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Never Such Innocence

Charity Number: 1156148
Company Number: 8680319

Never Such Innocence provides children and young people the opportunity to share their thoughts on conflict through poetry, art, speech and song writing.
We hold Workshops, Community Roadshow events and hold an Annual International Competition. We provide powerful platforms for young people to have their voices heard.

Contact Information

http://www.neversuchinnocence.com
enquiries@neversuchinnocence.com
11 Slingsby Pl
WC2E 9AB
0207 836 2603

Support Offered

Our Voices of Armed Forces Children Programme invites service and veteran children, aged 6-18, to use the arts to share what it means to be a service child of the Royal Navy, Army or RAF. We focus on peer to peer empathy on service life, working with both service children and their families.

Officers’ Association Scotland

Charity Number: SC010665
Scottish Charity Number: SC010665

Provision of employment and career transition services for serving and former officers; relief of distress among former regular or reserve officers and their dependants. Applicants must be resident in Scotland at the time of their initial application or have been members of a Scottish Regiment.

Contact Information

http://www.oascotland.org.uk
New Haig House
Logie Green Road
Edinburgh
EH7 4HR
0131 550 1575 / 1581

Support Offered

Direct financial assistance, one-off and annual grants, vocational training grants and business start-up loans.

Employment and career transition services to serving and former officers.

Officers’ Association

Charity Number: 201321

Dedicated exclusively to supporting officers, ex-officers and their dependants. Including provision of employment services, financial and welfare support. Works in close collaboration with other charities.

Collocated with The Soldier’s Charity, RFEA and the Haig Housing Trust and Cobseo.

Contact Information

http://www.officersassociation.org.uk
info@officersassociation.org.uk
40 Caversham Road
Reading
RG1 7BT
020 7808 4160

Support Offered

Short and long term financial help and advice for ex-officers and their families, throughout their lives.

Access to residential homes for disabled and single persons.

Employment support and job finding for officers and ex-officers throughout their working lives. Part of MoD Career Transition Partrnership.

On Course Foundation

Charity Number: 1136618
Company Number: 7267733

OCF provides long-term benefits for wounded, injured and sick Servicemen and women and former Service personnel through the medium of golf. It provides golf familiarisation, skills and employment training, and facilitates work experience placements and full-time employment opportunities.

Contact Information

http://www.oncoursefoundation.com
info@oncoursefoundation.com
28 Falstaff House
Bardolph Road
Richmond
TW9 2LH
020 8334 2010

Support Offered

OCF offers confidence-building practical training and contributes to long-term development plans, which are key elements of the physical and psychological recovery process and transition to civilian life.

Operation Christmas Box

Charity Number: 1112260
Company Number: 5523632

To provide gifts to the UK Armed Forces, principally but not exclusively, Christmas Boxes to every Royal Marine, Sailor, Soldier, Airman, Airwoman and officer serving unaccompanied overseas on Christmas Day and away from their families and friends.

Contact Information

http://www.operationchristmasbox.org
charles.wookey@operationchristmasbox.org
Castle Hill Barns
New Hill
Hough on the Hill
NG32 2AZ

Support Offered

Principally Christmas Boxes but Operation Christmas Box has been asked by the MOD to intervene on other occasions and has provided fleece blankets to the Role 3 Medical Facility in Camp Bastion and beach towels to the De-compression Team in Cyprus. We are willing to consider other similar ideas if the need is supported by PJHQ (J1) and the MOD Service Personnel Support Team.

Pain Association Scotland

Scottish Charity Number: SC014486

To provide self-management for those burdened with chronic pain via monthly group meetings or by one-to-one sessions by arrangement.

Contact Information

www.painassociation.co.uk
info@painassociation.com
Suite D
Moncrieffee Business Centre
Friarton Road,Perth
PH2 8DG
0800 783 6059

Support Offered

Providing valuable tools helping veterans manage their pain more effectively on a day-to-day basis and help lead an improved quality of life.

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

Poppy Factory, The

Charity Number: 225348
Company Number: 00204405

The country’s leading employment charity for veterans with health conditions or impairments.

The Poppy Factory provides bespoke opportunities and ongoing employment support for hundreds of disabled veterans around the country, helping to restore their financial independence through sustainable and rewarding work.

Contact Information

http://www.poppyfactory.org
Administrator@poppyfactory.org
20 Petersham Road
Richmond
TW10 6UR
020 8940 3305

Support Offered

A regional team of career experts work with employers to help veterans with health challenges into rewarding and sustainable work.

Consultants work with each veteran to create a personal career plan, give free CV and interview training, and source local job opportunities with supportive employers. A network of volunteer mentors and ongoing in-work support ensures that Poppy Factory ‘clients’ thrive in their new workplace.

Any veteran with a physical or mental health condition can register, as long as they are no longer being supported through the Career Transition Partnership as part of their resettlement. The Poppy Factory’s Getting You Back To Work service has already helped hundreds of disabled veterans into meaningful and sustainable work.

Twitter: @PoppyFactory
Facebook: The Poppy Factory

Poppyscotland (Earl Haig Fund Scotland)

Scottish Charity Number: SC014096
Company Number: 194893

Poppyscotland provides life-changing support to the Armed Forces community.

Contact Information

http://www.poppyscotland.org.uk
New Haig House
Logie Green Road
Edinburgh
EH7 4HR

Support Offered

Money raised from the Scottish Poppy Appeal and Poppyscotland’s year-round fundraising enables them to deliver support to members of the Armed Forces community in Scotland by providing tailored funding and assistance. The charity also funds services in advice, employment, housing, mental health, mobility and respite.

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