The South Yorkshire Armed Forces Covenant Project Model

Summary: In 2017, a partnership between Sheffield City Council, Rotherham, Doncaster and Barnsley Metropolitan Borough Council's, Sheffield Hallam University and York St John University bid successfully for a Covenant Fund grant. The South Yorkshire Armed Forces Covenant project was designed to; raise the awareness of Covenant initiatives and dedicated services availability; produce local authority Covenant Action Plans and a regional Action Plan; enhance ownership of the process and improve connections across the region; commission military awareness training for front-line staff in South Yorkshire; produce the South Yorkshire model for strengthening the regional delivery of covenant pledges, ensuring a lasting and replicable project legacy; the project began in consultation with the Armed Forces community across the region, which informed the development of a community-specific regional survey tool. The regional community survey results informed the local authority and regional Covenant Action planning events.