Collaboration Lab online

Welcome to our Collaboration Lab online: your chance to help develop our next three-year grant strategy, which will shape the grants we make from April 2027-March 2030.

By answering the questions, you'll help us to test assumptions and get your feedback on the early draft priorities emerging from our evidence and gaps map. We welcome perspectives from your own experiences, or from your organisation if you support people with lived experience. You might be responding from an organisation which wants to give more support to the armed forces community, or to provide a better service.

Before you start, you might want to remind yourself of what the Armed Forces Covenant is. We can only fund projects which respond to disadvantage or special consideration as defined by the Covenant - that's our remit from the Ministry of Defence. We can't fund statutory services.

These first questions help us understand a bit about you. You don't have to answer all of them if you don't want to, but they are invaluable to help us understand perspectives from and experiences of different groups of people, and to see where there are similarities and differences.

Question Title

* 1. About you: what best describes your interest in the armed forces community's needs? If you think more than one category applies to you, choose the one which reflects your interest most strongly

I'm a member of the armed forces community myself (I'm a serving person or veteran / I'm a partner of a serving person or veteran / I'm the child or other family member of a serving person or veteran / I was bereaved due to service)

I'm thinking of joining the armed forces, or I'm in a relationship with someone thinking about joining the armed forces

I work for a third sector organisation providing services or support to the community

I'm a researcher

I work in central or local government

I work for the NHS

I work for a think-tank

I think my organisation needs to know more about the community

Other (please specify)