Businesses and charitable organisations who would like to demonstrate their support can also sign the Armed Forces Covenant to show you are actively supporting our Armed Forces community. This includes veterans, reserves, serving personnel and their families. Signing the Covenant is really straightforward and comes with a number of benefits to businesses and organisations. Pledges can be adapted depending on the size and nature of the organisation. For example you could adapt the covenant to:
- Promote the fact you are an Armed Forces-friendly organisation
- Support the employment of veterans and service leavers
- Offer flexibility in leave for service spouses and partner before, during and after deployment
- Support reservist employees, allowing leave for training and deployment
- Offer discount to members of the Armed Forces community
There is also an opportunity for businesses and charitable organisations to add their own commitments based on local circumstances.
Over 60 Herefordshire-based businesses and organisations have now signed the Covenant joining over 4,000 organisations who have signed nationally.