SSAFA’s free and confidential helpline, Forcesline, has seen a dramatic 260% increase in requests for support through their online webchat, whilst witnessing a drop in telephone enquiries.
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SSAFA’s free and confidential helpline, Forcesline, has seen a dramatic 260% increase in requests for support through their online webchat, whilst witnessing a drop in telephone enquiries.
Read moreA scheme to support RAF veterans who are lonely and socially isolated has been extended to cover Hampshire and West Sussex.
Read moreOn 17 July, the Tri Service & Veterans Support Centre united 97-year-old veteran Bert Turner with a plane called the Short Stirling Bombers at Alconbury Stirling Project.
Read moreStoll have announced they have received a grant of £250k from Forces Support. Stoll is a charity and the leading provider of supported housing to vulnerable veterans and helping them live as independently as possible.
Read moreDWP are transforming the way members of the Armed Forces Community are supported.
Read moreThe RAF Benevolent Fund has awarded a grant of £15,000 to Worthing-based charity, Care for Veterans. The grant will help fund rehabilitation services for RAF veterans and their dependants.
Read moreThere are less than 2 months to go until hundreds of teams descend on Grasmere to take on Walking With The Wounded’s annual Cumbrian Challenge.
Read moreLeading Armed Forces charity, Walking With The Wounded (‘WWTW’), has just announced a new partnership with Forces Support, a UK Bereavement and Veterans Charity, who are providing funding for WWTW’s North-East hub, based in North Shields.
Read moreABF The Soldiers’ Charity has supported SSAFA, the Armed Forces charity with two grants totalling £230,000 towards SSAFA’s Casework and Stepping Stone Home.
Read moreMid-afternoon on Sunday (27 June ) a 16 strong group of men descended on Shackleton Lodge in the Brathay Trust Estate in the Lake District for the third in this series of experiential retreats for ex-forces personnel.
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Afghanistan support
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