When ex-RAF servicewoman Jesse needed to take her career in a new direction due to lasting damage from a leg injury, the RAF Benevolent Fund, the RAF’s leading welfare charity, stepped in to support her retraining decision and help ease the financial strain....
In June, The Taxi Charity will be travelling to Normandy for the 80th anniversary of D-Day. They are hoping to take 13 Normandy veterans and their carers to attend services of commemorations and unite in remembering those who didn’t return. As a charity that is...
A new report produced by Nacro and the University of Northampton, and funded by Forces in Mind Trust, explores the barriers to identification of ex-Service personnel in the criminal justice system, and the barriers to uptake of support. Whilst the majority of...
In the latest edition of The Army Benevolent Fund’s General Talk podcast, host Harry Bucknall and guests remember the Band of the Coldstream Guards playing for peace in Sarajevo 30 years ago. On 20 March 1994, at the height of the Bosnian conflict, UN officials...
Representatives of SSAFA, the Armed Forces charity and its operations in Scotland paid a courtesy call to His Majesty’s Naval Base Clyde – more commonly known as Faslane – on March 20. While just a fleeting visit, it was an opportunity for Sandra Miller and...