In its 16th online Impact Report, Veterans Aid reveals the challenges and successes that defined its activity in 2024 – and the disturbing trends that it recorded.
Published just days after the external audit conducted by Cambridge Econometrics, that confirmed its steady 90% success rate, the Charity’s Annual Impact Report drills down into detail about what it achieved over the year. It also lifts the veil on the challenges of daily life at its flagship residential facility New Belvedere House which, since its refurbishment in 2018, has provided 125,334 nights of accommodation for veterans who were either homeless or facing the imminent prospect of homelessness.
An alarming 62% of those seeking VA’s support were in crisis because of poverty.
In additional to information about the Charity’s financial health, expertise, achievements and aspirations, the Impact Report features first-hand accounts of three veterans whose lives were transformed through its interventions.
CEO Professor Hugh Milroy said, “I commend this publication to anyone who wants to know what we do and why, who we help, and in what ways. The traditional perception of veterans as ‘old soldiers’ or ‘wounded warriors’ is simply not supported by what we see on a daily basis. The landscape of need has changed irrevocably. For example, 38 of last year’s clients were ‘Generation Z’ – and we expect that number to rise. Clients present with traumas as diverse as sexual violence and marriage issues. Nearly 19% of those we saw between May 2024/25 were Foreign & Commonwealth veterans.
“We know that our work has social value – and an economic saving to the taxpayer of up to £2.6m according to the recent audit. We have a model that works as I hope this publication illustrates.”
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