Loneliness and isolation affect people across all ages and all backgrounds, but there is something especially moving about veterans – men and women who have done so much for their country – now too old, frail, or anxious to go out.
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Loneliness and isolation affect people across all ages and all backgrounds, but there is something especially moving about veterans – men and women who have done so much for their country – now too old, frail, or anxious to go out.
Read moreThis week we spoke to Dorinda Wolfe Murray, CEO of FirstLight Trust, which operates six Café Hubs across the UK, with a further two in development. The hubs support Veterans and their families in their homes and their communities.
Read moreA recipe book, activity box and a regular walking group are just some of the new activities established by two students for veterans living at Launchpad’s Avondale House in Newcastle.
Read moreABF The Soldier’s Charity are pleased to award a £100,000 grant to Royal British Legion Industries (RBLI), which will help fund a new state-of-the-art dementia care facility for older veterans.
Read moreIn 2021, three Royal Navy veterans planned to sail Estrallita from her home port of Somerleyton on the Norfolk Broads to Poole to mark the anniversary of VE/VJ Day and Operation Dynamo – the evacuation of Allied troops from Dunkirk in late May and early June 1940.
Read moreWe Are With You for the Armed Forces In The Community are pleased to let you all know that they have been awarded £30,000 from the Veterans Foundation.
Read moreTrain like a Field Gunner and run, row, or ride 7,488 metres (the number of nautical miles from Portsmouth to Port Elizabeth where the challenge originated) every day for 18 days (the number of people in a Field Gun team).
Read moreFollowing the success of the inaugural Longest Day fundraising event in June 2021, leading Armed Forces charity, Walking With The Wounded (‘WWTW’) has once again teamed up with Brian Wood MC and his brand ‘Keep Attacking’ to relaunch the Longest Day Challenge to mark Armed Forces Day which takes place on 25 June 2022.
Read moreBlairgowrie resident Connie Sharpe, 41, has a direct way of making sure she carries through her tandem skydive for SSAFA, the Armed Forces charity on May 15…
Read moreNew contracts have gone live on 1 April 2022 that will provide crucial accommodation services to 39,000 Armed Forces families across the UK.
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