.
Competition – The preparation, development, coaching and teamwork involved in competition is a hugely cathartic experience. By engaging in sprints, hill climbs, track racing, and rallying we engender a real team ethos. It is about much more than just the driving – car and boat preparation, logistics, support and race management all present challenges to be overcome. This can greatly help in the rebuilding of an individual’s confidence and provides emotional as well as practical support, and we are chock full of examples of where that is exactly the case – where participation in motorsport is changing lives for the better.
Vocation – Mission Motorsport provides a range of training courses and educational opportunities to suit the needs of individuals. These range from one day basic car maintenance courses at our workshop near Tedworth House; to a Modular Motorsport Foundation course culminating in a residential placement working with a major race team

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

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