Serving Personnel

The Defence Medical Welfare Service offers professional, compassionate support to members of the Armed Forces, veterans, and their families during times of medical need. Whether in hospital or at home, DMWS’s welfare officers provide practical help and emotional support, ensuring no one faces health challenges alone. 

Home-Start helps Armed Forces families with young children particularly at times of heightened anxieties. These might include key transition points of rebasing, deployment and transition. Volunteers support families who are facing a range of challenges including isolation, as they move away from their existing support networks of families and friends. Some local Home-Starts offer groups where parents and children can meet together. This support is for parents where one or both are serving in the Royal Navy or Royal Marines.

In partnership with RNRMC, Marriage Care are seeking to relieve the relationship distress that presents challenges to the wellbeing of RNRM personnel and their families. Our hope is that opportunities to discuss the unique pressures on relationships presented by Naval service, to explore how, when and why relationships can come under stress, and what can help, will improve and strengthen couple relationships, and, where relevant, the families who depend upon them. We hope that this preventative opportunity may reduce the need for counselling.

Relate is the UK's largest provider of relationship support. Through our funding, they provide free face-to-face, online and telephone counselling to serving and former personnel and their families. This includes help with relationships, help with family life and parenting, help with separation, and divorce and help for children, young people, and young adults. It also includes bereavement and loss support, should the worst happen.

The Royal Naval Association provides companionship, comradeship and unity to everyone with a naval story, supporting them through life’s highs and lows.