Tag: Combat Stress

Combat Stress Launch Their Bring Them Home Campaign

Stuart Mitchell

Combat Stress have launched their new campaign to reveal the devastating isolation experienced by veterans with military-related trauma. The charity collaborated with Channel 4’s in-house creative agency 4creative to create the film Bring Them Home, which shows how mental health problems such as post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) can leave former servicemen and women withdrawn and isolated from family, friends and their community. The film features a group of real-life veterans who have served in conflicts including Northern Ireland, Gulf War, Bosnia, Iraq and Afghanistan. After leaving the Armed Forces, veterans…

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WW1 ‘Tommies’ Mark Start Of Nationwide Centenary Campaign

Stuart Mitchell

Ghostly figures of First World War soldiers or ‘Tommies’, have sprung up all over the UK today, as part of a new fundraising campaign led by former Chief of the General Staff, General The Lord Dannatt and supported by Birdsong novelist, Sebastian Faulks. Hoping to raise in excess of £15 million for armed forces and mental health charities, the six foot high Tommies are part of a nationwide art installation called ‘There But Not There’. The Tommies appear as 2018 marks 100 years since the end of the First World…

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Combat Stress and the Ministry of Defence announce new partnership

Stuart Mitchell

Combat Stress and the Ministry of Defence (MOD) have announced a new partnership to provide an out of hours mental health helpline to serving personnel. From midday on Sunday 25 February servicemen and women will have a new number to use when calling the Combat Stress helpline. The MOD will support the new number with the biggest internal marketing campaign on mental health they’ve ever run. The MOD has committed to giving Combat Stress £50,000 in the next financial year to cover the cost of the helpline team taking calls…

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