Plymouth Veterans and Family Hub

12/06/2026

Our Armed Forces Manager role is now live a great opportunity to work with the team to help develop our Valour Center 🇬🇧

🚨Job Vacancy Alert🚨

Armed Forces Community Manager

- Salary £29,356–£30,893
- 35 hours per week
- Closing date: Monday 29 June, 9am.

We're recruiting an Armed Forces Community Manager to lead the delivery of our new VALOUR Recognised Centre, supporting veterans and their families across Devon and Cornwall.

This is a significant role in our Armed Forces Community services, ensuring veterans and their support networks can access the right help at the right time.

Day-to-day you'll be managing service delivery across multiple locations, building relationships with partner organisations, overseeing a team of staff and volunteers, and making sure the programme is making a measurable difference to the people it serves.

Full details and how to apply are available online
👉https://wellbeinghub.improvinglives.org.uk/current-jobs/

10/06/2026

A huge thank you to the Armed Forces Covenant Fund Trust for funding a wonderful spa day and afternoon tea for some of our incredible unpaid carers.

The day was all about recognising and celebrating those who provide unwavering support to loved ones who are sick, wounded or injured as a result of military service. It was a small opportunity to give something back to people who give so much of themselves every day.

Unpaid carers truly are the backbone of our communities. Across the UK, an estimated 5.8–7 million people provide unpaid care to a family member or friend, and the value of that care is estimated at an incredible £184 billion every year – equivalent to funding a second NHS.

Despite their enormous contribution, many carers face significant challenges. Around one quarter of unpaid carers are not in paid employment because of their caring responsibilities, and almost half report experiencing negative impacts on their own health and wellbeing.

Today's event was a chance to say thank you, to provide some well-deserved respite, and to remind our carers that their dedication, compassion and sacrifice do not go unnoticed.

Thank you to every unpaid carer. Your strength, resilience and commitment help hold our communities together.

10/06/2026

We had such a lovely time at the SSAFA Plymouth Serving Community Team ball on Saturday, thank you Woollcombe Yonge Solicitors for the kind invite.
Supporting our Armed Forces community works best when we all work together ❤️

28/05/2026

The hub remains open this evening supporting the residents of Vauxhall street after a fire tore through their homes earlier this evening, as far as we know everyone is safe and being looked after at Improving Lives Plymouth City Centre Wellbeing Hub

23/04/2026

Yesterday, we spent the day in consultation with volunteers from our armed forces community, getting ground-level guidance on how we can make the new VALOUR centre work for you.

This is vital for the ongoing success of the VALOUR initiative. The only way this can work is if we know, from the exact people we are trying to reach, what isn’t working well at the moment and how they want it to work better.

Our focus then needs to be on getting to everyone in the community who needs support. How do we make younger ex-service members feel more included? How do we reach out to diverse veteran communities? How do we honour the specific experience of women veterans? How do we ensure veterans in small, remote places have the same information as those living in major urban hubs?

We need your engagement at every step, so please keep sharing! When you share your experience with us, you could help someone else facing the same challenges. Then we can try design a system that truly works for them, and for you.

In partnership with Veterans Outdoors and Veterans Regroup ❤

13/04/2026

We made the news across the county today - thanks to Plymouth Live Devon Live 😀

The new hub will offer joined-up support on housing, employment, health and wellbeing

02/04/2026

Our Unpaid Carers group had a most enjoyable visit to The Box for the Beryl Cook exhibition. Thanks to Ryan Graham in the Box Kitchen for the lovely buffet lunch they arranged for us.

25/03/2026

We are delighted to announce that, with the support of the Office for Veterans' Affairs in the Ministry of Defence, The Veterans Hub at Ernest English House will soon become one of the UK's 14 brand new VALOUR-Recognised Centres.

This makes us part of a wider national push for improved access to veterans' services, connecting ex-forces personnel with the health and wellbeing support they so deserve.

Supporting veterans and the whole of Plymouth's Armed Forces Community has always sat at the core of who we are and what we do. Now, this recognition will allow that work to grow, reach further, and help more of those in need.

Stay tuned for more information, or learn more about VALOUR-Recognised Centres here: https://www.gov.uk/guidance/valour-information-and-next-steps

06/03/2026

Are you a carer of a veteran wounded or sick due to service or a veteran who is a carer? We have limited places left so get in contact (details on the poster) if you wish to join us.

05/03/2026

Our Unpaid Carers enjoyed a relaxed afternoon viewing a vibrant slideshow of photography by Mark Symonds LRPS. We were treated to majestic mountain scenes, stunning landscapes and some wildlife as well as cityscapes from across Europe and beyond.