Wesleyan Assurance Society
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 Wesleyan Assurance Society 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 Wesleyan Assurance Society 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 Veterans And Leavers
- UK Service Spouses And Partners
- Flexible Leave For Spouses
- UK Reservists
We also pledge the following:

-Armed forces friendly: -publicise our covenant on forces financial website, display the logo on our websites, social media and in annual report and accounts -Publicise our commitments through our literature on website, setting out how we will seek to honour them and inviting feedback from the service community and customers on how we are doing -Explore how our workforce can contribute to the armed forces community through voluntary activities in Birmingham -Identify existing support services for the families and children of the armed forces community -Support the ongoing health and well-being of current and ex-service personnel -Spouses/partners: -Continue to support spouses/partners within the business and provide appropriate training and development -We will seek, where possible, to provide additional flexible working patterns that may fall outside current agree flexible working policy -We will sympathetically review requests for leave before, during or after a partners overseas deployment -We will consider special paid leave for employees who are bereaved or whose spouse/partner is injured -Reserves: -We will accommodate reservists training commitments where possible -We will, wherever possible, accommodate the mobilisation of our reservists if they are required to deploy -Veterans: -Where practical we will invite to interview, all service leavers and veteran applications who meet the selection criteria in a job specification -Provide opportunities for ex-service personnel to access employment and training

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.