Following an invitation by the Georgia Veterans Federation, to visit and meet counterparts and interested parties, VA’s CEO Prof Hugh Milroy and a colleague spent four days in Tbilisi, discussing the universality of veterans needs and the most effective ways of ensuring their wellbeing.
Read moreAn independent report[1] illustrating the social and economic value of the work of an ex-service charity has confirmed that Veterans Aid’s interventions over the course of a year achieved net benefits (i.e. savings to society) of up to £2.6m.
Read moreThe CEO of frontline UK charity Veterans Aid , Dr Hugh Milroy, has been awarded a professorship at Australia’s prestigious Flinders University, in recognition of his globally acknowledged expertise on veterans’ wellbeing.
Read moreDr Hugh Milroy, CEO of the charity Veterans Aid, has been appointed Honorary Professor in Social Work at the University of East Anglia.
Read moreWing Commander (Retd) Dr Hugh Milroy OBE, CEO of the UK Charity Veterans Aid, has been appointed as a Vice President of the World Veterans Federation (WVF) and acting Chair of its Standing Committee on European Affairs.
Read moreWork started on the redevelopment of New Belvedere House in 2015, which was the beginning of a project that would last for four years and cost more than £8.2m
Read moreTramecia Garner, Associate Director for Housing & Residential Programs at US charity Swords to Plowshares, recently spent two weeks in the UK with Veterans Aid. From back home in San Francisco she reflects on her visit:
“Now that my time with Veterans Aid (VA) has ended I am left thinking back on these two weeks, what I have learned and what was the biggest take-away from my time in London. Not only did I learn about veteran homelessness in the UK but I also learned how one agency can have a large-scale impact on veteran care far beyond their doors.
Read moreThe Tweed Challenge is a bid by two inexperienced kayakers to navigate 97 miles of the famous Scottish river to raise funds for Veterans Aid.
Its aim is to help VA prevent ex-servicemen and women in crisis from becoming street homeless – and providing an immediate way out for those who are.
A meeting on the touchline of a rugby match, while cheering on their sons five years ago, led to an unexpected outcome for a 49-year-old Scottish businessman and a 46-year-old army officer.
Read moreVeterans Aid, the UK’s frontline operational charity for veterans in crisis, has moved to new headquarters.
From Monday 11th December 2017, after 12 years in Buckingham Palace Road, the charity will be operating from 27 Victoria Square, SW1W 0RB, just yards away from its old premises. Number 27 is the latest in a series of properties that have provided a base for the charity’s activities during its 85-year-history.
Read moreCEO of Veterans Aid Dr Hugh Milroy has been appointed Visiting Senior Lecturer in the Department of Psychological Medicine at King’s College London’s Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience (IoPPN).
He said, “I am proud and delighted to have what has been a long ‘informal’ relationship with King’s formalised in this way. Students are our future and I hope that by working with them we can open minds and challenge some of the orthodox thinking about veterans that leads to so much harmful stereotyping.”
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