King's School Taunton Limited
Source: gov.uk (2025-11-10)

We, the undersigned, commit to honour the Armed Forces Covenant and support the Armed Forces Community. We recognise the value Serving Personnel, both Regular and Reservists, Veterans and military families contribute to our business and our country.

The Armed Forces Covenant

An enduring covenant between the people of the United Kingdom, Her Majesty’s Government and all those who serve or have served in the Armed Forces of the Crown and their families

The first duty of Government is the defence of the realm. Our Armed Forces fulfil that responsibility on behalf of the Government, sacrificing some civilian freedoms, facing danger and, sometimes, suffering serious injury or death as a result of their duty. Families also play a vital role in supporting the operational effectiveness of our Armed Forces. In return, the whole nation has a moral obligation to the members of the Naval Service, the Army and the Royal Air Force, together with their families. They deserve our respect and support, and fair treatment.

Those who serve in the Armed Forces, whether Regular or Reserve, those who have served in the past, and their families, should face no disadvantage compared to other citizens in the provision of public and commercial services. Special consideration is appropriate in some cases, especially for those who have given most such as the injured and the bereaved.

This obligation involves the whole of society: it includes voluntary and charitable bodies, private organisations, and the actions of individuals in supporting the Armed Forces. Recognising those who have performed military duty unites the country and demonstrates the value of their contribution. This has no greater expression than in upholding this Covenant.

Section 1: Principles of the Armed Forces Corporate Covenant

1.1 We King’s School Taunton Limited will endeavour in our business dealings to uphold the key principles of the Armed Forces Covenant, which are:
- no member of the Armed Forces Community should face disadvantage in the provision of public and commercial services compared to any other citizen;
- and in some circumstances that special treatment may be appropriate especially for the injured or bereaved.
Section 2: Demonstrating our commitment

2.1 King’s School Taunton Limited recognises the value serving personnel, reservists, veterans and military families bring to our business. We will seek to uphold the principles of the Armed Forces Covenant, by pledging to the following:
- Armed Forces Friendly
- UK Service Spouses And Partners
- Flexible Leave For Spouses
- UK Reservists
- UK Cadets
- Armed Forces Day
We also pledge the following:

promoting the fact that we are an armed forces-friendly organisation; using the Covenant and Employer Recognition Scheme logos in our communications and marketing. striving to support the employment of Service spouses and partners; endeavouring to offer a degree of flexibility in granting leave for Service spouses and partners before, during and after a partners deployment; seeking to support our employees who choose to be members of the Reserve forces, including by accommodating their training and deployment where possible; offering support to our local cadet units, either in our local community or in local schools, where possible; offering additional (paid/unpaid) annual leave to Cadet Force Adult Volunteers to help them carry out their training requirement; supporting and offering a discount on school fees to serving members of the Armed Forces Community; supporting the children of members of the Armed Forces who qualify for Continuity of Education Allowance; supporting and promoting the wellbeing of Service children, recognising the particular experiences and challenges they may face. appointing an Armed Forces Champion within our school to act as a focal point for organising and promoting support for our Armed Forces families; sympathetically reviewing requests for holiday or leave where Armed Forces families are impacted by deployments; recognising and supporting Remembrance Day through educating our pupils and others aiming to actively participate in Armed Forces Day and the Royal British Legions Poppy Appeal;

2.2 We will publicise these commitments through our literature and/or on our website, setting out how we will seek to honour them and inviting feedback from the Service community and our customers on how we are doing.