After the Military
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 After the Military 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 After the Military 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
- UK Cadets
- Armed Forces Day
- Discounts
We also pledge the following:

-After the military is a skills training, career coaching and recruitment services business . We champion the value to local employers, and those further afield, of hiring ex servicemen and woman speaking with CEOs, managing directors and HR people in small to medium sized enterprises and larger organisations as well. -We offer discounted training programmes in terms of professional coaching, skills training and mentoring support for ex-forces personnel enabling them to market their skills gained in the military more effectively to find new and fulfilling careers. Aligned with this, we offer career and job search skills and training to spouses, partners and other family members who have decided to pursue their own independent career path. -We provide competitively priced, bespoke recruitment services to companies with vacancies where the client wants to gain access to ex-forces personnel because their leadership, technical and communication skills have been honed in the military are transferable into the civilian world of work. -We promote the cause of finding employment for ex forces personnel by delivering our tailored training and coaching programmes, leveraging its connections with clients and other local businesses via its recruitment services -We will promote the AFC on our website home page, our social media platform, marketing and promotional literature plus by word of mouth by clients, other local organisations and new contacts that we make - We consider it our duty to deliver programmes that cater for the needs of ex service community eg. we believe that people who find themselves to adverse circumstances eg. poor health, housing issues/debt/relationship breakdown deserve an equal opportunity to get back into employment and we encourage anyone to talk to us -We have specialist contacts with whom we can refer people to if their circumstances are severe enough to need a medical opinion and support to complement their endeavours to get back into work

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.