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 programmes open to applications:
Service Pupil Support Programme - grants of between £5,000 and £150,000 for projects which support service children along their educational pathway (closes 30 September 2026)
Reveal and Respond - grants of between £20,000 and £300,000 to enable access to appropriate mental health and wellbeing support for specific underrepresented groups within the armed forces community (closes 28 October 2026)
Family Focus - grants of between £100,000 and £200,000 to fund projects that help armed forces families with care needs to access support, improve wellbeing and resilience, and prepare for the future, either during service or transition and civilian life (closes 4 November 2026)
Together for Service Families - grants of between £5,000 and £75,000 to reduce the impact of service-related separation and relocation for families of serving personnel and reservists (closes 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 directly on the Armed Forces Covenant Fund Trust Website.