Abstract: In November 2014, the Directory of Social Change (DSC) published Sector Insight: UK armed forces charities – An overview and analysis (Pozo and Walker, 2014). Funded by Forces in Mind Trust (FiMT), this was the first detailed analysis of armed forces charities in the UK. Since then, DSC has published Sector Insight: Armed forces charities in Scotland – An overview and analysis (Cole and Traynor, 2016) and six Focus On reports detailing specific topics of provision from armed forces charities (Cole et al., 2017; Doherty et al., 2017, 2018a, 2018b, 2019; Robson et al., 2019). Now, six years on, this report provides a new and definitive analysis of armed forces charities.
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