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 moreA telephone friendship service designed to ease loneliness among members of the RAF community has smashed its target after 120,000 calls were made since its launch in April 2020.
Read moreA group of seven blind veterans from Lincolnshire have hit a milestone of 10 million steps as they continue a challenge designed to maintain wellbeing and fitness following the lockdown period.
Read moreDo you know a Veteran in living in Angus, Tayside and Fife who is lonely or isolated?
Read moreAcademics are looking for military widow(er)s to take part in a survey on loneliness and social isolation
Read moreBrian Blessed has hosted a private audience with a group of 30 blind veterans from Essex and Hertfordshire, providing some much-needed entertainment as this period of self-isolation continues.
Read moreThe Armed Forces Covenant Fund Trust (the Trust) is delighted to announce that 60 projects have been awarded two-year grants of £70,000, under the Tackling Loneliness programme, designed to tackle loneliness and isolation in Forces communities across the UK.
Read moreConnections for Life is the new way that the RAF Association is fighting loneliness with friendship.
Read moreSSAFA, the Armed Forces charity has announced the extension of their project ‘Keep Calm, Get Connected and Carry On’ thanks to a grant from The Department for Digital, Culture, Media, and Sport (DCMS).
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