Prime Minister Theresa May has recognised David Shaw CBE and Ken McMillan MBE with the Points of Light awards for setting up AF&V Launchpad, an organisation working with former service-people to make a successful transition back into civilian life.
In 2013 they created ‘AF&V Launchpad’ with co-founder Nick Tubbs, to help veterans struggling to make the transition to civilian life to find a home and gain the skills necessary to find a good job.
Read moreOn Tuesday 17th January, The Royal British Legion invited a host of its beneficiaries to attend the Endeavour Fund’s Inaugural Awards ceremony. Held on behalf of The Royal Foundation, the beneficiaries were delighted to attend the special reception celebrating the Endeavour Fund’s past, present and future.
Read moreJohn Sharpe, National Chair of the Royal Observer Corps Association has been awarded the MBE in the 2017 New Years Honours List.
Read moreWar Memorials Trust, a Cobseo member, is the only national charity to work solely for the protection of the UK’s estimated 100,000 war memorials.
The Trust has recently been shortlisted for the Directory of Social Change’s Great Giving Funders Award.
Read moreRobert joined the RNRMC in September 2008 as Chief Executive Officer, a move which he says brought him back “home”, having previously served as a warfare officer in the Royal Navy in the 1980s. After a 20 year “interim” stint with Barclays, which took him all over the UK and Europe, he took the helm of the Charity at the beginning of the voyage of discovery that awaited.
Read moreAfter 64 years of fundraising for leading Armed Forces charity Poppyscotland, Janet Gillespie has been awarded a British Empire Medal in the New Year Honours.
Mrs Gillespie spent more than 60 years as the Scottish Poppy Appeal Area Organiser for Crossmichael and Parton in Dumfries and Galloway, having begun selling poppies in 1952. In addition to ensuring her local area always had poppies and tins each November, Janet also opened her garden to the public to show off a mass of snowdrops, raising even more for Poppyscotland in the process.
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