Website https://www.lightningreach.org/
Lightning Reach is a financial support portal which enables access to a range of personalised support (e.g. grants, benefits, help with bills) - all in one place.
Lightning Reach Portal
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Introduction 1
Aging 19
- Advice - Age UK
- Advice - Age UK - Operation Sterling
- Advice - Age Scotland - Support for Older LGBT+ Veterans
- Advice - Age Scotland - Unforgotten Forces directory
- Advice - Age Scotland - Veterans Guide to later life
- Advice - Care Aware
- Advice - Carehome
- Advice - Dementia UK
- Advice - Elderly Accommodation Counsel (EAC)
- Advice - Essentials of safe, independent living for seniors
- Advice - First Stop
- Befriending - Silver Line
- Care - Friends of the Elderly
- Care - Royal Voluntary Service Dementia Support
- Shopping - Morrisons Doorstep Delivery Service
- Veteran Care Home - Chelsea Pensioners / Royal Hospital Chelsea (Army Veterans only)
- Veteran Care home - COBSEO – The Confederation of Service Charities
- Veteran Care Home - Royal Star and Garter Homes
- Veteran Care Home - The Royal British Legion Care Homes (including day, respite and dementia care)
Assistance Providers 16
- ABF - Army Benevolent Fund The Soldier's Charity
- ATS & WRAC – Auxiliary Territorial Service & Women’s Royal Army Corps Association Benevolent Fund
- BLESMA - British Limbless Ex-Service Men's Association
- Greenwich Hospital (RN & RM)
- MNWB - Merchant Navy Welfare Board
- NCC - Naval Children's Charity
- OA - The Officers’ Association Benevolent Fund
- Poppy Scotland
- RBT - The Rifles Benevolent Trust
- RAFBF - Royal Airforce Benevolence Fund
- RFAA - Royal Fleet Auxiliary Association
- RNBT - Royal Navy Benevolent Trust
- RNOC - Royal Navy Officers Charity
- RNRMC - Royal Navy and Royal Marines Charity
- TRBL - The Royal British Legion
- WRNS - Women’s Royal Naval Service Benevolent Trust
Bereavement & Funerals 7
Finance: Benefits, Debt, Grants, Pensions 33
- Advice - Money Helper
- Advice - Tax Vol
- Advice - The Money Charity
- Benefits - Entitled to Benefits calculator
- Benefits - Government Benefit & Pension Rates 2024-2025
- Benefits - Government Benefits calculator
- Benefits - Government Benefits information
- Benefits - Housing Benefit and Council Tax Benefit manual
- Benefits - Turn2us
- Children - NHS Healthy Start
- Cost of Living - Government support and advice
- Cost of Living - Fuel Bank
- Cost of Living - Fuel Direct – a guide for energy suppliers
- Cost of Living - HEAT by the Wise Group
- Cost of Living - Help for Households Scheme
- Cost of Living - Help from your Energy Supplier
- Cost of Living - Household Support Fund
- Cost of Living - Glasspool Charity Plus
- Cost of Living - Lightning Reach Portal
- Cost of Living - Reuse Network
- Cost of Living - SCOPE Disability Energy Support Service (England, Scotland & Wales)
- Debt - Age UK
- Debt - Christians Against Poverty
- Debt - Debt Advice Foundation
- Debt - Money Helper
- Debt - National Debt Line
- Debt - PayPlan
- Debt - Step Change
- Debt - The Royal British Legion Benefits and Money Advice Team
- Disabled Facility Grants DFG
- Pensions - Armed Forces Pension
- Seafarers SafetyNet
- The White Ensign Association
Finance: Discounts, Food, Travel 15
- AO Business
- Discounts - Blue Light Card
- Discounts - British Telecom
- Discounts - Defence Discount Service
- Discounts - Forces Discount
- Discounts - Hyperoptic
- Discounts - Virgin Media
- Food - Company Shops
- Food - Money Saving Expert
- Food - Olio
- Food - The Bread and Butter Thing (North of England)
- Food - Too Good to Go
- Travel - Bus Travel
- Travel - Disability-friendly holidays
- Travel - Veteran's Railcard
General Advice & Information 19
- Armed Forces Veterans Breakfast Clubs AFVBC
- Armed Forces Covenant
- Army Families Federation (AFF)
- Army LGBT+ Network
- Association of Service Drop-In Centres ASDIC
- CAB - Citizens Advice Bureau
- COBSEO
- Donated Goods
- RAF LGBT Freedom Network
- Royal Air Force
- Royal Navy Compass Network
- SAIL – Seafarers’ Advice & Information Line
- Seafarer Support
- SSAFA Mentoring
- Troopr
- Veterans’ Foundation
- Veterans’ Gateway – Support for veterans and their families
- Veterans ID Card
- Veterans Welfare Service VWS
Health: Addiction, Mental & Physical 33
- Battle Back Centre
- Campaign Against Living Miserably (CALM)
- Care - Royal Voluntary Service Dementia Support (copied)
- Combat Stress
- DMS - Defence Medical Service (Serving Personnel)
- DMWS - Defence Medical Welfare Service
- Forces Children's Trust FCT
- First Light Trust
- Forcesline, SSAFA
- Headspace
- Help for Heroes
- Hub of Hope - Mental Health database
- King Edward VII’s Hospital
- LEAP - fuel poverty
- Lightning Reach Portal
- MECC Online Toolkit - Make Every contact Count
- Military vs Cancer
- Motability Foundation
- Motability Scheme
- NHS
- Op COURAGE - the Veterans Mental Health and Wellbeing Service NHS
- Op RESTORE - The Veterans Physical and Wellbeing Service (England & Wales)
- PTSD Resolution
- Red Cross Wheel Chair Hire
- Togetherall
- Tom Harrison House - Addiction
- VAT Exemption
- Veteran Aware - hospitals, independents, hospices & care homes (England)
- Veteran’s Mobility Fund
- Walking with the Wounded
- Warrior Programme, The
- We Are With You - Addiction and Mental Health
- Young Minds - Mental Health Support
Housing & Homelessness 16
- Alabare Housing
- Bournemouth War Memorial Homes (BWMH)
- Concern for a rough sleeper/Risk of homelessness
- CRISIS
- Emmaus
- Gov.uk advice on accommodation
- Haig Housing
- Helping Homeless Veterans UK
- Local Authority Housing Register
- National Homelessness Advice Service (NHAS)
- Op FORTITUDE
- Scottish Veterans Residences - Supporting Homeless Veterans
- Shelter
- SSAFA - Stepping Stone
- STOLL and STOLL Veterans Nomination Scheme (VNS)
- The Royal British Legion Housing Support Guides (England, Scotland and Wales)
Military Charities, Regiments and Corps 86
- 1st The Queen’s Dragoon Guards
- Adjutant General’s Corps Association
- Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders Regimental Association
- Army Air Corps Charity
- Army Benevolent Fund
- Association of Jewish Ex-Servicemen & Women - AJEX
- ATS & WRAC Association Benevolent Fund
- Black Watch Association, The
- BLESMA - The Limbless Veterans
- Blind Veterans UK
- Blues and Royals Association, The
- Burma Star Memorial Fund
- Coldstream Guards Charity, The
- Duke of Lancaster's Regiment, The
- Far East Prisoner of War (FEPOW) Trust Funds
- Felix Fund – The Bomb Disposal Charity
- Fighting with Pride FWP
- Forces Children Scotland
- Forces Employment Charity, The
- Fusiliers Aid Society
- Greenwich Hospital (Royal Navy Charity)
- Grenadier Guards
- Guild of Benevolence of the Institute of Marine Engineering
- Gurkha Services, SSAFA
- Gurkha Welfare Advice Centre (UK)
- Help 4 Heroes
- Hampshire and Isle of Wight Military Aid Fund
- Honourable Artillery Company Benevolent Fund
- Intelligence Corps Association
- Irish Guards Charity, The
- King's Royal Hussars Regimental Trust, The
- Life Guards Association, The
- The Not Forgotten
- Light Dragoons Regimental Association Charitable Trust
- Merchant Navy Welfare Board
- Mercian Regiment Benevolence Charity
- Military Provost Staff Association
- Nautilus Welfare Fund
- Naval Children’s Charity
- Officers Association Benevolent Fund
- Officers Association Scotland
- Princess of Wales's Royal Regiment
- Queen's Royal Hussars
- RAFBF Royal Air Force Benevolent Fund
- RAFA Royal Air Force Association
- REME Charity, The
- Royal Anglian Regiment
- Royal Armoured Corps Memorial Trust
- Royal Army Medical Corps
- Royal Army Pay Corps
Non Military Charities 11
Training & Employment 20
- Alison
- BFBS - Social Media Training
- Building Heroes
- Entrain Space – employment and transition support
- Forces Employment Charity
- Forces Employment Charity Families Programme – employment support
- Forces Families Jobs
- Forces Transition Group
- Learning Curve Group
- Lifeworks - RBLI
- Open University
- Poppy Factory
- Project RECCE
- Redeployable
- SAS Institute
- TechVets
- Veteran's Army
- Veterans into Logistics
- With You With Me
- X-Forces