To provide a mulit-disciplinary approach for the care and rehabilitation of those with neurological and medical disabilities – predominantly those who have served with HM Forces.
Residential nursing and rehabilitation care for physically disabled ex-Service personnel.
CESSAC has been operating amenity centres for serving members of the Armed Forces and their families in establishments at home and abroad for over 125 years. It branched out into managing sheltered housing for retired ex-HM forces people and their family members in southern England over 40 years ago through its sister organisation CESSA HA. Both organisations are managed from the Head Office in Portsmouth and share the website. The CofE in each title simply reflects the ethos of the founders and Directors – delivery has always been to those of all religions and none.
CESSAC provides a number of homely, welcoming alcohol-free cafes for serving Armed Forces Personnel and their families in Cyprus, Germany, Falklands & UK
CESSA HA manages sheltered housing schemes for ex-Service personnel & their families over age 60 – 6 schemes are in the Portsmouth area, mostly for those from any Service, with 2 others only for former naval service personnel in Greenwich & Saltash (those owned by Greenwich Hospital)
Charlie Charlie One is dedicated to promoting the health and well-being of British Armed Forces personnel, veterans and their families, offering guidance, peer support and connections to essential cancer services and resources for those facing cancer diagnoses.
Charlie Charlie One (CC1) is a UK-wide military charity dedicated to supporting serving Armed Forces personnel, veterans and their families who are affected by cancer.
Founded in 2021, CC1 provides compassionate, confidential peer support, recognising the unique challenges faced by members of the Armed Forces community when dealing with a cancer diagnosis, treatment and recovery.
Our strength lies in our network of dedicated volunteers, many of whom have personal experience of military life and cancer. This shared understanding enables us to provide empathetic, practical and meaningful support to individuals and families during what can be an incredibly difficult time.
Our support includes:
One-to-one peer support: Providing a listening ear, reassurance and ongoing emotional support through telephone calls, text messages and email.
Buddy support: Connecting beneficiaries with volunteers who understand the challenges of living with cancer within the military community.
Information and signposting: Helping individuals access appropriate specialist services, charities and organisations for additional practical, emotional or financial assistance.
Support for families: Recognising that a cancer diagnosis affects the wider family and offering compassionate support to loved ones.
Ongoing contact: Maintaining supportive relationships throughout diagnosis, treatment, recovery and beyond, according to individual needs.
CC1 works alongside other military and cancer support organisations, including referral partners, to ensure beneficiaries can access appropriate help when they need it.
With a growing nationwide volunteer network, our approach is personal, flexible and centred on the individual. We understand the importance of military camaraderie and the difference that speaking to someone with shared experiences can make.
Our mission is simple: to ensure that no member of the Armed Forces community affected by cancer feels they have to face it alone.
To provide recreational and other leisure time facilities for serving members of the Royal Navy, the Royal Marines, the Royal Fleet Auxiliary, or the Maritime Reserve and their families, and other specified classes including ex-serving members of the Royal Navy and the Royal Marines, and serving members of the Army or the Royal Air Force, attached to or embedded with Royal Navy units.
Extensive health & leisure facilities including a golf course, accommodation, function rooms and Woodland Adventure Golf.
Citizens Advice Rushmoor exists to ensure everyone can access the advice, support and opportunities they need to move forward with confidence. We provide free, confidential and impartial advice, helping people overcome immediate challenges while tackling the underlying causes of disadvantage. From our base in Aldershot, we have developed a strong reputation for supporting serving personnel, veterans and their families, working collaboratively with military charities, public services and community organisations to strengthen the wellbeing and resilience of the Armed Forces community.
We deliver expert advice and practical support across welfare benefits, debt, housing, employment, consumer rights, immigration and wider social welfare issues, combining accredited specialist advice with holistic casework for people facing complex challenges.
Citizens Advice Portsmouth has recently merged with Havant and Gosport branches to become Citizens Advice Solent East (CASE). We are a local charity dedicated to providing free, confidential, and impartial advice to residents of Portsmouth, Havant and Gosport. Our mission is to empower individuals by helping them navigate and overcome a wide variety of challenges, including debt, housing, benefits, employment, and consumer rights. We are part of the larger Citizens Advice network, committed to promoting equality, challenging discrimination, and influencing social policy for positive change. We collaborate with local governments and other organisations to address the root causes of issues and enhance the overall well-being of our community. For 85 years, we have offered guidance to help people overcome their challenges and advocated on major issues when their voices need to be heard, working to create a fairer and more just society for everyone.
Services offered include:
• Access to Justice – a service to help people challenge housing decisions and benefits appeals.
• Armed Forces Covenant – providing broad help and support to veterans, serving members of the armed forces and their families.
• Generalist advice – a limited service provided by volunteers offering a face to face drop in, email or phone based general advice and signposting.
• Help to Claim – a support service focussing on benefits with help and ongoing support to make a claim for Universal Credit.
• Home & Well – a referral only service for clients who have recently been discharged from hospital or at risk of hospitalisation, to ensure vulnerable clients can remain safe and well in their home. Funded by energy and utility companies. Help with financial, employment, benefits, and housing concerns.
• Macmillan – for those affected by cancer, offering help, advice and support with benefits, money matters, debts, pensions, insurance, employment, housing, charitable grants and more.
• Money and Pensions Service – a service providing specialist debt advice and casework for people seeking to resolve their known debt issues and formal / informal debt solutions.
• Work Out Your Money – focusing on money management, to help improve knowledge, skills, and confidence with budgeting, borrowing and debt.
• Older Persons Service – offering additional assistance to over 65s with debt, benefits, consumer, employment, housing and more.
• SAIAS – a social enterprise specialist immigration advice service offering low cost or free immigration advice and support.
Combat Stress is the UK’s leading charity for veterans’ mental health. The charity focusses on delivering specialist treatment and support to veterans with complex mental health issues – those who have several severe mental health conditions arising from military service.
They believe that military trauma shouldn’t destroy the lives of veterans and their families.
Combat Stress Helpline
Our helpline is available to the entire Armed Forces community — including veterans, serving personnel, and their families.
Call: 0800 138 1619
Text: 07537 173683 (standard charges may apply)
Email: helpline@combatstress.org.uk
The helpline operates 24 hours a day, 365 days a year.
For general information and enquiries, please call 01372 587 000 or email contactus@combatstress.org.uk.
For more information visit: http://www.combatstress.org.uk
Combat Stress’ specialist treatment is available across the UK – with teams in Belfast, Inverness, Glasgow, Edinburgh, Surrey, the Midlands and the Northwest.
The vast majority of the charity’s specialist services are now provided online, as it removes geographical and logistical barriers to receiving treatment. Where required, this online provision is complemented by in-person outpatient appointments and community services including peer support, and treatment on a residential basis.
Treatment is tailored to each individual’s specific needs, and includes psychiatric and psychological treatment; substance misuse management; art therapy; occupational therapy; peer support; family support; online self-help materials and a 24-hour Helpline.
The Commonwealth War Graves Foundation (CWGF) is the charitable arm of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission (CWGC) and was founded in 2017 with the purpose of engaging and educating people, especially younger generations, with the ongoing work of the CWGC and the stories of those who served and died in the First and Second World Wars. Our aim is to ensure the memories of the fallen live on by supporting education, outreach, and innovative projects that connect communities with the global heritage of remembrance and bring their stories to life.
The CWGC was founded by Royal Charter in 1917 and has been commemorating more than 1.7 million First and Second World War dead for over 100 years. The CWGF was founded in 2017 and supports the expertise of the CWGC in sharing the stories of the individuals commemorated by the CWGC by funding educational and engagement projects and initiatives which include talks, guided tours, international education opportunities, maintaining and preserving scattered war graves, heritage initiatives and community projects.
The Defence Gardens Scheme (DGS) is a national network of gardens which host the delivery and evaluation of nature-based therapy for Armed Forces Service Leavers and Veterans and their Families.
The Defence Gardens Scheme (DGS) works in partnership with veterans’ charities, military units, community mental health service providers and gardening projects to develop, deliver and evaluate nature-based therapy.
The network is based on a ‘Hub and Spoke’ model of community-based mental health care. The Hub gardens deliver and evaluate the 10-week DGS Programme, also delivered within prison to Veterans within the Criminal Justice System. The Spoke gardens are part of a local community to ensure continuation of support.
To increase access and outreach DGS has developed one-day Cultivate and Connect Workshops and Wellbeing Walks, offering all members of the Armed Forces Community the opportunity to learn about and immerse themselves in nature.
Afghanistan support
In light of recent events in Afghanistan, please find information and support resources here