In the UK, there are tens of thousands of former military personnel, who upon retirement from the armed forces have proceeded to contribute immensely to their country. The Veterans Awards looks to celebrate these true heroes from each home nation, whilst being a not for profit organisation that promotes the positives from our military community.

The Veterans Awards promote their stories and journeys through our social media sites and film their background stories for use with their media partners (including Pathfinder International magazine), social media sites and local news.

On August 19 2020 the Veterans Awards team held a socially distanced certificate and filming day for their English Veterans Awards and were very thankful for all of the people that made the journey to the Royal Regiment of Fusiliers Museum (Royal Warwickshire).

The Veterans Awards and Pathfinder Magazine would like to say a huge thanks to all the staff at the Museum, dignitaries, sponsors, volunteers and the amazing people that helped put all this together including ABF The Soldiers’ Charity West Midlands.

Rewarding British armed forces veterans, serving reservists and those companies that are doing great things to support us in England following social distancing guidelines at the same time was fantastic to see.

Thanks to below who came along to meet and support all the finalists who are doing great things from our Community, all our finalists appreciated your support and kind words!

• Colonel (Ret’d) RJ Carruthers, OBE, TD. Chair of the Royal Warwickshire Regimental Association. Chair Warwickshire ABF. Member West Mids RFCA
• Mr Timothy Cox. HM Lord Lieutenant for Warwickshire
• Councillor Terry Morris: Mayor of Warwick.
• Lt Col (Ret’d) John Rice. Chair of Trustees Royal Regiment of Fusiliers Museum Warwick
• Colonel (Ret’d) Richard L Mayberry QGM. Chief Executive, The West Midlands Reserve Forces and Cadets Association

The Museum itself tells the story of over 300 years of history of the County Regiment, from its raising in 1674 to the Fusiliers of today. A fantastic venue steeped with military history that was certainly a great location to film our finalist’s back stories for the main awards night.

The Awards evening is being held to reward our former serving military personnel in the areas of sport, fitness, business and the wider community, serving reservists and those companies that go above and beyond to recruit from our veteran community whom are based in England. Applications were received far and wide from across England.

The Main awards evening will see the shortlisted finalists attend a Black-Tie Dinner and awards ceremony that will be hosted by Radio X DJ Polly James and supported by the Corps of Drums of the Grenadier Guards.

Founder of the Veterans Awards Sean Molino BCA said “ The aim of our Veterans Awards is to inspire future service leavers that they can achieve great things when they do decide to leave the Armed Forces, it’s all about the positives that are happening within our veteran community. All our shortlisted finalists should be extremely proud of their achievements. We are here to spread the positive messages and journeys from within our veteran community, serving reservists and those companies that support us.”

Pathfinder International editor, Mal Robinson added, “It was great to see some many turn up for the filming day yesterday in Warwick, despite some lockdown restrictions still being in place. The stories and achievements of the finalists never fail to disappoint in terms of commitment and determination to succeed on behalf of the forces community. It is safe to say, the military family is in safe hands for years to come with the calibre of the peoples and companies involved in the English Veterans Awards alone.”

We look forward to welcoming you on the main Awards night October 7th to be held at the Village Hotel Solihull and thanks to the fantastic sponsors who have made this happen Hugh James, Vigilance, Mortgage Squared, Leavers to Leaders, Company X Consulting, Print Inc, Pathfinder International Magazine, Veteran Trees, Terrestres Servo Coronas and Ridgesteel Fabrications.

The Veterans Awards are proud to announce our shortlisted Finalists for this years English Veterans Awards, due to be held at the Village Hotel Solihull on the 7th October 2020. and in Support of The ABF The Soldiers’ Charity!

Well done to everyone who has been shortlisted as finalists. We had double the amount of  applications compared to last year and the shortlisting process was extremely difficult. We would also like to take this opportunity to thank everyone who put forward nominations.

We want to Inspire our future service leavers that great things can happen. Its you who will act as role models and in some cases mentors, remember Positivity breeds Positivity.

Our Finalists are :

Role Model of the Year- Sponsored by Print Inc 

Inspiration of the Year Award – Sponsored by Hugh James

The Community Awards – Sponsored by Mortgage Squared

Contribution to the English Fitness Industry and Society – Sponsored by The ABF The Soldiers’ Charity

Health & Well-being Award  – Sponsored by  Company X Consulting 

Leavers to Leaders Award  – Sponsored by Leavers to Leaders

Entrepreneur of the Year- Sponsored by Hugh James

Employer of the Year- Sponsored by Hugh James

Veteran Owned Business  of the Year- Sponsored by Vigilance

Volunteer of the Year –  Sponsored by Terrestres Servo Coronas

Lifetime Achievement – Sponsored by Vigilance

Reservist of the Year Award –  Sponsored by Mortgage Squared

The Winners will be chosen by our Independent Judging Panel. The Judging panels names and profiles will be released over the coming weeks.

Our Shortlisted  finalists will be filmed in the fantastic Location of  The Royal Regiment of Fusiliers Museum (Royal Warwickshire) on Wednesday 19th August. These videos will then be used on our extensive media campaign and will also be played on the evening itself, you will also receive your finalist certificate on this fantastic morning.

All our Shortlisted Finalists will have the opportunity to purchase tickets between 10th  August and 7th September. If we do have to move the main awards evening because of the current Covid 19 Situation all tickets will be moved and secured for the new date accordingly.

For more details please get in touch.

CXC are passionate about supporting our military community and those looking to transition into civilian life. We as a company of primarily ex-serving military staff understand the challenges and concerns our colleagues face as they look to make the decision to leave the armed forces. We believe it is important for businesses who provide similar transitional support to be recognised and encouraged to continue to provide this essential support to our serving colleagues.

The veteran’s awards provide recognition for existing businesses who look to support our military colleagues, both serving and looking to transition into civilian life. They also provide encouragement for other business considering supporting our military community by showing the value of providing such support. Businesses looking to support the awards benefit from a significant amount of publicity from the event, as well as attracting high calibre ex-military professionals, and business opportunities in support of defence requirements.

Company X Consulting are a consultancy SME company, with a family feel. We employ high calibre individuals who provide essential marketable skills in support of client requirements (including, but not limited to; Project Managers, Programme Managers, Cyber, Information Assurance, Business Change Managers, Business Analysts, Service Management, Service Design, Construction, Leadership, Training etc). The CXC family are primarily made up of ex-military, where CXC provide full transitional support for those looking to leave the armed forces and consider a career in consultancy. We (CXC) work with those individuals to guide them through their journey leaving the military, providing guidance on CV writing, how to find contracting roles, support traversing the complex matrix of recruiters, frameworks, and contracts, training, marketing, assistance in transferring military terminology into civilian and industry recognised formats, and full support during their time working with CXC. We focus on each member of the CXC family as an individual.

For more information on CXC ltd visit – https://cxc-ltd.com/#about

We are extremely happy to announce that Team Vigilance are sponsors at next year’s English Veterans Awards!

“Our military heritage and ethical approach are bringing a fresh perspective to the security industry.

Our military heritage is at the heart of everything we do, proven by our discipline, integrity and commitment to excellence. As an ethical business, we take our Corporate Social Responsibility seriously – we’re driven by the need to create positive change in the world.

We proudly employ ex-Armed Forces personnel, and look after them well. Their valuable skills and experience are a major asset to our business and our clients; they have a professionalism that is unmatched in the industry.

Vigilance is proud to employ military veterans, and has close ties to the Gurkha community. They have a strong sense of corporate responsibility, and support charities including Gurhka Welfare Trust, the Royal British Legion Poppy Appeal, Remembered There But Not There & the ABF The Soldiers’ Charity”

For more info on Vigilance please check out – http://vigilanceprotects.com/

All The Veterans Awards team appreciate your support and please keep up the amazing work you are doing!

Thank you to Angela Windsor MD of Print Inc sponsor at this year’s Welsh Veterans Awards

Print Inc. specialises in bespoke business to business embroidery, print, and merchandise supplies. Make the switch to Print Inc for hassle free uniform and work wear for your company.

Print Inc have recently completed an order for the 1st Battalion Welsh Guards Boxing team polo’s, their Operation TORAL (Afghanistan) and Belize tour t shirts  and they also print the water bottles for the Battalion.

They started off undertaking work for the Welsh Guards Boxing Team and then after they saw the quality of the items they wanted to work with us on other projects.

“We pride ourselves on quality embroidery and delivering excellence with each order and cant wait to hear the positive stories from our Military Veteran Community at the upcoming Awards”

For more info on print Inc please check out –

Print Inc Embroidery & Print – https://printincclothing.co.uk/

Mortgage Squared isn’t your average mortgage broker. We are veteran owned and family run; we pride ourselves on our award winning and friendly five-star customer service and we believe that our unique business ethos and values will make an impact while helping our valued military and veteran clients.

A mortgage is one of the biggest investments of your life and we want it to be a journey that you can feel relaxed and excited about, been able to talk frankly to one of your own and someone with a deep understanding of military and veteran life. We want to be your Mortgage Broker for life, standing with you every step of the way and guiding you from your first home to your dream home and beyond.

Although Mortgage Squared can help anyone the company was established to help armed forces personnel and veterans with tailored expert mortgage and protection advice. We have developed to specialise in assisting professionally qualified officers and veteran business owners.

Often members of the armed forces and veterans can be penalised when it comes to borrowing, through no fault of their own, because they may move regularly or be stationed abroad for periods of time, which may then affect their credit rating. Mortgage lenders may therefore be less likely to accept an application when compared to other mainstream occupations. Luckily, there are lenders out there who understand, and adopt a more common-sense approach, allowing for more flexible and unique underwriting criteria.

Director and founder Simon Rowe is an army veteran and still serves in the army reserve as a SNCO in the rifles. Mortgage Squared has been through its own journey of setting up as a veteran owned business and has been fortunate to have received lots of support from the veteran community. There is an absolute abundance of talent leaving the armed forces and joining the veteran community and we are passionate about following and supporting success wherever possible.”

The Veteran community is a family as we were while serving. There are individuals and business out there doing fantastic things after transitioning to civilian life and it is important that they are recognised and awarded for their hard work and achievements. The UK is slowly closing the gap between ourselves and the USA in how we recognise, support and develop our veterans in business.

Massive thank you Mortgage Squared

To find out more about Mortgage Squared visit – https://www.mortgagesquared.co.uk/

We are so pleased to have the fantastic team at Hugh James as sponsors at this years Scottish, English and Welsh Awards!

Here’s a little info on Hugh James –

We are a full service, top 100 UK law firm offering specialist legal and financial advice. With over 50 years’ experience, and 700 staff members, we have the expertise to deliver a service you can trust.

Although our workforce has grown to more than 700, we have retained and nurtured a unique culture which is based on hard work, exceptional talent, ambition, empathy, innovation and good humour. It is those qualities that have helped us grow the business to where we stand today. We have ambitious plans to become a top 50 UK firm by 2021 and our culture will be key to this.

Simon Ellis – ” We are really pleased to be involved with such an inspiring night and we are so glad to support our Military Veterans on National level”

https://www.hughjames.com.

We are so pleased to welcome Pathfinder International Magazine as our Official media Partner for the 2020 Veterans Awards.

We are really looking forward to working with Malcolm Robinson and his team to promote the Positives that are coming from within our Veteran Community and those companies that go above and beyond to support and recruit from us!

Please read the blog here for more information- http://pathfinderinternational.co.uk/pathfinder-magazine-b…/

Pathfinder International Magazine

Welcome to our  Leavers to Leaders Award – Sponsored by Leavers to Leaders!

This award is for service Leavers who have successfully transitioned from the military to become leaders in any civilian role across governments, business and the 3rd sector. Selected winners will also be invited to represent their organisations at the Leavers To Leaders global conference to inspire others. Have you become a leader in your chosen field? Do you positively impact your civilian peers? How do you stand out in your organisations? Have you got any testimonials?

As the winner of the English veteran role model of the year and runner up of business leader of the year, Samuel T. Reddy aim is to empower other service Leavers to become leaders in their chosen field. In a digital world driven by Ai & technology leaders have to constantly reinvent themselves to stay relevant and this is where service Leavers can excel by applying themselves and also make meaning impact to organisations. Samuel is the founder of TriExForces, a selected team of ex military personnel who are deployed globally to empower teams and impact organisations. He is also the author of the bestselling book Leavers to Leaders, for anyone who is ready to become a leader in their field. He believes environment dictates performance, and you gain more experience by exposing yourself to new environments.

Leavers To Leaders – TriExForces – Veteran Owned UK

We are extremely proud to announce that The Social Butterfly Marketing LTD will be looking after all our social media marketing on twitter during our Welsh Veterans Awards and English Veterans Awards during 2020!

The Social butterfly is an ecosystem of Marketing and Design experts who work with private and public sectors. We motivate local businesses to refocus their attention back on marketing by providing unbiased effective consultancy and management in Wales.

Amy Price (Director) Said:

“We are very excited and proud to be involved with The Welsh Veterans awards and have strong personal links to those who have served in the military. Celebrating successes of our former military personnel who give so much to our country is something we feel very passionate about. Here’s to some great evenings.”

We are extremely happy to have Amy and her team cover our fantastic awards evening on twitter and if your attending and want a shout out please look out for them, they are amazing at what they do!

The Social Butterfly Marketing LTD

All our Awards team would like to welcome RV1 Group as Category sponsors at this years Welsh Veterans Awards. We caught up with Penny Read Director of Operations  from RV1  Group to find out a little more about the services they offer and why they wanted to support the Veterans Awards!

Robert Wilson was third generation into the Household Division who created RV1 Group from a struggle found in transitioning from the Service and the lack of real time tools available within mainstream resettlement.

We work exclusively with those leaving the Armed Forces and try our very best to map employment prospects within corporate business. Across a number of levels, from Ex Military Internship programmes to live recruitment/talent needs, we can work with your organisation to inject impressive Ex Military talent into your workforce.

There is a huge wealth of people leaving the Armed Forces (over 17,000 each year) and many struggle with the end of Service transition into a new and sometimes daunting civilian chapter. The benefits of such a presence within your business can be hugely positive with core values of integrity, selfless commitment and loyalty at the very forefront of the Ex-Military mind-set.

Our primary focus is working with Service leavers within their final 3/4 months with an aim to utilise resettlement ‘downtime’ by placing them into customised Ex Military Internship programmes or work placements. This on average is 4 weeks offering a very generalist white-collar insight into a business. In our view, there is no substitute for ‘real time’ experience that will hands down beat the usual ‘tick-box resettlement favourites such as ‘CV clinics’ or ‘Careers workshops’, etc. Such an opportunity can trigger all kinds of prospects and can offer a solid talent/recruitment pool for any organisation. Furthermore, it offers an invaluable transitional experience for the Service leaver, a taste of real business in an unfamiliar world. This ‘skill bridge’ method is incredibly effective in the USA and we are the only agency in the UK hitting this kind of angle. Most of our Internships are unpaid as the Service leaver is still within the HM Forces payroll until their exit date. We work with a number of businesses who generally work from quarterly intakes of approx. 20 Service leavers on an Intern programme (most provide lunch and travel

Outside of the work placement or Internship world, we can work on live recruitment requirements and also have a platform (Ex Direct) whereby an organisation can capture Ex Military direct self-managing their own vacancies.

We look forward to attending the Awards in Cardiff and are delighted to be supporting and involved In helping to promote veterans across the UK!

Find out more about RV1 Group Here – http://www.rv1group.com/

Our Welsh Veterans Awards team are extremely pleased to welcome Bridgend Audi as this years main sponsors of the Welsh Veterans Awards.

The Veterans Awards is a fully not for profit organisation that promotes the positives from our military veteran community. Its been put together by Veterans for Veterans and those companies that support us with all money raised above costs going back into supporting our Veteran Community. We reward veterans in the areas of Sport, Fitness, Business, Health and Well-being and the wider community! This years Awards will be  opened by Brigadier Jock Frasier Royal Marines and Supported by the Corps of Drums of the Royal Welsh, Shenkin the Goat along with the legendary Goat Major sponsored by Audi Sinclair Bridgend and in Support of the ABF The Soldiers Charity!

We caught up with Chris Jenkins (Head of Business) from Bridgend Audi and asked him a few questions:

Why  did Audi Sinclair want to get involved with the awards?

“Bridgend Audi wanted to get more involved with the veterans within the local community, the Bridgend area is steeped in history and links to all the armed forces and this was an amazing opportunity to do so. Bridgend Audi has many loyal customers who have served in all of the armed forces and this is an opportunity to give a little back.”

Why you think the Awards will benefit the Veterans Community and those companies that support us?

“The Awards really drive a robust bridge between veterans leaving their duties and moving back into the commercial world. Not only does it recognise their efforts, it also offers them a vehicle to recognise the true value of the skills and characteristics they have gained during their service.”

What Audi Sinclair do and offer?

“Bridgend Audi sells and services beautifully engineered cars in a welcoming dealership, that in a modern age still really drives the family values of the Sinclair Group.”

We would like to thank all the team at Audi Bridgend for their support for our Veteran Community  and look forward to celebrating the success on the evening itself!

Dates for your Diaries: 

Our Awards are now open for applications and nominations, if you know a Military Veteran or  a company/ organisation that’s goes above and beyond to support us and they are based or operate in Wales then apply or nominate on the below link – https://veteransawards.co.uk/welsh-veterans-awards/