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Scottish Veterans’ Residences

Scottish Charity Number: SC012739

Provide supported independent living accommodation for ex-Service people and ex-Merchant mariners who are homeless or in need.

Contact Information

http://www.svronline.org
info@svronline.org
53 Canongate
Edinburgh
EH8 8BS
0131 556 0091

Support Offered

Help with benefits and pensions.
Financial support for residents on very low incomes.

128 high quality, single, en-suite rooms with full catering service in Edinburgh and Dundee. 25 affordable rental flats.

Practical, emotional and welfare support including housing support. 24 hour support warden cover.

Scotty’s Little Soldiers

Charity Number: 1170528

To provide relief from the effects of bereavement to young people up to and including the age of 25 who have experienced the death of a parent who served with the armed forces of the crown.

Contact Information

http://www.scottyslittlesoldiers.co.uk
hello@scottyslittlesoldiers.co.uk
Unit 21 Bergen Way
King’s Lynn
PE30 2JG
08000 928 571

Support Offered

The charity is currently providing assistance to hundreds of bereaved Forces children and young people around the UK and services offered include guidance to parents and carers, access to professional child bereavement support, personal education and learning assistance (including grants) and fun activities such as holiday respite breaks and group events. These are all designed to remind the children and young people supported by Scotty’s that they are not alone.

Seafarers’ Advice and Information Line

Charity Number: 1064404
Company Number: 3346379

Seafarers’ Advice & Information Line (SAIL) is a free advice service supporting active and former seafarers across the UK. This includes the Naval Service.
All advice is free and confidential. SAIL’s advice is given over the phone, by email or by post. SAIL also attends the VOS every month in Portsmouth.
SAIL is part of Citizens Advice.

Contact Information

http://sailine.org.uk/
admin@sailine.org.uk
Seafarers' Advice and Information Line
30 King William Walk
Greenwich
SE10 9HU
0800 160 1842

Support Offered

Seafarers’ Advice & Information Line (SAIL) offers free advice and support to anyone who’s ever served in the Royal Navy, Royal Marines and the Reserves, as well as their partners. SAIL has 8 professional advisers.
Advice is given on a wide range of issues, for example debt, benefits, housing, immigration, the practicalities of relationship breakdown and much more.
Contact SAIL free on 0800 160 1842. For more on SAIL see www.sailine.org.uk

Service Dogs UK

Charity Number: 1165409
Company Number: 9553131

Service Dogs UK is a unique charity that partners Veterans with PTSD from the Armed Forces and Emergency Services with specially selected dogs from ‘rescue’. Once partnered they embark on a 9 – 12 month journey together, where under our expert guidance, they reach accreditation as an Assistance Dog Partnership.

There is no cost to the Veteran for the dog, the equipment, training, food or insurance, the charity pays all the costs of running the programme until the partnership eventually becomes accredited. It is a challenging journey but the Veterans are supported every step of the way as they work alongside other Veterans with PTSD and mentors who have completed the course. They learn to work as a team, to get to know each others needs and to become an excellent partnership that is proud to be seen in public and wear the special red harness.

All of our Veterans have free ongoing support from us for the life of the partnership and are prioritised for successor dogs. A re-test is required every year at no cost to the Veteran, the continuous support and assistance provided by the charity is part of our commitment to those who have served.

Contact Information

http://www.servicedogsuk.org
getintouch@servicedogsuk.org
Fareham Marina
Lower Quay
Fareham
PO16 0RA
03301200755

Support Offered

Our training methods and our programme have been formulated following extensive research with the help of a Churchill Fellowship in the USA and the Netherlands. The programme has been proven at every level and is the only UK PTSD Assistance Dog Programme accredited internationally and the only member of Assistance Dogs UK.

At each Hub we have a dedicated training team who are there to guide the prospective teams through the programme and onto accreditation. We have Veteran mentors who are on hand to provide support throughout the programme and we link in with other Armed Forces Charities to try and ensure ‘wrap around’ assistance if required.

Sight Scotland Veterans

Scottish Charity Number: SC047192

Established in 1915 to support servicemen who were blinded in WWI, today we help blind and partially sighted veterans no matter how or when they lost their sight – including those who did national service – to adapt to life with a visual impairment.

Contact Information

http://www.sightscotlandveterans.org.uk
hello@sightscotlandveterans.org.uk
2a Robertson Avenue
EH11 1PZ
0131 229 1456

Support Offered

Our offer is as diverse as those we support. We know that everyone faces different challenges and that everyone’s goals are individual. That’s why our team work with everyone in the way which is right for them.

We give support that ranges from practical advice and identifying solutions that help you stay as independent as possible, to vital emotional support and opportunities to meet others facing sight loss.

Sight Scotland Veterans can also provide specialist equipment free of charge to aid independence in day-to-day tasks – from talking watches, cooking aids and electronic magnifiers, to digital technology such as smartphones or tablets with specialist software for people with sight loss.

The charity’s expert rehabilitation team offer one-to-one assessments and tailored training for specialist equipment and cane and mobility training.

Sight Scotland Veterans also runs two activity hubs for veterans with sight loss: the Linburn Centre in Wilkieston, West Lothian, and the Hawkhead Centre in Paisley, Renfrewshire.

Smart Savings CIC (Veterans Regroup)

Company Number: 06995089

Smart Savings CIC is a charitable and award-winning Community Interest Company that has supported members of the Armed Forces community in Cornwall and Devon since 2012. We are regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority, registered with the ICO, are members of Advice UK and ASDIC and are a Veterans Gateway’ partner.
We enable serving members of the armed forces, veterans and their families to access vital support services to tackle money, health, housing and employment issues.
Our team of veteran support workers use their own experiences to help fellow veterans and their families at our monthly drop-in and hub in Cornwall to confront challenges in their lives and manage their journeys of recovery.

Contact Information

http://www.smartsavings.org.uk/veterans-support/
info@smartsavings.org.uk
Redruth Community Centre
Foundry Road
Redruth
TR15 1AN
01209 212579

Support Offered

Our team of FCA-accredited money and welfare advisers provide specialist advice and information relating to money, debt, housing, health and employment. Our veteran drop-in and hub offers peer support, training, social activities, refreshments and food parcels.
We work collaboratively with military charities, statutory bodies and other relevant organisations to increase veterans’ access to services and improve their journeys of recovery.

Soldiers League Charity

Charity Number: 1178408

Soldiers League uses Rugby League as a vehicle to support SP and Veterans who have suffered injuries (physical or mental).
This is through support to attend Rugby League events or through participation in our Wheelchair Rugby League side.

Contact Information

http://www.soldiersleague.com
committee@soldiersleague.com
14 Figsbury Ridge
Salisbury
SP4 6JA

Support Offered

We have strong links into the Rugby League community, through the national governing body (RFL), a network of retired professional players, a network of serving and retired service personnel, and through the England Wheelchair RL and wheelchair Super League.

As 10% of SP come from traditional rugby league areas, this enables us to facilitate support through a non-military route to those in need.

Special Boat Service Association

Charity Number: 1168876

To relieve members or their dependants who are in need by virtue of financial hardship, injury or sickness.

Contact Information

ceo@association1664.com
SBS Association
PO Box 1014
Hamworthy
BH15 4YT

Support Offered

Welfare and social activities.

Spirit of Normandy Trust

Charity Number: 1038121

Spirit of Normandy Trust was founded in 1994 with two main objectives- Benevolence and Education

Contact Information

http://www.spiritofnormandy.org.uk/
info@spiritofnormandy.org.uk
The Spirit of Normandy Trust
PO Box 300
Shrewsbury
SY5 6WP
01428 605672

Support Offered

Benevolence To provide financial assistance for veterans of the three services who served in the Normandy Campaign and their dependants. Requests directed through SSAFA info@ssafa.org.uk

Education To increase knowledge, understanding and appreciation of the general public concerning those events leading up to and beyond the Normandy Campaign, and their historical significance.

The Young Historian Project http://www.spiritofnormandy.org.uk/young-historians.html

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