Positive Bridge Media has been set up as a media platform to integrate the Armed Forces charity community across the East Region. We welcome news, events and media from all areas of the community.

 

The Veteran’s Places People and Pathways Programme, VPPP - East Region of England are building a society in which the Armed Forces, veterans and their families can thrive. 

           It is supporting major projects to enable veterans to access support that meets their needs. 14 major projects will encourage the development of safe, welcoming places for veterans to go in their local area, support the people (staff and volunteers in organisations that support veterans) to be able to have access to good quality training and will connect veterans to wider pathways including for mental health support and treatment.

           All the projects were sponsored by 11 partners altogether with strong motivation for the veteran’s support. They provide podcasts, news, events, fundraisers etc. for collaborating with veteran supporters.

 

 

  

1. Give veterans safe, welcoming places to go in their local area
2. Support veterans to access mental health support and treatment pathways that meet their needs
3. Ensure that people who support veterans (staff and particularly volunteers) can access good quality training and can have better access to connect veterans into more comprehensive pathways

 

 

This Project aims to provide individualized support to veterans with complex needs supporting them through a safe pathway to self-sufficiency through volunteering.

              Helping people who are excluded from society to participate in volunteering and build a more positive future for themselves. We don’t have a time limit for our support; we work flexibly to meet the individual needs of every person we help.

 

The Project aims to offer an extension of its existing project across the Anglia region addressing the needs of veterans with all types of severe and complex issues together with assisting adult family members dealing with the difficulties and the stress of dealing with them.

Our programme enables individuals to manage their emotions and to develop the resilience, focus and motivation to succeed in today’s world. 

The programme has been developed over the last ten years to meet the demands and challenges experienced by past and present members of the armed forces and their families. 

 

 

 

 

Provision of embedded welfare office in the Queen Elizabeth Hospital, King’s Lynn is covering all of West Norfolk and Waveney.

An independent charity providing medical welfare to the armed forces, veterans, NHS staff, emergency services, The Merchant Navy and their immediate families when they are receiving treatment in hospital. 

Our practical and emotional support ensures that no one goes through the worry of illness or injury alone.

 

 

The project aims to bring the AF community together online to learn and share their interests in order to develop their creative and technical skills and explore their ideas and creative expression through journaling.

Company of Makers exists to support Veterans who are struggling on civvy street no matter how long ago they left the Armed Forces.

The purpose behind all this creativity is to help fund making workshops for ex-Service personnel and their families who are struggling with life on civvy street

 

 

Provision of an additional case worker in Suffolk/North Essex together with a permanent location in Lowestoft. A way to provide purposeful rehabilitation, veteran outreach & a training course to recovering veterans and their families to give back to the support network.

 

 

Integration of mental health issues by adding a mental health dimension and its delivery through a new local person-centred casework service.

SSAFA, the Armed Forces charity is a trusted source of support for serving personnel, veterans and their families in their time of need.

 

 We use our expertise in mental health and governance to encourage and support the development of safe pathways and safe places.

We are Combat Stress, the UK’s leading charity for veterans’ mental health. For over a century, we’ve helped former servicemen and women with mental health problems such as post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), anxiety and depression. 

 

 

Aim to establish increased Head Start Therapy training for more adult family members in the region supporting up to 56 referrals of 6 sessions each.

          Whether mentally wounded, socially wounded or physically wounded, they deserve the care, support and means they and their families need to function in society, serving in the communities in which they live, reigniting their sense of purpose and making a positive contribution again.

           We do four things: employment, mental health, care coordination and volunteering which are saving jobs, homes, relationships and lives for the veterans who are struggling since leaving the military.

 

 

VCM offers peer mentor support to veterans to engage with treatment and support through its aspirational, inspirational and motivational approach. A warm handover never signposting

This ‘one-stop shop’ approach means that VCN can immediately connect you with a professional who is able to support you with issues such as housing, benefits, employment mental health and social isolation.