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STEPWAY

Charity Number: 1186465

To promote and improve mental health awareness and suicide reduction among veterans and family members of the British armed forces living in England and Wales, for the public benefit by preventing them from becoming socially excluded. relieving the dynamic needs with the provision of support services, events, activities, and courses, which promote a sense of belonging and purpose in civilian life.

Contact Information

http://www.stepway.org/
info@stepway.org
The Trinity
Worcester
WR1 2PN
01905 745 253

Support Offered

STEPWAY deliver three main support services.
· 7-step civilian skills program – A course built round mental health awareness, survival kit for civilian life, health body health mind, leading to employment and educational opportunities.
· Banter and Brew sessions – A drop-in service for veterans and family members to have a free breakfast, join in with activities like, art sessions, walk and talk, and table tennis. guest speakers monthly. Working with a variety of organisations and charities for warm referrals.
· The Community Projects – A safe place for the veteran and wider community to visit and take part in activities including: How to grow your own produce at home, Beekeeping, Mushroom farm, Bushcraft and Archery.
These three services are delivered throughout Worcestershire Gloucestershire and the West Midlands. Replicated services for the Prison in-reach Programme at HMP Oakwood and HMP Hewell and supporting the families on the outside.

STUBS

Charity Number: 1128980
Company Number: 6817457

Assist the most seriously wounded with rehabilitation and social reintegration.

Contact Information

http://www.stubs.org.uk/
craig.vassie@stubs.org.uk
Langley House
Tudor Road
Hazlemere,High Wycombe
HP15 7PA
01494 811 500

Support Offered

STUBS regularly hosts in-patients from DMRC Headley Court at Sports events such as Premiership Rugby matches at The Stoop, Twickenham.

Suffolk Family Carers

Charity Number: 1069937
Company Number: 3507600

Caring can be extremely complicated. The maze of rights and entitlements can be complicated. Filling in paperwork can be complicated. Trying to organise a break can be complicated. Our feelings about caring can certainly be complicated.

We’re here to make sure that no matter how complicated your query or your experience, you don’t have to care alone.
99% of family carers felt that Suffolk Family Carers listened, and gave them information and advice to empower them to make informed decisions about their caring role.

We provide innovative services, often ahead of the field. Our work with young carers is now long established and well respected in over 90 schools and colleges across Suffolk.
We have support workers in all the main hospitals across Suffolk, and GP surgeries in West & East Suffolk, to identify and support family carers.
Our work within the sphere of mental health and wellbeing is considered exemplary by family carers and practitioners alike. Signposting to relevant agencies and providing positive opportunities to meet others in a similar situation, share viewpoints and discuss different strategies.

Contact Information

http://suffolkfamilycarers.org/
hello@suffolkfamilycarers.org
Unit 9
Hillview Business Park
Old Ipswich Road,Claydon
IP6 0AJ

Support Offered

Suffolk Family Carers provides a wide range of support to unpaid family carers of all ages across Suffolk, helping them manage the emotional, practical and logistical challenges of caring. Our services are designed to ensure carers feel visible, valued, supported and connected.

1. Information, Advice and Guidance
– Offering comprehensive information and advice to help carers understand their rights, access support, and navigate complex systems such as health, social care, and benefits.
– Information Line handles more than 10,000 queries a year, providing tailored advice and practical solutions.

2. Emotional and Wellbeing Support
– Emotional support for family carers, recognising that caring can be isolating and emotionally complex. This includes wellbeing services regarded as exemplary by carers and practitioners.
– Support includes opportunities to meet others in similar situations, share experiences, and learn strategies for managing challenges.

3. Support in Hospitals and the Community
– Suffolk Family Carers has support workers based across major hospitals in Suffolk and in community locations across East and West Suffolk. These teams identify carers early and provide on the spot support.

4. Young Carer and Young Adult Carer Services
– Support for children and young people who care for family members, working in over 90 schools and colleges across Suffolk.
– They also support young adult carers aged 16–24 with tailored advice, training and opportunities.

6. Mental Health and Neurodivergent Support
– Specialist mental health and wellbeing support, signposting to relevant agencies and offering positive opportunities for peer connection.
– Neurodivergent (ND) Project, offering support, workshops and condition specific courses for carers.

7. Education, Training and Courses
– Educational programmes and training to help carers develop skills, better manage their caring responsibilities, and understand relevant conditions or systems.

8. Social Groups, Support Groups and Community Activities
– Support groups and social programmes that help carers build networks, reduce isolation, and access peer support.

9. Breaks and Respite Support
– Respite pass schemes are available to help carers take breaks from their responsibilities, supporting their own health and wellbeing.

Serving Suffolk Families Past & Present:

Suffolk Family Carers also delivers dedicated support through its Serving Suffolk Families work, focusing on the unique needs of family carers in the Armed Forces community living in Suffolk. This programme ensures that forces families—who often face mobility, separation, and increased emotional pressures—are identified, supported, and connected with the right services.

Support is offered to anyone in the armed forces community who has a family caring role, this includes serving, reservists, cadets, veterans, ex service.

Providing:

Information, advice and guidance- tailored specifically for family carers in the armed forces community , helping them understand rights, entitlements and local support options.

Awareness‑raising within the Armed Forces community, ensuring family carers are recognised and can access timely support.

Partnership working with military welfare teams, including at Wattisham Flying Station, RAF Honington and Rock Barracks, to ensure families based on‑site or in the wider community can easily seek help.

Carer Support Groups on military bases, run in partnership with SSAFA, offering a safe space for Armed Forces families to meet, share experiences and access emotional support. These groups run monthly at RAF Honington.

Support Our Paras, The Parachute Regiment Charity

Charity Number: 1131977

Charitable objects are

a. Relief of need, hardship, and distress amongst past and present members of The Parachute Regiment and Airborne Forces, and their dependants.
b. The promotion of efficiency of The Parachute Regiment and Airborne Forces;
c. The promotion and maintenance of the heritage of The Parachute Regiment and Airborne Forces.

Contact Information

https://supportourparas.org/
plansdir@supportourparas.org
RHQ PARA
Merville Barracks
Colchester
CO2 7UT
01206 817074

Support Offered

As per objects

Chief Executive
CEO@supportourparas.org

Fundraising & Communications Manager

FCM@supportourparas.org

Welfare

HOW@supportourparas.org

Supporting Wounded Veterans (Skiing with Heroes)

Charity Number: 1149727
Company Number: 08258649

Supporting Wounded Veterans’ mission is to enable wounded veterans, mentally or physically injured, to return to employment. We have a 92% success record for the re-employment and re-skilling of our veterans.

Contact Information

http://www.supportingwoundedveterans.com/
info@supportingwoundedveterans.com
38 Connaught Square
London
W2 2HL
07909 090291

Support Offered

Our strategy pillars including Sport Habilitation, involving Winter and Summer Challenges, are designed to regain confidence and team spirit and enable former UK servicemen and women to move forward from rehabilitation to employment. In addition to our core activities, such as mentoring and pain management, the Charity focuses on new ways to re-employ veterans using their strengths of work ethic, ownership and project management and are currently focussing on water monitoring responsibilities and river pollution solutions, where we believe veterans can play a large part.

SWV is also funding research at Kings College London into MDMA-assisted therapy for the treatment of severe PTSD in veterans through our Pioneer Programme and if you have any questions about this important process or wish to take part please refer to our website www.supportingwoundedveterans.com

Tavistock Area Support Services (TASS)

Charity Number: 1129175

Tavistock Area Support Services (TASS) is a local registered charity founded 40 years ago in 1985 to support both older people and those living with disability in Tavistock and outlying rural areas. We provide vital support, services, groups and activities, with the aim to reduce loneliness and isolation and in turn promote friendships and connections, encourage independence, whilst improving health and wellbeing. We offer transport, mobility, outreach and befriending services, clubs and activities, we host lots of other organisations support groups and we have an Armed Forces Veterans Hub.

Contact Information

http://tasstavistock.org.uk/
enquiries@tasstavistock.org.uk
Chapel Street
Tavistock
PL19 8AG

Support Offered

We have a small team of staff and group leaders and a large group of volunteers all DBS checked and trained to support all our services and activities.
We have many of own support groups and welcome other professional, businesses and organisations to regularly attend to provide additional support and advice were necessary including DWP armed forces champion, The RMA-The Royal Marines Charity Transition Officer, Welfare, Training & Education, Padre. The Royal British Legion, HelpforHeroes, Tamar Energy, Tavistock memory Café & Dementia Alliance, Parkinson’s Support Group, Stroke Group, Macular Disease Society, Physically Challenged Group, Devon Sensory team, Grief Friendship Group, 2 rural drop in centres, and a community café.

Taxi Charity for Military Veterans

Charity Number: 264678

The Objects of The London Taxi Benevolent Association for War Disabled are as follows:

Contact Information

http://www.taxicharity.org/
info@taxicharity.org
88 Grasvenor Avenue
Barnet
EN5 2DB
07860 850102

Support Offered

To organise outings, entertainment, transport and other support for former servicemen and women who are disabled, elderly, inform, impoverished or otherwise in need of charitable assistance.

To assist in the treatment and care of former servicemen and women who are disabled, elderly, infirm, impoverished or otherwise in need of charitable assistance by making grants of money for providing or paying for items, services or facilities.

Team Endeavour Racing 2023 (UK) CIC

Company Number: 15164719

TEAM ENDEAVOUR RACING is open to Wounded, Injured and Sick (WIS) serving personnel and veterans. It provides a foundation as a transition vehicle supporting and empowering team members into future employment, training or education, utilising peer mentoring and providing support and assistance through its network partners.

Contact Information

http://www.teamendeavourracing.co.uk
enquiries@teamendeavourracing.co.uk
47 Durrants Road
Rowlands Castle
Hampshire
PO9 6BE
07881363431 / 08706010041

Support Offered

We are part of the Battle Back programme and sports recovery. We support Help for Heroes Rolling Recovery Programme and offer additional vocational support.
Our objectives are:

a. To introduce and increase participation at the sports recovery event and to allow WIS personnel to take their first step, without committing to a full season.
b. Provide new team members for next season or give someone an exciting ride in a racing powerboat. This will increase our numbers further and promote our inclusion initiative whilst enabling transition.
c. Provide RYA courses – provided for individuals interested in Powerboats. RYA PB2, Intermediate & Advanced, Safety Boat and VHF Radio.
d. Provide opportunities for those not wishing to compete, but wish to participate in shore support, maintenance, National Race Support, scrutineering and photography.

Our aims are to develop, inspire and challenge Team Members during this demanding and difficult time transitioning from the Armed Forces, in a secure environment supported by volunteers with service backgrounds including its own WIS personnel and veterans. The project prides itself on the same values and goals to develop personal and team development post injury in the Armed Forces.

Our overarching objectives are to: Inspire, Develop and Challenge.

The ADVANCE Charity

Charity Number: 1190361

The ADVANCE Charity exists solely to enable, fund and support the ADVANCE Study research programme. It is primarily a grant-making charity and aims to ensure that there are sufficient funds to complete the study.

The ADVANCE Study (Armed Services Trauma Rehabilitation Outcome Study) is a 20-year cohort study investigating the long-term physical and psycho-social outcomes of battlefield casualties. ADVANCE follows more than 550 battlefield casualties, and an equivalent number of matched uninjured servicemen as a control group, from the UK Armed Forces following deployment to Afghanistan between 2002 and 2014. The aim is to use the knowledge gained from the Study to support and plan the best care possible for present and future generations of injured servicemen and women. There is no other study of its kind underway anywhere in the world, and there is considerable interest and growing involvement from the US medical community.

Contact Information

https://www.advancestudydmrc.org.uk/advance-charity/
National Heart and Lung Institute
Imperial College London
Guy Scadding Building, Cale Street
SW3 6LY

Support Offered

The ADVANCE Charity trustees are led by General Sir Nick Parker and include a member of the wounded cohort, Dr Dave Henson, and trustees with appropriate medical, governance, and fundraising expertise, including Emeritus Professor Sir Anthony Newman-Taylor and Professor Sir Simon Wesseley.

The Project Board is led by Group Captain Dr Alex Bennett RAF, Defence Professor of Rehabilitation and Rheumatology. Board members are Professor Anthony Bull, Imperial College and Professor Nicola Fear, King’s College.

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Afghanistan support

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