Veterans at Ease Because Military Minds Matter

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Veterans at EaseBecause Military Minds Matter

• An Overview
• 2013

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Aim

• To relieve the mental and physical sickness of
  military and civil emergency veterans and their
  families through the provision of support,
  counselling and other activities throughout the
  United Kingdom
• (Sourced from Constitution of Veterans at Ease)
• Other Aims
• To involve beneficiaries in their local
  communities by becoming volunteers for VAE
• To involve beneficiaries members of the local
  community in the strategic running of the charity
• To employ appropriate beneficiaries as NLP
  therapists after they have been helped and after
  appropriate training
• To work with other agencies to increase the
  awareness and services of Veterans at Ease

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Values

• Veterans helping veterans
• Families
• Re-connecting with local communities

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Set Up

• Started in early September 2010
• Constitution adopted on 23rd September 2010
• CO Qualified as NLP Practitioner Feb 2011
• Achieved Charity Status 18th March 2011
• Incorporated as a company Ltd by Guarantee April
  2011
• CO Qualified as NLP Master Practitioner March
  2012
• John Taylor came on board as 2nd therapist in Jan
  2012 now on his last module of Master NLP
  Practitioner.

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Patrons

• Previous Lord Lieutenant of County Durham, Sir
  Paul Nicholson
• Bob Stewart DSO and MP for Beckenham
• Roger Uttley OBE
• Sir John Burn
• Michael Horswill

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Trustees

• Marie Dooley Chair
• Paul Atkinson Treasurer
• John Heaps Secretary
• Carol Gaskarth Trustee
• John Dale - Trustee

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The Size of the Problem

• 1 in 12 people in North East is a veteran
• 213,000 veterans
• 30 may be suffering from combat related mental
  illness (PTSD)
• 90,000 sufferers in North East alone and thats
  after -
• 6000 servicemen and women leave the armed forces
  every year and resettle in North East!
• UK figures equate to approx 2.3 Million!

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Therapy Results

• Neuro Linguistic Programming (NLP)
• Since Feb 2011
• 74 Beneficiaries helped out of 78
• 95 success rate
• 1-8 hours

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Achievements

• Helped 76 beneficiaries
• Successful research trip in States Canada, WCMT
• Linking in with other organisations
• 5 highly motivated and experienced trustees
  driving the charity forward.
• Garreth awarded County Durhams Chairmans
  certificate for outstanding community service
• John met with the Queen
• Hidden battles film produced
• Interview in SF produced for free
• County Durham community foundation Outstanding
  Achievement Award 2012.
• Starting a research programme

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Working with other agencies

• Kings College London
• Durham University
• Benfield Motor Group
• Royal Regiment of Fusiliers
• North Durham University Hospital
• DEDES CCG
• NECA Darlington
• NECA - Durham
• Awaken Ltd, NLP training
• Veterans Retreat
• SHAID
• Northumberland ACF
• Durham ACF
• Durham ATC
• North East Veterans Network
• Red Rose Internet
• Durham New College
• NLP R R

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Hidden Battles
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Thank you for your time

• Any Questions?