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RHQ MPSC
Berechurch Hall Camp
Colchester
CO2 9NU
Berechurch Hall Camp
Colchester
CO2 9NU
Military vs Cancer exists to support members of the Armed Forces community affected by cancer—past and present service personnel, their families, and dependents. We provide direct financial assistance, practical support, and respite opportunities, ensuring no one in our community faces cancer alone. Through fundraising events, partnerships, and awareness campaigns, we aim to deliver help with dignity, compassion, and urgency when it’s needed most.
Military vs Cancer provides vital support to members of the Armed Forces community affected by cancer. Our services include direct financial assistance for treatment-related costs, travel and accommodation support, the provision of cosmetic apparel, respite breaks, and funeral support. We also offer emotional and peer support via our network, working closely with families during and after diagnosis. Our expertise lies in rapidly responding to individual needs with empathy, flexibility, and discretion—ensuring that those who serve or have served are not left to face cancer alone.
Families of service personnel move around frequently and it can often be tough to put down roots or make new friends, particularly when loved ones are away for long periods of time.
Research shows that singing in a choir helps to alleviate stress and contributes to an improvement in isolation, anxiety and depression. The Military Wives Choirs therefore have a vital role to play by bringing women in the military community together to sing.
As a registered charity, the Military Wives Choirs is now made up of a network of 75 choirs and more than 2300 members based across the UK and in British military bases abroad, including Cyprus, Belgium, Germany and the Netherlands. Choirs are tri-service and not just open to wives of serving personnel – anyone with a military connection can join, empowering women from across the military community.
Every new posting for women in the military community is as daunting as it is exciting, but knowing that you have a choir to go to in your new location where you know the songs and even some of the people can be a real lifeline. That’s why, whilst each local choir has its own identity, all are run in a very similar way with shared music, a fun and friendly ethos and lots of ‘cross-network’ projects and activities.
The Military Wives Choirs is an independent charity and subsidiary of SSAFA, the Armed Forces Charity. As part of the SSAFA family, the Military Wives Choirs work side by side SSAFA’s mission to relieve need, suffering and distress amongst the Armed Forces, veterans and their families in order to support their independence and dignity as a charity run by, for and with women in the military community.
By supporting the Military Wives Choirs, you are helping women in the military community to sing, share and support one another and feel stronger together.
We bring women in the military community closer together through singing.
Our members help one another through the bad times, celebrate the good times and all of us sing our way through it together.
We welcome women, from serving personnel’s partners to veterans’ wives, from those who work in their local military community to those who serve in the military.
Wherever we are in the world, the choirs give each of us a chance to make a difference where we live.
To aid in the recovery and rehabilitation of those affected by military operations by providing opportunities through Motorsport.
We have two formal roles to Defence:
In the coordination and provision of motor sport as a recovery activity
As Relationship Managers to the automotive industry for vocational opportunities for the wounded, injured and sick
Our output is in three areas.
Experience – Firstly, in the provision of days out, privileged access to big events and in a first hand, front seat, white knuckle introduction to an exciting and engaging sport.
Competition – The preparation, development, coaching and teamwork involved in competition is a hugely cathartic experience. By engaging in sprints, hill climbs, track racing, and rallying we engender a real team ethos. It is about much more than just the driving – car and boat preparation, logistics, support and race management all present challenges to be overcome. This can greatly help in the rebuilding of an individual’s confidence and provides emotional as well as practical support, and we are chock full of examples of where that is exactly the case – where participation in motorsport is changing lives for the better.
Vocation – Mission Motorsport provides a range of training courses and educational opportunities to suit the needs of individuals. These range from one day basic car maintenance courses at our workshop near Tedworth House; to a Modular Motorsport Foundation course culminating in a residential placement working with a major race team
We are a mental health charity that offers psychological and psychosocial supports the Armed Forces Community, families and carers through counselling and mental health intervention. We provide a single point of access to counselling and support through a range of psychological therapy services and mental health treatments that are tailored to individual’s unique needs.
We provide 1 to 1 counselling, family counselling, group counselling, and various mental health workshops including a “Resilience to Civilian Life” programme which helps veterans with their transition into the civilian world, and the “Lakeside Project” which provides counselling and mental health services at a beautiful location in the heart of a nature reserve for those who do not feel comfortable in a traditional, clinical counselling setting.
Our services our delivered both in person, by telephone, and online.
We also operate a drop-in service 3 days per week and have a 24/7 helpline for immediate support and crisis intervention.
Mental health is a crucial element in our lives, interconnected with everything we do and everything we are, which is why our team at Mode Rehabilitation strive to make a positive difference in each person’s life and to provide services that improve mental well-being, quality of life, and generate resilient communities.
Links for testimonials and a video of our premises:
Mode Rehabilitation Premises: https://youtu.be/tc2ENJiGv0I
Testimonial Video: https://youtu.be/SduRZpg6nZ4
Monday – Friday 0800 – 17000 Saturdays 0800 – 1600
The Armed Forces Multiple Sclerosis Support Group – A National Support Group of the MS Society “Supporting Members of the Military family affected by MS”
Advice and assistance in applying for state benefits, war pensions, AFCS and grants from other sources.
Residential weekends with health-workers.
The National Army Museum (NAM) is a Royal Chartered Museum and classified as an Executive Non-Departmental Public Body (‘ENDPB’) whose Sponsor Branch is the Ministry of Defence. The Museum is a registered Charity No: 237902
Mission: To tell the story of Our Army and the people who have served in it. To inspire, engage and educate, through our world class Museum and Collections.
The Museum tells the story of Our Army and the people who have served in it by interpreting and communicating through our world class Museum and the objects in the Museum’s care in ways which inspire, engage and educate. By so doing, show the impact of the British Army on the making of Britain from the Middle Ages to the present day and on the role of Britain in the World. The Museum’s collections include un-rivalled historical archives of stories and papers of soldiers and noted service personnel, service records of disbanded Irish regiments, service records, firearms and medals
The NGVFA provides practical support and help to veterans and their families and our aim is to improve the quality of the day to day lives of those who have been affected by the 1990-91 and 2003 Gulf conflicts, as well as the present Afghanistan and all other future desert conflicts. We also help veterans from other conflicts that are in need of our advice and support.
Welfare and advocacy
Tribunal representation
Fact sheets and guides
The Oasis Times – A quarterly newsletter
Website – with a members only area
A Facebook group
Respite break – A yearly five day respite break for veterans and their families
Welcome pack for new members
VIPA – (Veteran’s Information and Personal Archive) is a bespoke database collating unique information and statistical data regarding veterans from desert conflicts.
To gain publicity and official recognition of our service.
To be awarded a Medal for our National Service, a ‘Conscript’s Medal’ indicating the theatre of our service. Nb: Now agreed to be that of the ‘NDM’ the National Defence Medal to be awarded to all H M Armed forces personnel who served in Defence of the realm.
To have those genuinely suffering in any way through their service appropriately compensated by the Government. To campaign for adequate State Retirement Pension.
To lobby Central and Local Government to erect memorial/s, and or other tangible commemorative devices to our dead.
To seek the establishment of exhibits within museums and other organisations to depict National Service.
To foster reunions of the National Servicemen.
Comradeship and common interest
To support seafarers, retired seafarers and their dependants who are in need through sickness, incapacity, disablement, unemployment , low income or other need.
Mariners’ Park in Wallasey provides a range of services.
Independent accommodation in 113 houses, bungalows and apartments.
32 place residential and nursing home, which can also provide respite care.
On site Home Care Service.
Communal facilities including café, gym, hobby room and laundry.
The Charity also provides financial support through regular grants and one off grants for essential items.
The Charity also offers a Caseworker Service providing advice on benefits and services. This is available in Merseyside, Hull and Grimsby and Southampton and Portsmouth areas.
Afghanistan support
In light of recent events in Afghanistan, please find information and support resources here