Welcome to Scotland: a guide for Service personnel and their families - updated 2023
Welcome to Scotland is a guide to support service personnel and their families upon their move to Scotland. Due to the moving nature of service personnel and their families they can be transferred to different bases. This booklet gives key information on what to expect when moving to Scotland.
Supporting You
The Scottish Government greatly values and supports our Armed Forces personnel, veterans and families and recognises the contribution they make to their communities. We have a great network of organisations in Scotland, which can help and support serving personnel and their families. For example:
Forces Children Scotland
Forces Children Scotland help children and young people from serving, reservist and veteran families across Scotland grow in confidence, develop new skills and gain valuable experiences by co-producing projects and services to support mental health and wellbeing, education and learning and putting their unique experiences on the radar of civilian audiences.
Support in these areas can be found at Forces Children Scotland.
Family Federations
There are three Family Federations representing each of the three services, Navy, Army and RAF. Each of the Family Federations is independent from the services and works to improve the quality of life for Service families around the world – on any aspect that is affected by the military lifestyle.
They also provide a signposting service to help you find the right person to speak to, as well as providing useful information for Service families.
More information on the individual Family Federations can be found via:
Naval Family Federation
Phone: 023 9265 4374
Website: https://nff.org.uk/
Army Family Federation
Phone: 01264 554004
Website: https://aff.org.uk/
RAF Family Federation
Phone: 01780 781650
Website: www.raf-ff.org.uk/
Veterans Scotland
Address: New Haig House, Logie Green Rd, Edinburgh EH7 4HR
Phone: 0131 550 1569
Website: http://www.veteransscotland.co.uk/
Legion Scotland
Address: New Haig House, Logie Green Road, Edinburgh EH7 4HQ
Phone: 0131 550 1583 Website: www.legionscotland.org.uk
PoppyScotland
Address: New Haig House, Edinburgh EH7 4HQ
Phone: 0131 557 2782
Website: www.poppyscotland.org.uk/
Glasgow Helping Heroes
Address: 840-860 Govan Road, Glasgow G51 3UU
Phone: 0141 276 7199
Website: www.glasgowshelpingheroes.org/
Armed Forces Covenant
Website: www.armedforcescovenant.gov.uk
Support in Mind Scotland
Address: 6 Newington Business Centre, Dalkeith Road Mews, Edinburgh EH16 5GA P
hone: 0300 323 1545
Website: Mental Health & Money Advice service - Health and Well-being (nhsinform.scot)
SSAFA The Armed Forces Charity
Phone: 0131 557 1697
Website: www.ssafa.org.uk/
Armed Service Advice Project (ASAP)
Phone: 0808 800 1007
Website: www.adviceasap.org.uk/
Shelter Scotland Address: Scotiabank House, 6 South Charlotte Street, Edinburgh EH2 4AW Phone: 0808 800 4444 Website: https://scotland.shelter.org.uk/
Contact
Email: veteransunit@gov.scot
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