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Military Charity Launches Mental Wellbeing Training
Families of serving RAF personnel and veterans who are finding life tough will be offered unique training to help them identify, and deal with, the symptoms of poor mental wellbeing at locations across the UK, courtesy of The Royal Air Forces Association... The...
Dalgety Bay Clean-Up To Begin
Work to clean up radioactive material at Dalgety Bay is set to start following the award of a contract by the Defence Infrastructure Organisation... The beach at Dalgety Bay is contaminated with radium, which needs to be removed. It has been agreed with the Scottish...
Trustee Appointment For NHS & Naval Expert
FirstLight Trust, a charity helping former members of the armed forces and emergency services get back on their feet, has appointed a new trustee... James Hayward served in the Royal Navy as a Maritime Reserve Officer for more than 20 years, rising to the rank of...
Charity Funds First Veteran Orthopaedic Centre
Artist's impression of the exterior of The Headley Court Veterans Orthopaedic Centre due to be built at RJAH The UK’s first dedicated orthopaedic centre for Armed Forces veterans is to be built in Shropshire, thanks to a remarkable £6 million grant from the Headley...
UK Personnel Deploy On Arctic Warfare Exercise
A Naval task group made up of four Royal Navy vessels; HMS Albion, HMS Sutherland, HMS Echo and RFA Lyme Bay have set sail this week to Norway in one of the largest UK deployments in 2020. They will join a force of more than a thousand Green Berets who have been in...
Further Forces Recruitment – Transfer Your Skills To Teaching
In partnership with the Gatsby Charitable Foundation, Further Forces is a scheme to recruit and retrain Armed Forces Service Leavers to teach technical subjects, including Science, Engineering and Technology (SET) in the Further Education (FE) and Skills Sector. You...
Veterans UK Launches New Website
The Veterans UK website has been completely redesigned, meaning you now have a better website with easier to find information about support services for veterans... The team at MOD Veterans UK has been working with veterans and their families to re-write the Veterans...
Foundation Celebrates 10 Year Anniversary
On Course Foundation, the charity that supports the recovery of wounded service personnel and veterans through golf - including employment opportunities in the golf industry - is celebrating its 10th anniversary this year... As a sport, golf offers a unique platform...
Marking 75 Years Since VE Day
With less than 75 days to go to the 75th anniversary of VE Day, Prime Minister Boris Johnson has announced the UK Government’s plans for the commemorations... On 8th May a day-long series of events will take place across the UK to commemorate the Allied Victory in...
Summiting Everest With One Arm?
Martin Hewitt, founder of Adaptive Grand Slam, the Explorers Grand Slam for the disabled, has announced that he will present the premier of the AGS team’s film “Adaptive Grand Slam – To the Summit of Everest” on April 1st at the Royal Geographical Society in London......
