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Personal Finance Soc (Forces MoneyPlan)

Company Number: 5084125

The Personal Finance Society (PFS) is the professional body for the financial planning profession in the UK and a part of the Chartered Insurance Institute.
In 2017 the PFS established a pro bono services called Forces MoneyPlan offering free generic financial guidance to Armed Forces personnel and Veterans. This free and confidential service is part of our commitment under the Armed Forces Covenant to help ensure that recipients are placed in a more informed position in respect of their overall financial well-being and less vulnerable to financial misinformation and scams.
Pro bono services are a key offering of most professions and an important part of our ongoing campaign to build trust amongst consumers and membership organisations. The PFS has offered free generic financial guidance via MoneyPlan (a joint initiative with Citizens Advice) for several years and Forces MoneyPlan is a targeted extension of this hugely successful brand initiative.

Contact Information

https://www.thepfs.org/about-us/initiatives/forces-moneyplan/
Lyn.new@thepfs.org
Personal Finance Society
42-48 High Road
South Woodford
E18 2JP
07900 226151

Support Offered

Forces Moneyplan offers a free, confidential one-off consultation (by phone, face to face or online) with a fully qualified and regulated financial adviser who is a member of the Personal Finance Society and compliant with the societies code of ethics. The financial adviser will provide what is known as generic financial guidance designed to help individuals identify and better understand their financial needs or specific financial issues, services and/or products and make better informed decisions as a result. It will not involve giving personal recommendations about the suitability of specific products or services or their sale or promotion, as this is what is known as regulated financial advice which is outwith the scope of this offering.
Currently Forces MoneyPlan is promoted by several organisations that work in partnership with the PFS . These include:
The Veterans Gateway – all forces veterans can access the service via:
www.thepfs.org/about-us/initiatives//forces-moneyplan/forces-veterans.
The OnCourse Foundation – members of this forces charity can access the service via: www.thepfs.org/about-us/initiatives/forces-moneyplan/on-course-foundation/
Blesma – members of this forces charity can access the service via:
www.thepfs.org/about-us/initiatives/forces-moneyplan/blesma/
The Forces Pension Society – members of this forces charity can access the service via:
www.thepfs/about-us/initiatives/forces-moenyplan/forces-pension-society/
We currently have capacity to work in partnership with additional members of Cobseo and look forward to expanding our service accordingly. If you would like to know more, please contact either Tony Miles (Forces MoneyPlan Project Manager) tony.miles@thepfs.org or Lyn New (Forces MoneyPlan Administrator) Lyn.new@thepfs.org

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.

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

Queen Victoria Seamen’s Rest

Charity Number: 1153185
Scottish Charity Number: 1106126
Company Number: 5218014

Established in 1843, the Queen Victoria Seamen’s Rest (QVSR) is a charity which provides accommodation and welfare support to active and retired seafarers, veterans of the armed forces and others in need.
QVSR seeks to support each resident to achieve lifestyle and personal development goals whether this is simple companionship, the development of leisure interests, training and employment or a move to more independent living.

Contact Information

http://www.qvsr.org.uk
enquiries@qvsr.org.uk
121-131 East India Dock Road
Poplar
E14 6DF

Support Offered

QVSR’s Welfare Team assists residents with benefit applications and access to individual grants as well as providing support with medical and emotional issues through signposting to appropriate organisations. QVSR aims to provide an environment where residents are able to rebuild their lives, regain their self-confidence and make the transition from homelessness to more
independent living.
QVSR’s facilities include en-suite bedroom accommodation, modern restaurant and evening coffee shop, TV lounges, Wi-fi, snooker and pool, gym, Chapel, multi-faith or “quiet room” and garden.

REACT Disaster Response Ltd

Charity Number: 1163214

REACT Disaster Response is a humanitarian rapid-response charity operating in the UK and overseas. We train and deploy volunteer Response Teams to emergencies and disasters to help save lives and alleviate suffering, particularly for hard-to-reach and vulnerable communities in the immediate aftermath of crises.

REACT is closely aligned to the Armed Forces community. Our volunteers are predominantly military veterans, alongside serving personnel, blue light professionals and other skilled individuals. We repurpose military experience in leadership, planning, logistics and problem-solving to provide practical surge capability in complex, fast-moving emergencies. Through deployments and training, we also offer veterans and service leavers a continued sense of purpose, structured teamwork and an opportunity to apply their skills in service of communities during times of greatest need.

Contact Information

http://www.re-act.org.uk/
info@re-act.org.uk
Rooms 4-11
First Floor, Building 8
Chilmark Estates,Chilmark
SP3 5DU

Support Offered

REACT’s support and expertise is highly relevant to the Armed Forces community and to multi-agency emergency response. We mobilise trained volunteers (predominantly military veterans, alongside blue light professionals and other skilled individuals) to bring disciplined planning, leadership, logistics and “can-do” problem-solving into fast-moving, high-pressure environments. We work in support of statutory responders and humanitarian partners, helping to close critical gaps quickly and effectively.

Support and expertise include:

• Shared situational awareness & rapid needs assessment – gathering and analysing information quickly to build a clear on-the-ground picture and inform priorities.
• Incident management & coordination support – practical support to planning, liaison and multi-agency coordination, strengthening response capacity where teams are stretched.
• Last-mile logistics – rapid, flexible logistics to move people, equipment and relief items into hard-to-reach locations when time and access are constrained.
• Surge and specialist operational capability – short-notice deployments to augment local responders and partners, including specialist capabilities such as flood response.
• Volunteer management support – helping partners organise, task and safely coordinate volunteers during emergencies, including spontaneous volunteer groups.
• Training, capacity and resilience-building – training and preparedness support that strengthens community and organisational resilience, while enabling veterans to maintain skills, purpose and team identity through meaningful service.

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.

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.

Royal Air Force Club

Charity Number: 1108295
Company Number: 05321353

Located in London’s Mayfair, The RAF Club is a historic private members club which offers luxurious and peaceful surroundings to serving and former serving officers of the RAF and Allied Air Forces.

Having opened its doors in 1922, the Club’s interior has been enhanced to its present high standard and with striking artwork, a specially designed stained glass window and the very unique RAF badge corridor, a truly fascinating history comes alive about the story of the Royal Air Force.

The Club aims to preserve and foster the esprit de corps and traditions of the Royal Air Force through its member events, accommodation, dining and high standard of affordable hospitality within central London.

Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II is the Club’s Patron and Lord Craig of Radley is the Club’s Vice-Patron.

Contact Information

http://www.rafclub.org.uk
info@rafclub.org.uk
128 Piccadilly
London
W1J 7PY
020 7399 1000

Support Offered

By establishing, maintaining and conducting in London, on premises belonging to the Company, a central residential and non-residential club for the use and accommodation of Members, and by making available to them such other services, recreational facilities and leisure time activities as may be desirable, at prices which, so far as is possible, can be afforded by all Members

Royal Air Forces Association (RAFA)

Charity Number: 226686
Scottish Charity Number: SC037673

For over 90 years, the RAF Association have championed a simple belief – that no member of the RAF community should ever be left without the help that they need. Providing friendship, help and support for the whole RAF family. Incorporating RAF Families Federation representing the concerns of RAF personnel.

Contact Information

http://www.rafa.org.uk
RAF Association Headquarters
Atlas House
41 Wembley Road,Leicester
LE3 1UT
0800 0182 361

Support Offered

Support offered to the youngest recruit right through to the oldest veteran.

Advice on sources of financial help, war pensions and Armed Forces Compensation Scheme.
Connections for Life telephone friendship, respite breaks, sheltered housing and holiday homes.

Help and support regarding mental wellbeing, dementia & care.

Exciting range of volunteering opportunities.

Support for the serving RAF including contact houses, station WIFI & RAFA Kidz nurseries.

Royal Artillery Centre for Personal Development

Charity Number: 1111106
Company Number: 5454676

Providing nationally recognised civilian qualifications to Service personnel, and the wider defence community including veterans and dependants.
From a qualification in teaching to an award in digital skills, we offer over a variety of civilian vocational and professional qualifications to improve the skills and knowledge of serving personnel, and in preparation for their next career.

Contact Information

http://www.racpd.org.uk
info@racpd.org.uk
RA Barracks
Larkhill
Salisbury
SP4 8QT

Support Offered

We have Learning Centres all over England, as well as opportunities for work-based and online learning.
• Some courses are free or subsidised and, as an approved MOD ELC provider, serving and retired personnel can use their learning credits to offset the cost of the courses.

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