The Trust provides a number of targeted, high-impact grant programmes to support the United Kingdom's armed forces community, ensuring that serving personnel, veterans, and their families are treated fairly.
The Armed Forces Covenant Fund Trust is an independent charity and an executive non-departmental public body sponsored by the Ministry of Defence (MOD). Its core purpose is to deliver targeted, high-impact grant programmes that support the United Kingdom's armed forces community, ensuring that serving personnel, veterans, and their families are treated fairly.
The Trust manages several funding streams to address systemic challenges within the military community. The Trust concentrates its grants on four main areas:
- Veteran Healthcare: supporting non-core healthcare and wellbeing services for veterans
- Family Support: removing unique barriers to family life caused by military service
- Service and Post-Service Help: providing extra assistance to individuals who need help both during and after their service career.
- Community Integration: enhancing integration between civilian and military populations, allowing the armed forces community to participate fully as citizens.
The Trust operates on a rolling multi-year grant-making strategy with active programmes. It currently has the following one programme open to applications:
- Together for Service Families: focuses on reducing impacts of separation and relocation (£5,000 to £75,000; closing 16 December 2026).
Further information and guidance on all of the Trust's open programmes, together with details about how to apply, can be found on the Armed Forces Covenant Fund Trust website.