DEADLINE EXTENDED TO 11 MARCH 2024
On 19 July 2023 the LGBT Veterans’ Independent Review was published, making a number of recommendations. Via this grant scheme the OVA aims to deliver recommendations 17-19, which focuses on establishing a memorial at the National Memorial Arboretum.
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Summary
As part of the Veterans’ Strategy Action Plan 2022-24, the Government committed to commissioning a review into the experiences of LGBT personnel who served under the ban on homosexuality in the UK Armed Forces, which was in place until 2000.
On 19 July 2023 the LGBT Veterans’ Independent Review was published, making a number of recommendations, including recommendations 17-19, which were in relation to memorialisation.
R17: There should be a public memorial at the National Memorial Arboretum to all LGBT people who have served and continue to serve in the military, possibly including a specific reference to those who suffered the consequences of the Ban on serving homosexuals prior to January 2000. The unveiling or dedication should be at a ceremony to which are invited, among others, all LGBT veterans who served under, and suffered from, the Ban. [Please note that the final sentence regarding a ceremony are outside the scope of this grant]
R18: The design of the memorial should be a work of collaboration by appropriate organisations, but certainly including one or more of those which have the support and respect of veterans who served under, and suffered from, the Ban and are the subject of this Review.
R19: The Government should pay for such a memorial as the Ban, which caused the considerable suffering of affected veterans, was MoD policy.
Through this grant scheme, the OVA aims to deliver these recommendations.
