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Plane Saver Credit Union (Joining Forces)

Company Number: IP00345C

Plane Saver Credit Union is a not-for-profit financial cooperative, providing an range of flexible savings and affordable loans for Armed Forces personnel straight from their JPA pay.
The initiative, which is supported by the Ministry of Defence, also welcomes family members and veterans in receipt of a pension to join.
At Plane Saver we look at finance differently – supporting our members to make ethical and sound financial decisions.
Join today for free at: planesavercu.co.uk

Contact Information

https://planesavercu.co.uk/
info@planesaver.co.uk
Profile West
950 Great West Road
Brentford
TW8 9ES
0208 607 5020

Support Offered

Savings and loans with repayments straight from your JPA pay.
A return on your savings in the form of an annual dividend.
Loans of up to £25,000
Free Life Cover on loans and savings
Not-for-profit
10,000 members

PTSD Resolution

Charity Number: 1202649

PTSD Resolution provides free, prompt and effective mental health therapy for UK Armed Forces veterans, reservists and their families suffering from post-traumatic stress and related mental health conditions.

Founded in 2009, the charity has helped over 4,500 clients through a nationwide network of 200 qualified Human Givens therapists. Treatment typically resolves issues in an average of seven sessions at a cost of £940 per client, funded entirely through donations.

PTSD Resolution is accredited by the Royal College of Psychiatrists to the Quality Network for Veterans Mental Health Services and operates with minimal overhead – 93% of donations go directly to charitable objectives.

The charity works collaboratively with partner organisations across the veterans’ sector, with 60% of clients referred through partnerships and professional networks.

An integral part of its work is research using real world evidence to constantly improve the quality of therapy delivered by the therapist network. Results are reported in peer reviewed and published papers which demonstrate a high level of efficacy and acceptability of the service.

Our helpline is open Monday to Friday 9am to 5pm.

Contact Information

http://www.ptsdresolution.org
contact@ptsdresolution.org
c/o Chantry House
22 Upperton Road
Eastbourne
BN21 1BF
0300 302 0551

Support Offered

Treatment uses Human Givens Therapy, a non-invasive approach delivered through one-to-one sessions either face-to-face locally or online. This compassionate method doesn’t require clients to relive traumatic experiences, with both client and therapist agreeing when treatment is complete.

The charity uniquely supports those other services often exclude – veterans in prison (across 35 institutions), those with addiction issues, and clients with complex diagnoses. Almost half of those who call decide to have therapy with appointments available within 14 days.

PTSD Resolution’s FAITH programme specifically supports family members affected by military trauma, recognising that 17% of clients are relatives of veterans.

The charity also provides trauma awareness training for partners as well as delivering Trauma Awareness Training for Employers (TATE), helping organisations recognise and support staff experiencing trauma symptoms.

RAF Benevolent Fund

Charity Number: 1081009
Scottish Charity Number: SC038109

The RAF’s leading welfare charity, providing practical, financial and personal lifetime support to all members of the RAF family whether serving or veterans and their families.

Contact Information

http://www.rafbf.org
mail@rafbf.org.uk
67 Portland Place
London
W1B 1AR
020 7580 8343

Support Offered

Provides practical, financial and – in some cases – emotional support to all members of the RAF family, regardless of rank, from childhood through to old age.

Help with top-up care fees

Help with disability

Adaptations
Equipment
Mobility
Death and Disablement in Service

Housing assistance
Education costs
Financial Need

Property Repairs

Welfare breaks

Support for the serving RAF

“Airplay” Youth Support Project
Childcare centres
Benefits and Money Advice Service
free relationship counselling

RAF Families Federation (under RAFA)

Represents the views and concerns of RAF personnel and their families to those who can make a difference, for example senior RAF and MoD staff and Ministers. The RAF FF is outside the chain of command and can promise an independent and confidential service.

Contact Information

http://www.raf-ff.org.uk
enquiries@raf-ff.org.uk
13-15 St Georges Road
Wittering
Peterborough
PE8 6DL
01780 781650

Support Offered

Parented by the RAF Association under contract

Anyone whose life is directly affected by the fact that a family member is serving in the RAF is entitled to be represented by the RAF FF. Respective partner, spouse, children, parents and close relatives by blood/marriage/civil partnership are all included.

Reading Force

Charity Number: 1159890

1) To advance a culture of literacy in the home by encouraging families to read together for pleasure and talk about a book by providing advice and assistance and materials to support shared reading activities; and
2) To promote and protect good health and wellbeing by using reading as a means of mitigating stress and
increasing communication and good family relationships, particularly following separation due to training, deployment, postings and mobility

Contact Information

http://www.readingforce.org.uk/
info@readingforce.org.uk
10 Homersham Road
Kingston Upon Thames
KT1 3PN
07890 476311

Support Offered

RF is a simple, fun, free family shared reading initiative for Service families, Reservists, Cadets, Veterans and injured service personnel – spouses and partners, pre-school children through to young adults, extended family and grandparents.
We provide free books and special scrapbooks and encourage Service families to form an informal book group with their family and friends; choose, read, talk about a book, and fill in the free scrapbook.

Recruit for Spouses

Company Number: 7687397

Recruit for Spouses is the award winning social enterprise which has helped hundreds of military spouses find employment.

Contact Information

http://www.recruitforspouses.co.uk/
enquiries@recruitforspouses.co.uk
Hartham Park
Corsham
SN13 0RP
0333 2020 996

Support Offered

If you are an employer looking for reliable, resourceful staff, or a spouse looking for work we can help. Visit our website for more information

Rock2Recovery CIC

Company Number: 9422840

Rock2Recovery provides specialist intervention coaching that is non-clinical and free of charge to any member of the Armed Forces, veterans and close family members.
Rock2Recovery aims to provide this coaching within two weeks of a referral and can be provided for as long as the individual needs this support. However, clients are coached to independence.
Clients receive one session at first and then they have to ask for more. This way R2R only works with those who want to change.

Contact Information

http://www.rock2recovery.co.uk
Support@rock2recovery.co.uk
14 Hartley Road
Exmouth
EX8 2SG

Support Offered

R2R has 16 coaches nationwide and can provide both face-to-face and video coaching. Clients have direct access to their coach and R2R works at your pace. Sessions are long – typically 2 hours face-to-face and at least one hour by video.
Clients are not required to re-live trauma or any event that causes them immediate pain. Coaches will change the meaning clients are making about events in the past or what might happen in the future. If the meaning can be changed then the feeling will change.
There is no assessment as befits a non-clinical approach. If clients want help then they get help.
R2R cannot work with anyone who has a serious addiction dependency.

Rural Veterans Hubs (Kirklees)

Charity Number: 1204103

We hold two sessions per month (with ad hoc trips, meals out, education etc) and we are committed to supporting veterans and their families within the Kirklees rural community. We aim to provide social, services and sanctuary for military veterans. We provide indoor and outdoor projects, education with speakers on all manner of subjects from medical healthcare, (our local GPs were involved in setting these hubs up), history of the area, learning to do things, for example, cookery, wood whittling, wreath making, Jesmonite models. Our aim is to integrate some of our more vulnerable veterans back into society, with trips out, with doing some woodwork for a local school, art work. We have found that some of our veterans suffering with combat related PTSD are enjoying being with like-minded veterans and the more vulnerable are being looked after and are speaking freely with others about their trauma which is helping them tremendously. We have done questionnaires which shows we have got this right, with one veteran saying “we had saved his life”.

Contact Information

http://www.rvhkirklees.org/
Ruralveteranshubs@gmail.com
105 Stocks Way
Shepley
HD8 8DN
07394 630 371

Support Offered

We are fully supported by our local GPs and if we have a veteran we are worried about we can call that persons GP. (The GPs will then contact that veteran for a medicines review so that they can speak to the veteran and ascertain whether or not they need help). All our Trustees have had first aid training, MH training and some counselling (although we do not counsel our veterans).
We have regular talks from GPs, OTs, Physiotherapists, Advanced Nurse Practitioners and the aim is to ensure that our veterans do not miss out on their medical checks as the hubs were set up to address health inequalities in the rural areas of Huddersfield and veterans were seen to be the ones missing out.
We believe that whilst doing crafts etc our veterans are bonding with their colleagues and this is the time when they all get to speak about their ‘war experiences’. There is lots of banter and laughs.
We have veterans who are physically disabled as well as those with mental health problems, CPTSD, anxiety, depression, loneliness and some who are just there for the banter, talks and crafting sessions. Veterans are making new friends and with that comes the “If you need someone to go with you, Ill go with you” attitude, offering lifts and offering help with things that the more disabled veterans cannot do.
We liaise with the RBL, SSAFA if any of our veterans need help and support. We also liaise with the local council re: housing and in the past have used H4H for various activities.
The local social prescribers at our GP practices refer into us as do Walking with the Wounded and H4H.

Sailors’ Children’s Society

Charity Number: 224505

Children’s charity supporting Royal or Merchant Navy and Fishing Fleet families in severe financial hardship.

Contact Information

http://www.sailorschildren.org.uk
info@sailorschildren.org.uk
Newland
Cottingham Road
Hull
HU6 7RJ
01482 342331

Support Offered

The family support scheme provides child welfare grants, clothing and emergency grants.

Caravans available for a week’s holiday.

Emotional support and links to other support organisations.

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