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The Armed Forces Covenant Fund Trust has launched the “Apart, Not Alone: Support for Serving Families Facing Service-Related Separation Programme 2025–26”. It aims to help families of serving personnel and reservists cope with the strains of deployment and training. Military families often suffer loneliness and isolation during separation, creating a clear need for targeted support.
The programme consists two complementary programmes aimed at improving the quality of life for those impacted by service related separation. Both programmes support families experiencing separation, and recognise the significant impact it can have on various aspects of family life, including emotional wellbeing, mental health, social connections and overall family dynamics.
The Apart, Not Alone: Local Impact Grants Programme will award portfolio grants of up to £300,000 over three years to Local Authorities and UK charities for projects mitigating the impact of service-related separation on families of serving personnel and reservists.
For further details of Apart, Not Alone: Local impact grants, please use this link.
The Apart not Alone: Support for serving families facing service-related separation programme. The Armed Forces Covenant Fund Trust will award grants of between £5,000 and £50,000 for single projects that mitigate the impact of service-related separation for families of serving personnel and reservists.
Your project will need to address one or more of the following outcomes:
- Families feel more able to manage the impact of loneliness or isolation during
- periods of separation.
- Families experience fewer challenges during reintegration after deployment or extended separation.
- Improved mental health and wellbeing for serving families.
Eligible applicants include registered charities with recent experience of serving the Armed Forces community, CICs with similar experience, and Armed Forces units or bases.
There will be two application deadlines this year.
Applicants will close at 12pm on 21 January 2026. Decisions will be notified before the end of March 2026.
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