Female Veterans' Transformation Programme

Today has been magnificent! 🤩 Lisa Rawlings MSc & I hosted our 4th Female Veterans Alliance workshop, focusing on creating actionable solutions to improve the lives of female veterans and serving personnel. We brought together the most incredible group of people from around the UK, and we are so grateful to all the amazing representatives from these organisations that attended: Amazon | Alabaré | Cornerstone Opportunities CIC | Caerphilly County Borough Council | Citizens Advice | Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) | The Veterans' Foundation | Forces Employment Charity | Royal British Legion | Hugh James | Cardiff and Vale University Health Board | Fighting With Pride - LGBT+ Military Charity | Office for Veterans' Affairs | Llywodraeth Cymru / Welsh Government | Royal Naval Association | The Poppy Factory | Anglia Ruskin University | Cabinet Office | Sierra Nevada Corporation Mission Systems UK | Career Transition Partnership | Remoo Mortgages | YourNorth | Female Veterans' Transformation Programme | Grassroots Suicide Prevention Special shout out to Sarah Atherton - a fellow female veteran and absolute trail blazer - who has worked tirelessly on the womens veteran agenda and paved the way for the work we are doing now 🚀 Extra special gratitude to Emma Morgan from Amazon for our ongoing partnership and also the team at Hugh James for being in our corner, always!🙏🏼♥️ Looking forward to collating all the data from today and publishing Report #4 🙌🏼 Lisa & I run FVA as volunteers and who knew when we started this journey 3.5 years ago, that we would have created something so special & meaningful… Excited for 2025 & beyond…who’s with us!? 🔥 #FVA | #HearOurVoice | #FemaleVeterans

On the 28th November, Lisa Rawlings MSc & I will be hosting our next Female Veterans Alliance event, being held at The Village Hotel, Cardiff 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 This stakeholder workshop follows the research carried out during our previous 3 workshops - held in June 2022, October 2023 & September 2024 – where we brought together female veterans from all over the UK to talk about their experiences of Service, transition and integration back into civilian life. Amidst the success stories and uplifting experiences shared, unfortunately the majority were truly heartbreaking and proof that ‘we’ have been failed at all 3 touch points of our research. The next step in our plan is to bring together leading experts and change makers, so we can create actionable solutions, based on the findings & recommendations from our published reports. We will be focusing discussions and actions based on the 6 themes from the UK Veteran Strategy: 1: Community and relationships 2: Employment, education and skills 3: Finance & debt 4: Health & wellbeing 5: Making a home in civilian street 6: Veterans & the law We have been overwhelmed by the incredible support we have received from organisations throughout the UK and we are super excited to bring all their representatives together in less than 2 weeks. Amazon | Alabaré | Cornerstone Opportunities CIC | Caerphilly Lettings | Caerphilly County Borough Council | Citizens Advice | Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) | The Veterans' Foundation | Royal British Legion | Hugh James | Cardiff and Vale University Health Board | Fighting With Pride - LGBT+ Military Charity | Office for Veterans' Affairs | Llywodraeth Cymru / Welsh Government | Royal Naval Association | The Poppy Factory | Anglia Ruskin University | Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board | Cabinet Office | Sierra Nevada Corporation Mission Systems UK | Career Transition Partnership | Remoo Mortgages | YourNorth | UK government | Female Veterans' Transformation Programme If you are an individual, business or organisation from the UK with specialised knowledge of any of the above themes and you would like to participate in this ground-breaking research & action project, please send me a DM or email: 📧 events@femaleveteransalliance.org

You can still sign up to our talk this evening for the Veterans Studies Association, which will take place 4-6pm (UK time). ♀ Supporting the mental health needs of women veterans. 🎫 You can sign up here: https://lnkd.in/ehn_4f8h This seminar presents findings from the 'I don't feel like that's for me' report: https://lnkd.in/eQG3jHG5 The project explored barriers and facilitators of ex-servicewomen's access to mental health support, funded by the NIHR (National Institute for Health and Care Research). We would love to see you there!

As part of my minor role in NHS England's Patient and Public Voice for the Armed Forces Community. I was sent a leaflet for veterans that may suffer during Bonfire Night to distribute around my networks. I must say, I think this is one of the best I have seen. Please do share widely....