Current projects
Interested in our current projects? Then read on to find out how we’re changing lives across the local community.
Active Plus in the community
Active Plus delivers a range of projects across the local community that are tailored to the aims and objectives of our funders. As a social enterprise we strive to achieve a balanced income from grants, contracts and sales, reinvesting profits into developing our business so that we can support more injured military veterans through our volunteer pathway and on into employment with Active Plus or elsewhere.
Supporting Injured Military Veterans is a cross-cutting theme, and the heart of our business. Our unique delivery model means that unlike many other charities and community interest companies, we are not dependent on grants or donations to fund our work with veterans. Instead we use the skills and experience they gained whilst serving in the armed forces, supporting and developing them to deliver courses that not only generate our income but also prove life-changing for participants and veterans alike.
Current projects
Military Partners Career Pathways
Fee tailored one-to-one support provided by a lived-experience Military Partner Change Coach
Military Partners Career Pathways is a targeted employment and wellbeing programme supporting partners of serving Armed Forces personnel and reservists across Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly. Delivered between March 2026 and March 2028, the project provides tailored one-to-one coaching and peer support through a Change Coach with lived experience of military family life.
The programme is designed to address the unique barriers military partners face, including disrupted career progression, social isolation, reduced confidence, and limited access to training and employment opportunities.
Through personalised support, participants will be helped to identify transferable skills, build confidence, improve wellbeing, and progress into education, training, community activity, and employment. Alongside direct participant support, the project will engage local employers to strengthen understanding of the Armed Forces community and promote greater commitment through the Armed Forces Covenant. By improving career pathways, reducing isolation, and increasing employer engagement, the project will deliver lasting social and economic benefits for military partners and the wider community.
If you are interested in receiving support from this project, please complete our registration form, or if you’d like to find out more then contact us.
Funded with support from the Armed Forces Covenant Fund Trust’s Supporting Partners programme.
Military Roots
Cornwall Council Education Business Partnership and Active Plus CIC are working in partnership to deliver a new project across Cornwall named “Military Roots” which will be delivered as part of the Service Pupil Programme funded by Armed Forces Covenant Fund Trust.
The project is designed to improve confidence,connection, aspirations and self-belief in secondary school students in Cornwall who have a parent(s) currently serving in HM Armed Forces. The project will build knowledge, awareness and confidence for professionals who are supporting service pupils in their schools. Pupils and professionals will connect which will see a community of practice develop during the life of the project.
Working in collaboration, this project will be led by Cornwall Council Education Business Partnership and co-delivered with Active Plus CIC.
Professional Development: Equipping school staff with confidence and knowledge to support service pupils. Headstart Kernow training team will deliver, providing expertise on trauma-informed practice and mental health awareness, enhancing understanding of social, emotional, and mental health needs. These sessions will be informed by Active Plus and feature Veterans who will share their experiences. School staff will develop improved support, better needs identification and enhance understanding of Armed Forces families.
Active Plus Peer Connection and Resilience: Each six-session course aims to foster peer connections, build confidence, motivation, resilience, attainment, positive relationships, and peer-to-peer support. Active Plus (AP) uses skills of Military Veterans to inspire others.
Aspiration and Future Skills Workshops: Level 6 career advisors will conduct workshops tailored for Armed Forces youth, guiding them in understanding aspirations and navigating educational/training pathways. These sessions will take the form of an initial workshops to identify key interests, using local employers and training providers to engage young people. Each young person will then be offered a 1:1 careers session to understand their individual aspirations, goals and identify steps to achieve.
Community of Practice Development: Nine community and celebration events will establish a supportive network uniting professionals, families, and young people to share experiences and best practices.
For further information, contact Chris Kent:
Armed Forces Community Social Prescribing
Specialist service to help address a range of health needs and inequalities experienced by the Armed Forces Community
This project is designed to support people from the Armed Forces Community in Cornwall and Isles of Scilly. Bespoke, intervention will be provided via an experienced Armed Forces Community Social Prescribing Link Worker who can:
- Promote protective factors influencing health and wellbeing, including providing support to help overcome key risk factors influencing the health of veterans. These include measures to overcome problems with social isolation, adequate housing, employment and training opportunities, domestic abuse, mental health, early service leavers, sensory problems (e.g., hearing), smoking and alcohol misuse, access to healthcare and support in the criminal justice system.
- Focus on interventions to improve general health status among older adults and other vulnerable groups, such as those leaving the armed services early, and those with a physical and/or mental health condition.
- Promote awareness of Veteran Friendly Schemes and their adoption within primary care to become Veteran Friendly across the Peninsula, ensuring Veterans receive priority when their illness is attributable to their military service.
- Address physical and mental health, particularly for those at risk of self-harming and suicide. This could include greater access to the Veteran Reserves Mental Health Programme, Veterans Mental Health Transition Service, The Intervention and Liaison Service, NHS Veterans Mental Health Complex Treatment Service and Improving Access to Psychological Therapies.
If you are interested in receiving support from this project, please complete our referral form, or if you’d like to find out more then contact us.
This project is funded through the Cornwall Council and NHS Integrated Care Board.
Connecting Communities: Veterans Inspiring People
Linking up local people in Camborne, Pool & Redruth with community resources.
The Connecting Communities: Veterans Inspiring People project aligns with the overall Active Plus aims as it will ultimately improve community cohesion as it places veterans and the wider community at the heart of its delivery.
The project aims to engage with and improve the lives of people in the Cornish community who are inactive and therefore at higher risk of social isolation, ill-health and poor wellbeing.
Wounded, injured and sick military veterans will act as inspirational role models within the community as they build confidence, increase resilience and promote inclusion for all, therefore improving the lives of local people, as well as their own. The project will reduce isolation, increase overall health and wellbeing and will align the community with the community’s resources.
If you are interested in receiving support from this project, or you’d like to find out more then contact us.
This project is funded through the National Lottery Community Fund.
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