COVENANT
Youth Club, on the Manor Farm Estate of North Hykeham which mainly serves RAF Waddington, received £12,000 to set up and run a local youth club which will bring together RAF families who live on the estate and the local community. Similarly, the First Responders at RAF Halton received over £19,000 for new kit and equipment. The grant included a small amount to hold a dinner for the First Responders’ team to acknowledge their valuable contribution to the community in responding to crises and keeping people safe and well. The grant recognised the community integration benefi ts of the First Responders in raising the profi le of the RAF across the local community and providing a range of skills and experience that the service men and women can take onto other careers as and when they transition to civilian life.
Local delivery of services to the Armed Forces community This local grants priority is far lesser known both in terms of numbers of applications and successful award of grants. However, for many RAF units this could be an as-yet untapped source of potential funding and bring much
needed additional services and support to their people. Eligible projects must demonstrate how they will provide support to serving personnel and/or their families by provision of services, which meet identifi ed local needs such as mental and physical health, employability, social support or the need for fi nancial advice. The key is to identify how the project extends beyond the core responsibilites of the unit to meet additional needs. A fantastic example comes from RAF Honington who successfully secured over £12,000 for a road safety initiative led by their MT unit. The demographic of their personnel is mainly young men aged under 25. They highlighted the high degree of risk of this group whilst both on duty, and more importantly for the project, off duty. Indeed on the local rural roads surrounding the unit there had been a serious of road traffi c collisions, including one fatality, with catastrophic ripple effects for the unit and local community. The project was an excellent demonstration of how the MT unit could greatly extend their remit and build on their core responsibility to deliver road safety training to personnel on duty. They used the funds to buy a
series of resources and, in partnership with the local police and Honest Truth, an innovative road safety organisation, they will deliver powerful, engaging and thought provoking road safety training to all personnel at the unit and their families to benefi t them, and ultimately the local community, by creation of safer roads.
How to apply The current Local Grants fund for this year remains open for prospective projects until January 2018 and all the details about information, guidance and how to apply go to
gov.uk/government/ publications/covenant-fund-guidance- on-how-to-apply
Within the RAF FF Covenant Team we have a wealth of experience of providing information and advice to potential applicants including several of the examples above. We regularly deliver workshops at units, with local authorities and to other organisations about the Covenant fund and its different priorities. If you are thinking about applying please contact one of the RAF FF Covenant Team to see how we could help:
raf-ff.org.uk/covenant or telephone the team initially on 01780 781650.
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