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<p>The Armed Forces Covenant Fund has £10 million per year to support Armed Forces
communities and has four broad funding themes: removing barriers to family life; extra
support after service for those that need help; measures to integrate military and
civilian communities and allow the Armed Forces community to participate as citizens;
non-core healthcare services for veterans.</p><p>The Fund is delivered by the Armed
Forces Covenant Fund Trust, and Trustees decide on programme recommendations which
are submitted to the cross-government Covenant Reference Group (CRG). Following approval
by the CRG, these are delivered as priorities. Open and transparent criteria is published
in the programme guidance documents and interested organisations apply in line with
the published criteria. Applications are assessed, and expert advice may be sought
where appropriate. Decisions on grants are made by the Trustees, and when funding
is limited, grants are awarded to those applications which are based on a national
portfolio perspective.</p>
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