Alabaré’s Bristol Home for Veterans to open this month
Alabaré’s Bristol Home for Veterans, a supported housing project exclusively for homeless and vulnerable ex-Service men and women, is set to open this month.
Thanks to support from ABF The Soldiers Charity and the RAF Association, and a number of other smaller trusts, Alabaré’s Bristol Home for Veterans is set to open its doors on the 15th November.
An official opening event will be held at a later date, the details of which will be forwarded once made available.
Alabaré’s Bristol Home for Veterans, which is in the Filton area, will offer a unique combination of accommodation and support to ex-Service personnel who are struggling to adjust to civilian life. The house will provide a safe and supportive environment in which veterans can rebuild confidence and develop essential skills whilst working towards living independently again.
The Royal British Legion reports that each week in Bristol, at least six veterans are referred to them needing accommodation and support.
Support will be provided in areas such as education, employment and housing, and veterans will be encouraged to access specialist help for issues such as Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, other mental health conditions or drug and alcohol addiction. Veterans will also be able to develop life skills such as budgeting and maintaining a home, skills they may never have needed whilst serving in the Forces.
Alabaré Bristol Home for Veterans will be based on the model of the charity’s Plymouth Home for Veterans, which opened in partnership with The Royal British Legion in 2009. Within its first week of opening the project was full and demand for places has remained extremely high.
A third veterans’ project is being opened with the support of The Royal British Legion in Weymouth later in the year.
Alabaré plans to continue the expansion of its veterans’ programme of support, with the opening of further projects across the South and South West.
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