A befriending service to provide support and advice to ex servicemen and women in the Highlands has been launched today.
Legion Scotland’s wellbeing service is aimed at those who have just left the Royal Navy, Army, or Royal Air Force.
Scotland’s biggest veteran’s membership charity has set up the new national service as a first point of contact to help veterans of all ages and backgrounds to settle back into civilian life.
There are some 410,000 veterans in Scotland, almost 8% of the population.
The wellbeing service will provide friendship, advice and connect veterans into local services that can help them cope with changes after leaving military life.
The new service, which was awarded £10,000 funding from the Scottish Government’s Scottish Veterans Fund, will also offer veterans the chance to benefit from the charity’s comradeship activities and free wellbeing and pensions support.
The launch of the wellbeing service comes as the charity announced its new brand, Legion Scotland, as part of a drive to modernise and better meet the changing needs of the ex-service community whether they served 50 years ago or yesterday.
