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Participation in sports recovery via the Invictus Games has been shown to have a significant short- and long-term positive impact on the recovery journey of international wounded, injured and sick Service personnel and veterans.

FiMT has awarded £45,000 to King’s College London to continue its sponsorship of the King’s Centre for Military Health Research Veterans’ Mental Health Conference (VMHC) for three years from 2021 to 2023.

FiMT has awarded £270,830 to the King’s Centre for Military Health Research (KCMHR) at King’s College London, in partnership with veterans’ mental health charity Combat Stress, to design and conduct a feasibility study of a psychological treatment for morally injured UK veterans.

FiMT has awarded a grant to Blesma, The Limbless Veterans, to conduct a two-year study on veterans with loss of functionality of limbs and their families’ everyday living experience.

The Government has released a new report, Living in our Shoes, which reviews the needs of UK Armed Forces families.

A new grant has been made available to the Invictus Games Foundation to continue research into the impact of participation in sport for recovery.

Results of a study into the effectiveness of a new treatment for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) show that it can be effective for ex-Service personnel with treatment-resistant PTSD.

Following a study on CPTSD which found that CPTSD is a more prevalent condition within help-seeking ex-Service personnel than PTSD, FiMT has awarded a new grant to conduct a pilot study of a new treatment especially developed for CPTSD in ex-Service personnel.

Forces in Mind Trust (FiMT) has awarded £306,956 to Queen’s University Belfast (QUB) to conduct a study examining the psychosocial determinants of psychological health and wellbeing for ex-Service families.

Forces in Mind Trust has responded to the call for evidence from the Health and Social Care Committee on Delivering Core NHS and Care Services during the Pandemic and Beyond.