Armed Forces Support

Charities

Organisation

Function

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CAB

Citizens Advice Test Valley provides free, independent, confidential and impartial advice to everyone on their rights and responsibilities.

http://www.testvalleycab.org.uk/

SSAFA

Wide ranging, tri-service support for members of the Armed Forces community

https://www.ssafa.org.uk/

 

RBL

Providing support to serving and ex-serving personnel and their families.

https://www.britishlegion.org.uk/

ABF

ABF The Soldiers’ Charity is the Army’s national charity. It provides lifetime support to soldiers, former soldiers and their families.

 

https://soldierscharity.org/

 

Help for Heroes

Help for Heroes supports those who have to leave their career in the Armed Forces as a result of physical or psychological wounds. They provide physical, psychological, financial and welfare support for as long as they need it. It also supports their families.

https://www.helpforheroes.org.uk/

 

Army Families Federation (AFF)

The Army Families Federation (AFF) is the independent voice of Army families and works hard to improve the quality of life for Army families around the world – on any aspect that is affected by the Army lifestyle.

AFF is independent of the Army and offers confidential advice. We will deal with your enquiry without revealing your identity.

https://aff.org.uk/

 

Army specific charities

The MoD outline a number of Army specific charities on their webpage

https://www.army.mod.uk/people/live-well/charities/

 

Unity

Unity support, enable and empower voluntary and community action across the Test Valley and support the development of services to meet unmet, identified needs.

 

They are positioned to enable those who may be facing real hardship through the provision of information, signposting, social prescribing, home support and a range of other community-based services designed to help make lives easier and improve health and wellbeing

 

https://unityonline.org.uk/

Royal Navy/Marines  

https://www.rnrmc.org.uk/

https://rma-trmc.org/about-us/

RAF  

https://www.rafbf.org/

https://rafa.org.uk/