The Armed Forces Covenant Trust Fund: Veterans' Capital Housing Fund

Overview

Refurbishment Grants Programme

The Refurbishment Grants Programme will award grants of up to £75,000 for projects that will refurbish or extend existing accommodation for veterans. This could be transitional or permanent housing. Permanent housing can only include properties that are available to veterans under a social rent, or are part of a wider facility that provides a rented home to a veteran with the tailored support that meets their needs (this can include care homes).

You can apply to this programme if your project will:

• enable refurbishments of existing affordable homes for rent to veterans
• enable refurbishments of sites that increase the availability of veteran housing
• ensure properties meet decent homes and energy efficiency standards.

To be eligible for this funding, you must be one of the following:

• A registered charity that can show it works with veterans or
• A registered social housing provider that can show it works with veterans.

A strong application will show how the project will contribute to the aims of the government’s ambition to reduce Veteran homelessness and end rough sleeping, who you would work with to deliver the project and how the benefits of the work would contribute to the overall aims of this programme.

The Development Grants Programme

This programme will award grants of up to £25,000 to assist in the development of new build projects that will offer high quality support for veterans with a housing need.

This can help if you would like to apply for costs of getting a building idea to provide new housing for veterans to the stage where on site works could start. Grants of up to £25,000 are available for projects lasting up to one year.

You can apply to this programme if:

• Your project is at an early stage of development; and
• You require funding for professional support costs such as architects, qualified construction project managers or quantity surveyors, to develop detailed building plans and cost assessments for projects that would provide additional capacity in services for veterans who are at risk of homelessness.
• This is a development grant programme – grants cannot be used for direct capital costs to create or refurbish buildings.

To be eligible for this funding, you must be one of the following:

• A registered charity that can show that it works with veterans or
• A registered social housing provider that can show that it works with veterans

There is more detailed information about eligibility in the programme guidelines available on the webpage. This is a complex programme, and it is important that you read the programme guidance carefully before you apply.

You should show them how your project will meet the aims of this programme which are:

• To contribute to the aims of the Veterans’ Strategy’s ambition to end Veteran Homelessness by 2023.
• To deliver sustainable, veteran affordable and support housing and ensure veterans have access to good quality housing, including housing at affordable rents, that meets their needs.

You should demonstrate how your development project aims to develop a viable and well-planned future larger scale capital project.