This Christmas, will you give the gift of hope to veterans and their families struggling to find a safe and comfortable place to call home?
In the last two years SSAFA's Forcesline has seen an almost 40% increase in the number of people in desperate need of housing. Veterans and their families being evicted from their homes, and spiralling rents creating massive uncertainty and fear for the future.
Bill Grant, our Forcesline Manager explains: “I think the housing crisis in this country is under-reported and many members of the ex-forces community are facing very difficult times in terms of finding and retaining a place to live.
“We had a call recently from an 89-year-old ex-soldier who told us he had been given notice to leave the house he and his wife had lived in for 27 years. To hear his tears was crippling. We must do all we can to help those in a situation that will, very sadly, only get worse.”
So SSAFA is asking our supporters: can you help us provide hope this Christmas?