A charity that helps current and former military personnel transition from the Forces to employment in the rural sector has announced a new programme in Devon.
HighGround will be delivering Rural Weeks at Bicton College for the first time, starting in March, followed by a further three Rural Weeks in spring.
Read moreForces in Mind Trust (FiMT), together with the Officers’ Association has today (1 March) released a new report, which provides a definitive demographic profile of the serving and ex-officer community.
The Report states that there are over 26,820 serving UK officers, and an estimated 371,600 veteran officers in Great Britain, including 19,200 over ninety years of age.
The Report projects that the number of veteran officers will fall by 55% in the next 20 years, because of the decreasing number of World War Two veterans.
Read moreHeropreneurs is a charity that inspires, networks and mentors aspiring entrepreneurs from the armed forces community. Tony served in the army for over 14 years and since leaving has been involved in the physical nitty gritty of films; currently working as a supervising location manager.
Read moreFollow this link for all the latest news from Blesma.
Read moreBirmingham Community Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust (BCHC) has teamed up with the Defence Medical Welfare Service (DMWS) and the Tavistock Institute to pilot a new model of care to support our local armed forces community with a £97,507 grant from the Forces in Mind Trust (FiMT).
A newly-appointed ‘healthcare navigator’ will lead an initiative to raise awareness of the needs of the armed forces community among NHS primary care staff and develop a dedicated service to help serving personnel, veterans, reservists and their families access a range of health, social and third sector support.
Read moreDambar Thapa is currently working on one of our major school projects in a remote part of western Nepal.
Siddartha Lower Secondary School was destroyed by the earthquakes in 2015. By November 2016, we’d begun work on new, quake-resistant buildings for its 140 pupils.
Read moreThis animation describes a Healthwatch Norfolk project (April 2015-16) to find ways of improving health and care services for military veterans with mental health conditions in Norfolk and Suffolk. The animation was produced by Creative Connection and the recipient of an NHS England’s ‘Celebrating Participation in Healthcare’ grant 2016.
Read moreFollow this link for all the latest news from the RAF Families Federation.
Read moreFollow this link for all the latest news from Forward Assist.
Read moreAlan Bustin-Mulkern, who served in the Royal Artillery and is member of the Honourable Artillery Company, is taking on the Talisker Whiskey Atlantic Challenge to raise money for ABF The Soldiers’ Charity.
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