With You With Me
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 With You With Me 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 With You With Me 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:

We also pledge the following:

WYWM will employ no less than 70% (currently 100% in the UK workforce) of veterans within its workforce We will continue to drive a campaign to support getting veteran spouses, partners and dependents upskilled and into work WYWM will provide free psychometric and aptitude testing for the forces family WYWM will deliver free digital training from a choice of 22 digital courses, certified by the American National Standards Institute. GCHQ certified cyber training will be given for free to anybody who has served only 1 day in the forces Our free training asks for no return on service from the forces community WYWM has a dedicated team available to speak to veterans and explore opportunities (Veterans Success Team) To work with Defence by highlighting that WithYouW ithMe employees will be supported if they choose to join the Reserves Work w ith CTP on Veteran employment opportunities WYWM will offer short notice leave to support any spouse or partner of a deploying services person where possible We will continue to speak at CTP events to offer opportunities for service leavers WYWM will work with charities within this area to offer Work Placements to support “back to work” initiatives WYWM will continue to promote employment and training opportunities with Forces Families Jobs WYWM will supporting reservists with additional leave in order for them to honour their days of service and R&R leave periods Armed forces day and Remembrance Sunday will be marked with a company conflict period story exchange and social media messaging

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.