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Charity Number: 1152978

Give Us Time is a small, niche service charity that focuses exclusively on the military family. As a charity we provide free holiday accommodation to veterans and serving personnel and their families, as well as the families of those who have lost their lives due to military service. The holidays we provide – from a night in London, a weekend break in the country, or a week’s holiday in the sun – facilitate reconnection and readjustment to family life following long periods of separation due to operational deployment. As well as individual family holidays, we also run group holidays for those families who live, work and serve together. Give Us Time relies on donations of time from the owners of holiday groups, hotels, holiday homes and timeshares and puts them to good use. We believe that to have happy service personnel you need happy service families.

The Charity’s objects are: to support armed forces personnel, their families and veterans through such charitable means as the trustees think fit and in particular: (a) to support the morale of armed forces personnel by giving support to their family units; (b) to assist service families, especially, but not exclusively those who have suffered loss or injury; (c) to help both armed forces personnel and their families make the transition from military to civilian life; and to relieve serving and former members of the armed forces and their dependants who are in need by virtue of their physical or mental health or their economic circumstances.

Contact Information

https://giveustime.org.uk/
enquiries@giveustime.org.uk
73 Great Tichfield Street
London
W1W 6RD
02074708877

Support Offered

Give Us Time aims to provide holidays for both serving and veteran military personnel and their families from across the British Armed Forces. As a charity we mainly provide free holiday accommodation and ask the service family to cover travel, insurance and other holiday expenses. However, we also organise group holidays which are usually fully sponsored by the property donor and/or regimental group sponsoring the Service families attending the trip.

Charity Number: 1184175

To provide a community for Glider Pilot veterans, their relatives and those with a connection to the Regiment. To relieve GPR veterans who are in need by reason of their age, ill health, or disability, or social, or financial circumstances or other disadvantage and in the case of bereavement of a veteran, to provide non-financial support to relieve the distress of their families. To educate the public about the history of the regiment. Organising annual Glider Pilot Regiment memorials and commemorations both at home and internationally.

Contact Information

http://www.gliderpilotregiment.org.uk
info@gliderpilotregiment.org.uk
28 Scotch Orchard
LICHFIELD
WS13 6DE

Support Offered

The Glider Pilot Regiment Society supports 16 veteran Glider Pilots from WWII onwards, maintaining as little or as much contact and support as requested or needed. We have for many years had a befriending scheme that keeps in regular contact via phone/email and letters from the trustees, and all our veterans appreciate and look forward to the contact. As well as providing friendship and society updates, we can offer any non-medical support that our veterans or their carers may need.

Charity Number: 1124508
Company Number: 6543150

Employment & Enterprise – we provide training, coaching and job brokerage support as well as creating transitional employment opportunities for people with criminal convictions within our social enterprises. We provide specialist services for particular groups led by people with lived experience.

Community engagement
Landscape design and build
Early intervention to support health and wellbeing
Safe and sustainable business support
Youth focused coaching, training and leadership programmes

Contact Information

https://www.groundwork.org.uk/Sites/msstt
greatermanchester@groundwork.org.uk
Trafford Ecology Park
Lake Road
Trafford Park,Manchester
M17 1TU

Support Offered

Operation Re-org is the area of our work that has specific relevance to the military community. Operation Re-Org is our ex-military skills for employment programme; it helps veterans who have struggled to find permanent employment because of difficult personal circumstances such as physical injuries, mental health problems, substance misuse issues, homelessness or having a criminal record.

We work with local forces charities to identify veterans who may benefit from our help. The programme, which is led by Terry Morley, a veteran who served with the 1st Battalion King’s Regiment, includes:
– Personalised assessment to identify support needed and establish goals
– Intensive 1-1 mentoring, support and training to build skills and confidence
– Development of a ‘working mind-set’ – essential workplace behaviours
– Job brokerage services to support people into job vacancies followed with 6 months in work support
– Bespoke training packages to support veterans back in to employment including accredited qualifications e.g. health and safety, first aid and CSCS.

The aim of the programme is for veterans to progress into sustained employment and gain long-lasting positive changes in their personal circumstances as a result of having a regular salary and routine, the opportunity to learn new skills, increased social interaction and improvements in confidence and feelings of self-worth.

We also provide additional IAG support services and work with a wide range of employers in the public and private sector to help them recruit armed forces veterans into their workforce.

We are also a specialist provider of employment focused support services for people that have a criminal record, including through the gate support for people that have served a custodial sentence.

Charity Number: 1125556
Scottish Charity Number: SC040058
Company Number: 06593129

Haig Housing Trust is proud to have served the British Veteran community for over 100 years. As the leading housing provider for ex-Service personnel in the UK, the charity owns over 1,500 properties across 50 locations.

The Trust assists eligible Veterans and their families who are in housing need, whether they are transitioning into civilian life or are simply in need of a helping hand.

Haig offers a mix of family-sized and smaller houses, flats and maisonettes on small, well-managed estates. These communities range in size from as small as six properties to our largest estate in Morden, South London, with 350 homes.

Contact Information

http://www.haighousing.org.uk
enquiries@haighousing.org.uk
Mountbarrow House
12 Elizabeth Street
London
SW1W 9RB
0208 685 5777

Support Offered

Provision of general needs housing for rent across the UK.

Guidance about housing and signposting to other Veterans charities which can assist those in housing need.

The Trust also provides a small number of joint purchase properties for severely wounded or injured Service personnel and Veterans.

Charity Number: 1148155

They provide a ‘Service of Care’ for veterans who for whatever reason find themselves vulnerable and living rough.

Contact Information

https://help4homelessveterans.org/
help4homelessveterans@gmail.com
11A Regent Street South
Barnsley
S70 2HT
07586777856

Support Offered

“Our mission is to source and provide accommodation to Ex Service Personnel who are living rough or in unsatisfactory accommodation”.

Charity Number: 1136671
Company Number: 07065815

Heropreneurs is a registered charity that has been created by successful entrepreneurs for the benefit of new entrepreneurs. Heropreneurs helps anyone, or their families, who has served in the Armed Forces on the commercial creation of a business and its future growth strategy. It is also increasingly being asked to help more established businesses on their future strategy.

Contact Information

http://www.heropreneurs.co.uk/
team@heropreneurs.co.uk
2 High Street
Mildenhall
Bury St Edmunds
IP28 7EJ
020 7193 4128 

Support Offered

To date Heropreneurs has helped create more than 100 new businesses and there are currently more than 20 taking part in our Mentoring Programme.

Our Mentoring Programme, led by our Chairman Peter Mountford, helps new businesses with their initial strategies. This includes:

• Whether or not the business is a sensible commercial proposition
• An assessment of the likely Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats for the business
• Advice on the creation of a Business Plan
• Advice on the Marketing Strategy of the business
• A review of the Financial Strategy of the new business
• Access to the extensive network of contacts of Heropreneurs
• Advice on funding sources if required
• The possibility of Heropreneurs investing in the business

All Mentors have a clearly demonstrated success record in their industry, so they are well qualified for their role.

Occasionally, Heropreneurs invests in the new businesses that it helps.

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.

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

Charity Number: 1144661
Company Number: 07295751

We offer emotional and practical support to families facing challenging and complex needs, often finding family life overwhelming. Underpinning our work is the nurture and protection of children and the improved resilience of the family.

Our weekly home-visiting service provides free and confidential outreach support to families in their own homes, delivered by trained and supervised volunteers who are carefully ‘matched’ with the families they help. Through our support, we equip families to develop life skills in order to realise their full potential and make the best of their opportunities.

Contact Information

http://
info@hshants.org.uk
Wickham Community Centre
Mill Lane
Wickham,Hampshire
PO17 5AL

Support Offered

Home-Start Hampshire has an established history of supporting families in the Armed Forces, meeting the discrete needs of both serving and veteran families ensuring the best possible outcomes for children and families. By supporting families early on, we give children the chance to grow up with prospects rather than problems.

We provide practical and emotional support for Armed Forces Families who are experiencing isolation and loneliness, those who are disadvantaged through lack of community integration or frequent changes in education settings, and those disadvantaged through poor physical, emotional and mental health.

The one-to-one support is tailored to the families’ needs and is often supplemented by an opportunity to attend group activities and parenting courses. Our primary aim is to keep families together, prevent crisis or possible family breakdown and prevent the need for welfare or statutory intervention.

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