Style for Soldiers
We, the undersigned, commit to honour the Armed Forces Covenant and support the Armed Forces Community. We recognise the value Serving Personnel, both Regular and Reservists, Veterans and military families contribute to our business and our country.
The Armed Forces Covenant
An enduring covenant between the people of the United Kingdom, Her Majesty’s Government and all those who serve or have served in the Armed Forces of the Crown and their families
The first duty of Government is the defence of the realm. Our Armed Forces fulfil that responsibility on behalf of the Government, sacrificing some civilian freedoms, facing danger and, sometimes, suffering serious injury or death as a result of their duty. Families also play a vital role in supporting the operational effectiveness of our Armed Forces. In return, the whole nation has a moral obligation to the members of the Naval Service, the Army and the Royal Air Force, together with their families. They deserve our respect and support, and fair treatment.
Those who serve in the Armed Forces, whether Regular or Reserve, those who have served in the past, and their families, should face no disadvantage compared to other citizens in the provision of public and commercial services. Special consideration is appropriate in some cases, especially for those who have given most such as the injured and the bereaved.
This obligation involves the whole of society: it includes voluntary and charitable bodies, private organisations, and the actions of individuals in supporting the Armed Forces. Recognising those who have performed military duty unites the country and demonstrates the value of their contribution. This has no greater expression than in upholding this Covenant.
Section 1: Principles of the Armed Forces Corporate Covenant
1.1 We Style for Soldiers will endeavour in our business dealings to uphold the key principles of the Armed Forces Covenant, which are:
- no member of the Armed Forces Community should face disadvantage in the provision of public and commercial services compared to any other citizen;
- and in some circumstances that special treatment may be appropriate especially for the injured or bereaved.
Section 2: Demonstrating our commitment
2.1 Style for Soldiers recognises the value serving personnel, reservists, veterans and military families bring to our business. We will seek to uphold the principles of the Armed Forces Covenant, by pledging to the following:
- UK Service Veterans And Leavers
- UK Service Spouses And Partners
- UK Wounded, Injured And Sick
We also pledge the following:
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By profiling inspirational injured serving personnel and their partners and families, as well profiling inspirational injured veterans, their partners and families through our social media, website and emailers to supporters of Style for Soldiers.
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Style for Soldiers has provided sponsorship, contacts and education for several injured veterans into new careers and our quarterly reunions provide a safe, familiar place with veterans facing similar life changing injuries both psychological and physical, to build their social confidence again, as well as the confidence to attend interviews.
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Style for Soldiers provides four reunions a year for over 400 former patients of Headley Court Rehabilitation Hospital, their wives, husbands, partners and children, which help keep this community stay connected and successfully forges new friendships. The charity has been hosting the reunions for over 15 years now and many call Style for Soldiers a ‘family’ and have said it has become vital to their wellbeing and support.
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We believe Style for Soldiers quarterly reunions have become vital to the psychological health and wellbeing of many injured service personnel, veterans and those partners who help care for them. We also partner with Op Restore and promote all Op Restore events and literature through our far reaching emails to the former Headley Court patients, who mainly attended the Complex Trauma Units. Former Headley Court Rehabilitation Hospital surgeons, physios, Liason Officers and Personal Recovery Officers also attend the charity’s reunions, keeping them well connected with the injured service personnel and injured veteran community.
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Style for Soldiers has provided University Degree education for injured veterans, to help into new careers.
2.2 We will publicise these commitments through our literature and/or on our website, setting out how we will seek to honour them and inviting feedback from the Service community and our customers on how we are doing.