Community Drug and Alcohol Recovery Services
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 Community Drug and Alcohol Recovery Services 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 Community Drug and Alcohol Recovery Services 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:
- UK Service Veterans And Leavers
- UK Service Spouses And Partners
We also pledge the following:
- Increasing public awareness and positive perception. 2. Design and deliver presentation and training to professional of other organisation, mak-ing them aware of how to best support armed forces and work veterans and their family members. 3. Raise funds to provide services for families and veterans. 4. Improve veterans welfare by developing better and through advocacy. 2. We design and deliver ETE, IT and employment skills training programme de-signed for veterans and their family members. 1. We do offer support programme of counselling, support groups, health and well-being programme, substance and alcohol misuse support, psychosocial services, drop-in services, outing days, suicide prevention, mental health and PTSD support to veterans and their family members. 2. We offer direct advocacy and links to local housing advice, housing associations and work directly in partnership with local housing associations specialist for veterans, and support veterans and their family members to get suitable accommodations. 4. We support veterans and their family members on a linger term basis, to support them to reengage with their local community by offering one to one counselling, support groups, psychosocial support services, community engagement work, outreach, home visits, escorting veterans, advocacy and by working in partnership with many other local organisations, churches and various institutions.
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.