Today (25th April 2024) the government is announcing that LGBT military charity, Fighting With Pride, has been awarded a £350,000 grant to create the UK’s first commemoration of those in the LGBT community who served in the armed forces.
Read moreToday (25th April 2024) the government is announcing that LGBT military charity, Fighting With Pride, has been awarded a £350,000 grant to create the UK’s first commemoration of those in the LGBT community who served in the armed forces.
Read moreTo mark National Fishing Remembrance Day The Seafarers’ Charity and Seafish are joining forces to highlight the legacy of the “Headscarf Revolutionaries” who successfully campaigned to change the law and improve fishing safety in the 1960s.
Read moreOn 5 and 6 June this year, a series of major commemorations in the UK and France will honour the brave personnel who risked their lives for freedom and peace.
Read moreOn Saturday 18 May at 1300 hours at the National Memorial Arboretum, Croxall Road, Alrewas, Staffordshire, members of the Royal Observer Corps Association will march with their National and Group Standards down the Royal Observer Corps Grove, to hold a short service at the Seaborne Memorial and lay a wreath to pay tribute to the 796 Observers who became enrolled in the Royal Navy with the rank of Petty Officer / Aircraft Identifiers and sailed with the allied invasion forces taking part in Operation Overlord – the codename for the invasion and liberation of occupied Europe.
Read moreBlind Veterans UK, the national charity for vision-impaired ex-Service men and women, is calling for people to take on a fundraising challenge in the month of June to mark the 80th anniversary of D-Day and National Armed Forces Day.
Read moreIn June, The Taxi Charity will be travelling to Normandy for the 80th anniversary of D-Day.
Read moreOn 22 March, Wing Commander Helen Simpson MA BSc, the Station Commander of RAF St Mawgan, supported by military personnel, local veterans, including representation from The Veterans Charity and three local schools, launched our international Ribbon of Poppies event across the UK.
Read moreOn 18 March East Midlands Railway (EMR) and The Veterans Charity were awarded second place in the Best Community Engagement event at the Community Rail Awards 2024.
Read moreRepresentatives from across the military and civilian communities have come together at Stonehenge World Heritage Site on Friday 22 March 2024, for a service of prayer and remembrance to mark 80 years since the loss of HMS Stonehenge at sea.
Read moreOn the evening of 6 June, the Royal Albert Hall will host ‘D-Day 80: Remembering the Normandy Landings’, a unique evening of music-led, multi-generational storytelling, reflecting on the beginning of the end of the Second World War.
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