Positive Transition (+t)

Aim: We are looking to support our service personnel and their families navigate the complexities of leaving the military and finding civvy life.

When I left the Army in 1996, we set up a networking group to help veterans find employment. It didn’t take long to realise that the real challenge wasn’t about jobs, it was everything else.

The transition from service to civilian life isn’t just about finding a role, it’s about rebuilding a life.

In the Armed Forces, life is structured and it’s fully integrated:

• Accommodation is handled.
• Healthcare is embedded.
• Education, training, food, welfare, fitness - it’s all there.
• You live and work within one system, with one mission.

Then, one day, it ends. You and your family are expected to just "slot in" and navigate the civilian world as best you can.

While support exists from the government, NHS, charities, regimental associations, it’s scattered across websites, departments, regions and regulations. There’s no system. No cohesion. No shared sense of mission. 

Many aren’t aware of the support available to them and they struggle to know where to look.

The result is predictable, preventable breakdown!

There are 7 million people in the UK Armed Forces Community - serving personnel, families, veterans, reservists, cadets, and MoD civilians. 

That’s 1 in 10 people across the UK with a direct connection to military service. 

As one veteran put it:

 “Not everyone struggles with the transition, but everyone struggles with something.”

It could be: 

• Housing navigation
• Financial planning
• Children’s education
• Accessing healthcare
• Building a new community
• Re-establishing identity

Then there’s the hidden workforce we’re ignoring - Military spouses.

50% of serving personnel are married. Their spouses often give up careers, relocate regularly, and shoulder full family responsibility during deployment and moves. They manage logistics, school transitions, trauma, and loneliness and they do it without a job title or pension recognition.

They’re adaptable and highly skilled. 

Ignoring them isn’t just unjust. It’s inefficient.

So, what’s the cost of doing nothing?

• Wasted talent and taxpayer investment
• Veterans disengaged from community and employment
• Military spouses locked out of opportunity
• Children destabilised by fragmented services
• Charities duplicating effort
• Government spending more to achieve less

This isn’t a compassion gap, it’s a co-ordination failure. 

Fixing it could generate hundreds of millions of pounds in productivity and public value every year.

Enter +t: the platform for Positive Transition

We don’t offer more information. We turn scattered support into a cohesive, navigable system. We give people the map and guide them through the noise so they can make decisions and move forward with confidence. 

They know what support exists, what’s relevant to them, and how to access it - wherever they are, whatever their needs.

What does that look like in practice? 

• Personalised journeys based on service history, family status, and resettlement path.
• Mission dashboards with timelines, calendars, progress tracking and real-world support mapped in.
• Aggregated advice, training, and resources, drawn from the best-in-class providers - government, charity, NHS & private. 
• A single pane of glass for navigating transition, whether you’re a soldier, a spouse, a veteran, or a reservist.

+t doesn’t compete with existing services.  It’s the connective tissue that brings the system together. It turns fragmented support into coordinated outcomes, connects people to purpose, saves taxpayer money and unlocks workforce value.

The Armed Forces Community is one of the most skilled and 

under-utilised assets in British society today.

 By failing to coordinate support and enable smooth transitions from military to civilian life, we’re letting people down, holding them back and the UK economy is being held back with them.

+t is a vital and missing piece of national infrastructure. We need your help to bring it to life.

Funding method

Keep what you raise – this project will receive all pledges made by 1st August 2025 at 9:00am