Making Chinese Decorations – taking part in VOS wellbeing activities helps improve your mood!

Chris Kimber was the lead VOS volunteer on the day at this interesting Chinese Lantern Making VOS workshop with Lucy Field and Claire Beadnell from Craftfabulous! The workshop is part of our wellbeing programme and took place in the Royal Maritime Hotel’s Quarterdeck Room. Chris has kindly shared his thought about this workshop and more generally the […]
Funding from the Armed Forces Covenant Trust Fund will boost support for veteran communities across the South East region

Veterans Outreach Support (VOS) has been awarded £766,000 of funding by the Armed Forces Covenant Trust Fund’s (AFCFT) Thrive Together programme (formerly Veterans Places, Pathways and People – VPPP) to further develop support to meet the diverse needs of veteran communities who live across the United Kingdom, along with nine other regional partners across the […]
Tree Planting Ceremony pays tribute to fallen Portsmouth soldiers on 80th D-Day Anniversary

VOS Chairman, John Scivier, recently attended the D-Day 80th Anniversary Commemoration Tree Planting ceremony held at the D-Day Memorial Wood in Port Solent. This is one of a several D-Day 80th anniversary commemorative events across the area to honour all those who took part in the Normandy landings. This operation saw tens of thousands of […]
Christmas Meal Resources Across Portsmouth and the Isle of Wight

Free Christmas season meals across our region are now on – please feel free to attend them and share this post to help us spread the word! You never know who may benefit. Whether you are a veteran in Portsmouth, the Isle of Wight, Gosport, Fareham/the Solent area, a family member to one, or just […]