The UK Afghanistan Veterans Community - AVC

05/06/2026

📣Want to help us with the click of a button? Then why not nominate us for a cash draw from the Benefact Group Movement for Good?

✅The Benefact Group Movement for Good is your chance to help them give away their profits to good causes.

🥇This is our chance to win £1,000! The nomination form is on the website and you should also select "Community" as the charity type (this gets us entry to the next available £5k draw this month as well as the regular £1k)

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04/06/2026

The Queen Elizabeth Digital Memorial is a new website to map the key moments in the life and reign of Queen Elizabeth, as a permanent record for future generations.

How do you remember Queen Elizabeth? People across the UK, the Commonwealth and beyond are invited to map their memories of Britain's longest reigning monarch.

Do you have a memory of Queen Elizabeth?

04/06/2026

The Queen Elizabeth Digital Memorial is a new website to map the key moments in the life and reign of Queen Elizabeth, as a permanent record for future generations.

How do you remember Queen Elizabeth? People across the UK, the Commonwealth and beyond are invited to map their memories of Britain's longest reigning monarch.

Do you have a memory of Queen Elizabeth? Share your story at www.queenelizabeth.com

19/05/2026

3 spots have just come up for this Thursday evening's 2hour online Mental Health Awareness Course!

With others fully booked, and the project coming to a close soon, this could be your last opportunity to sign up! And it's free!

email [email protected] and we will get you the joining instructions immediately over to you (first come first served!).

14/05/2026

It's mental health awareness week and we are empowering our community.

A free spot has just come up on one of the two Mental Health Awareness Courses we are delivering next week as part of Op Safe Circle. This is completely free, online and delivered on Teams, next Thursday evening 1700-1900hrs! You will also get a CPD Certificate.

To grab it, email [email protected] (first come first served). We also have a couple of spots on our June and July courses

Open to Veterans, Serving, Civil Servants and Family members with a connection to service in Afghanistan.

08/05/2026

🇬🇧VE Day. We pause and remember the sacrifices of our forebears.

Last year we had the huge honour and privilege of being in the company of WW2 Veterans and their families at Westminster Abbey. All part of the nation’s celebration of VE80.

We also held a Veterans Breakfast where we were proud to host Louise Sandher-Jones shortly before she was appointed Veterans & People Minister.

This Afghan generation will never forget the sacrifices and the freedoms provided to us by the VE generation.

22/04/2026

𝐎𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐒𝐚𝐟𝐞 𝐂𝐢𝐫𝐜𝐥𝐞- 𝐒𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐲𝐭𝐞𝐥𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐈𝐧𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐞- 𝐡𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐠𝐨𝐭 𝐚 𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐲 𝐭𝐨 𝐭𝐞𝐥𝐥?

Phase two of Op Safe Circle sees us turn to the art of storytelling, delivered by experts in arts recovery The Drive Project, who have over 15 years experience delivering creative arts and storytelling projects

✅recruitment of 12 Afghanistan Veterans
✅inviting you to share your ‘Stories of Service’.
✅guided online and in-person training to develop storytelling and public speaking skills

As places are limited to 12 and fully funded thanks to the support of Boeing as one of their community partners, you will be expected if successful, to commit to a combination of online training, and a 2 day workshop in London on 8/9 June.

👉For full details, click the Expression of Interest form below, that will guide you through the criteria, link here: https://form.jotform.com/261093120773351

𝐃𝐄𝐀𝐃𝐋𝐈𝐍𝐄 𝐅𝐎𝐑 𝐄𝐎𝐈 𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐩𝐥𝐞𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐬𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧- 𝟐𝟕 𝐀𝐩𝐫𝐢𝐥 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟔

16/04/2026

Some news from our friends at the RBL. We look forward to hosting our 3rd Annual Remembering Afghanistan this October… more details to follow.

We are pleased to announce today that from September 2026 the National Memorial Arboretum will be known as the Royal British Legion National Remembrance Gardens.

The RBL has been the Arboretum’s parent charity since 2003, and the two charities recently merged as one. The name change is inspired by RBL’s vision to bring society together to recognise, remember, and support the Armed Forces community and reflects the site’s role at the centre of our Remembrance work.

Since it opened to the public 25 years ago, the destination has grown into a beautiful and inspiring place where everyone can celebrate lives lived and remember lives lost and welcomes more than 300,000 visitors each year. As part of our aims to evolve Remembrance and widen participation, the site will bring more people together to reflect, learn and remember service and sacrifice.

RBL National Remembrance Gardens describes a place that invites people in, not just to reflect, but to take an active part in Remembrance.

The Arboretum’s founder, Commander (Rtd) David Childs CBE, has expressed his strong support for the development, praising RBL for its stewardship of the site and how it has helped it flourish.

From a seed of an idea to the nation’s year-round place to remember, the Arboretum has been shaped by the people who care for it. That shared commitment from employees, volunteers, supporters and communities will continue as it enters its next chapter as the RBL National Remembrance Gardens.

14/04/2026

👉We have a spot available on this coming Thursday evening's Mental Health Awareness Course with March on Stress

The course is delivered on Teams, just two hours long (1700-1900hrs) and you'll get a course certificate at the end.

To grab a spot, email [email protected] and we will get your loaded on (first come first served!).

Huge thanks to Boeing for their support.

14/04/2026

💛A hugely deep and personal post from our very own amazing Padre, Rev Clare.

So thought provoking and we thank her for her vulnerability and guidance. Words like these, from lived experiences, help our community enormously.