News article
New Armed Forces Covenant Fund Trust Programme Open to Applications
08/10/2018
The £4 million Tackling Serious Stress in Veterans, Families and Carers Programme will support charities and health professionals working together to develop new ways to help veterans in the UK with severe mental-health needs.
The programme, which is funded by the UK Government as part of the enduring Armed Forces Covenant Fund, intends to provide additional resources to fill the gaps in existing statutory provision for those who do not meet the usual criteria for hospitalisation and inpatient treatment, while avoiding an overlap with any of the current mental-health services or statutory support. By doing so it will deliver two of the Armed Forces Covenant’s four core themes – providing non-core healthcare services for veterans, and providing extra support after service for those that need help.