The Armed Forces Covenant Fund Trust (the Trust) awards grants that support the Armed Forces community. We are both a charity and a Non-Departmental Public Body, or NDPB. We deliver high impact programmes, including administration of the £10 million Armed Forces Covenant Fund, each year.
The Armed Forces Covenant Fund has four broad funding themes now and in future years.
- Non-core healthcare services for veterans.
- Removing barriers to family life.
- Extra support, both in and after Service, for those that need help.
- Measures to integrate military and civilian communities and allow the Armed Forces community to participate as citizens.
We also work with HM Government to run other funding programmes that have a positive impact on Armed Forces communities.
Targeted grant making
All our grants are awarded through specific programmes. Each programme has an aim, which describes the change that we would like the funded projects to achieve. You can find out more about this in our programmes section.
We develop our funding programmes based on evidence of challenges that people within the Armed Forces community face, and where we think that funding from us would be able to make a significant difference to the problem.
We work with partners in government and in the charity sector to develop our programmes, and often run programme consultations.
Inclusive grant making
We’ve run some significant programmes exploring serious mental ill-health in veterans, and how we might support families and their carers. We have funded programmes that support good mental health and tackle loneliness, and programmes to provide better support to Armed Forces families.
We undertake vital impact work against all of the programmes we administer, looking at the effectiveness of these programmes and the positive changes they have made.
