Men and women from throughout the local area – volunteer to support your Armed Forces community, they need you!
This January SSAFA, the Armed Forces charity, is urging the people of Largs and surrounding area to build on their New Year’s resolutions and learn new skills, whilst giving something back to their local Armed Forces community, by becoming a new volunteer.
In 2016, volunteers for SSAFA Ayrshire supported 274 veterans and their families in need in the county. The military charity, which has supported currently serving members of our Armed Forces, veterans and their families for over 131 years, is seeing the requests for support from this group increase and become more complex.
SSAFA Ayrshire operates volunteer led support services based in Prestwick with a county-wide need for new volunteer caseworkers who directly deliver the support.
SSAFA volunteer caseworkers support members of the Armed Forces community in a range of ways, including visiting them in their homes, assessing their needs and building a bespoke package of support.
The charity provides support with issues such as – mobility, home repairs, household goods, homelessness, marriage breakdown, mental health problems, urgent debt support, essential food and groceries and clothing and training costs to help younger veterans back into work.
SSAFA can access funds for house adaptations for a service man or woman injured whilst fighting for their country.
Other important tasks carried out include befriending elderly veterans and providing them with some much-needed company and happiness to combat loneliness, and raising the rent for a young veteran unemployed and struggling to transition from military life to civilian life.