Veterans Aid has turned the clock back to Crimean times to deliver a very modern message of hope. Using a small group of volunteers who had either faced, or experienced, crisis or homelessness the Charity filmed a reconstruction of Kipling’s darkly controversial poem, The Last of the Light Brigade. Called Veterans Voices it was made […]
A senior academic, Prof Hitoshi Kawano, from Japan’s National Defense Academy, which trains all Japanese military officers, recently visited Veterans Aid to help understand issues facing Veterans in Japan. Veterans Aid has further extended its international academic links to include Japan following a visit to the charity by Professor Hitoshi Kawano from Yokosuka. Professor Kawano, […]
Many Armed Forces veterans find it difficult to reintegrate into society. Some end up homeless and without hope. For these men and women, the charity Veterans Aid is a life-saver. Glyn Strong visits its headquarters and hostel. Adrian Eddison-Stone still has vivid memories of the night he became homeless. ‘Rough sleeping in the infantry is […]
A £10,000 gift by businessman and philanthropist Sir Gulam Noon will help pave the way to recovery for ex-Servicemen in the care of Veterans Aid. Following a recent visit to the charity’s New Belvedere House hostel in Stepney, Sir Gulam praised VA for its ‘wonderful work’ among the homeless ex-Service community. Noon Foods had already […]
A group of formerly homeless ex-Servicemen from London enjoyed the champagne lifestyle in France for a day as part of a fundraising event that earned homelessness charity Veterans Aid £60,000. The money was raised by sponsored walkers from the The Worshipful Company of Vintners who faced steep slopes, sunshine and showers during their 25k trek […]
Veterans Aid CEO Dr Hugh Milroy has become a Visiting Senior Research Fellow in the Department of War Studies at King’s College, London. With effect from 1 July 2010 he will become the only head of a military charity to hold such a position. Read more at the King’s College London site. Dr Milroy said […]
Veterans charity chief Dr Hugh Milroy will be sharing the stage with a distinguished academic colleague from the University of Georgia on 1 July to talk about Veteran homelessness and the factors underlying it. Chief Executive Officer of Veterans Aid (www.veterans-aid.net ) and a former Gulf War Veteran, Dr Milroy was recently appointed Senior Visiting […]
CEO of Veterans Aid Dr Hugh Milroy challenged students to ‘define a Veteran’ when he addressed members of the War Studies Department at London’s Kings College. His 60 minute guest lecture invited the students to reconsider assumptions about who Veterans are in modern day Britain. To illustrate the point he talked about Veteran homelessness, institutionalisation, […]
More than 300 City high fliers, senior military figures and VIP guests dug deep to raise cash for veteran’s charities at the inaugural FTSE Boxing Night. Donations are still being counted but the glittering event hosted at Whitehall’s historic Banqueting House has raised a significant amount for Veterans Aid, Help for Heroes and the Royal […]
It’s a long way from Catterick to London – especially on foot – but a group of soldiers, mainly from the Royal Anglian Regiment, walked 230 miles from their Yorkshire base to Barnet TA Centre Centre, to raise money for Veterans Aid. Arriving footsore and weary, but in good spirits, they were welcome by friends, […]
