Veterans Supporting Veterans
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Watch our Doodle Clip below to find out how we can support you.
These days, there is so much help out there for Veterans, Reservists and their families that it can be difficult to know exactly where to start. Making phone contact can sometimes be difficult and frustrating if you can’t get through on a help line or feel as if you are being sent around in circles.
The Veterans Community Network will never just sign post you to one of these agencies. We have developed personal relationships with all of our partners and from this joined up working, we offer a monthly drop-in Hub. This ‘one stop shop’ approach means that VCN can immediately connect you with the professional who is able to support with issues such as housing, benefits, employment mental health and social isolation.
The aim of VCN is to support Veterans, Reservists and their families in accessing the treatment and support services to help cope, adjust and manage situations. We do this through our network of trained Veteran Peer Mentors and a range of social activities.
The Veterans Community Network is a registered Charity, proudly offering our services across Bedfordshire, Milton Keynes, Luton, Buckinghamshire, Oxfordshire, West Berkshire & Northamptonshire. We provide one-to-one support for Veterans, Reservists and military families, through a network of trained Veteran Peer Mentors and Partnership working. The aim of the Charity is to train Veterans as Peer Mentors and then connect them with local veterans and offer support.
Please contact the Samaritans for Veterans' Emotional Support helpline.
Their dedicated helpline provides a safe & non-judgemental space for people who have served in the Armed Forces to talk about their experiences.
Call free, anytime on 0808 175 3075 or click the button below for their website.
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Saturday 3rd May 2025 at 10:00HRS
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To mark this historic event, VCN is launching it's Veterans Community Tapestry Project. The above image is the first panel for the project. We will be taking the tapestry to various venues across Bedfordshire, Buckinghamshire and Northamptonshire with an opportunity to complete a few stitches for a small donation. You will get a unique certificate to acknowledge your contribution. Not only is this a living history project that you can be part of, it will help VCN raise much needed funding so we can continue to provide our own brand of support. Anyone who is interested in helping Gill design further panels, please click the button below to be redirected to our contact form.
Saturday 10th May 2025
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VCN has signed the Armed Forces Covenant.
We celebrate individual differences and seek to ensure that everyone is treated fairly and with respect. We acknowledge that everyone brings a unique perspective and ideas to the Charity and we do everything we can to help each person to thrive.
VCN operates Safe Accessible Support through offering Veteran Peer mentoring which actively seeks out other veterans who are in distress and in need of support. Our peer mentors all have a military background, have undergone the accredited veteran mental health first aid training and successfully completed an accredited peer mentor training course. Our ambition is to support veterans to engage and remain in treatment with our partners and other ‘wrap around services’ .
This legal structure ensures that VCN delivers services through a framework of policies and procedures to ensure a safe and effective network of support. Copies of our policies and procedures are available on our website. We are a member of ASDIC (Association of ex-service Drop-in Centres) and NCVO (National Council of Volunteering Organisations). We have been awarded The Veterans Mental Health Awareness Standard by COBSEO.
The Veterans’ Community Network are committed to ensuring the security and protection of the personal information that we process, and to provide a compliant and consistent approach to data protection. We have a robust and effective data protection program in place which complies with existing law and abides by the GDPR (2018) data protection principles.
In accordance with the Government guidance for COVID-19, there are currently no restrictions in the UK. This being said, the Veterans Community Network do hold face to face events at a variety of locations, all of which have different COVID-19 requirements (if any). Therefore, we strongly encourage those interested in attending any of our events who would like clarification of the COVID-19 requirements (if any) for that location to get in touch with us via our contact form to enquire and we will be more than happy to assist. For the most up to date guidance and support on COVID-19, please refer to the Government Coronavirus Advice Website.
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If you or someone you know is in a mental health crisis or emergency, you should either call your GP or go to your local A&E department.