Ministry of Defence: The Aged Veterans Fund
Overview
The type of projects they could fund includes:
- practical support and companionship to improve older veterans wellbeing
- the provision of services to assist individuals in the completion of personal paperwork
- projects to build or enhance access to centres where elderly veterans can meet and avoid isolation
- the promotion of education of aged veterans needs
Funding Available
Grants of up to £1,000,000 are available this year.
They may be willing to consider applications requesting over £1,000,000 or requiring more than 3 years funding, but applicants must talk to us and receive our consent before applying. The project will have to be an exemplar of its kind to be awarded more than £1,000,000, with well worked up strategic solutions, strong partnership arrangements and an excellent track record.
Who can apply?
They are particularly keen to see portfolio applications from organisations that have a good track record of managing similar strategic partnership projects across regions and nationally.
By ‘portfolio’ they mean a linked collection of projects coordinated by the lead organisation and provided by suitable partner organisations. The lead organisation will be responsible for ensuring that the projects are successful and that the sum of the whole is greater than the sum of the parts.
The lead partner must be a registered charity with a track record of managing large strategic projects, and capacity to manage and coordinate the provision of the proposed portfolio. Whilst expertise in the subject area and in engaging with the beneficiaries is essential to the make up of the portfolio partners, it is important that lead organisations can demonstrate this expertise as well.
Eligibility to be a portfolio partner is not limited to the charitable sector, but all projects must be able to show that they are operating not for profit models.
Criteria
They will prioritise projects which directly benefit older veterans and which:
- achieve coordinated outcomes across a portfolio of projects
- address genuine need
- are clearly additional to, and complement other initiatives in the sector, for example government social care initiatives
- plan to share learning and best practice with other projects
The lead applicant must be able to show evidence of their:
- ability to work in partnership
- capacity to manage large multi-faceted programmes of work
- understanding of the needs of older veterans
- ability to identify, reach and engage with older veterans