Armed Forces Families Fund

(asked on 14th April 2023) - View Source

Question to the Ministry of Defence:

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether the armed forces families fund is budgeted by (a) financial or (b) calendar year.


Answered by
Andrew Murrison Portrait
Andrew Murrison
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Ministry of Defence)
This question was answered on 24th April 2023

The Armed Forces Families Fund is managed and administered by the Armed Forces Covenant Trust (AFCT) on behalf of Defence who fund the scheme. Defence sets the themes for the scheme’s funding criteria, which is then delivered by the AFCT. The funding is based on financial rather than calendar years and is subject to the same annual budgetary cycle checks and assurances as all other expenditure within Defence. The first round of funding concluded in March this year and publicly available details on the applications and funding were released by the AFCT (see link: https://covenantfund.org.uk/projects-weve-supported/) which showed:

Early Years programme: 18 grants totalling £903,546

Supporting Partners programme: 12 grants totalling £483,144

Education Support programme: 54 grants totalling £2,045,593

In addition, a grant of £119,647 was awarded to SSAFA over a two-year period for the e-Redbook project.

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