Overcoming social isolation, homelessness and improving mental health and wellbeing in the Veteran community.
Healthier Heroes CIC provides support to ex-service personnel, their families and carers who are struggling with an array of complex requirements and support, as well as members of the NHS and other blue light services. The support offered to our service users includes housing, education, employment, tackling isolation and health and wellbeing. Partnering with statutory and other third sector organisations we ensure our service users receive the support they need using a collaboration approach. From consultation through to delivery our service users drive us. We pride ourselves on co-designing all our delivery programmes in joint consultation with our beneficiaries.
We are very proud and very excited to be able to provide our services to support the wider armed forces community and blue light services across the North west & North east .
We have been set up and supported by people with lived experience of complex needs (including homelessness, mental health issues and substance misuse), so that clients have a space in which they will feel understood.
We are running a programme called UNITE INSPIRE BELIEVE which aims to tackle the complex needs of those in need. We opened Bancroft house in Burnley in December 2020, and in November 2025 we opened 2 new housing projects one in St Helens and one in Redcar and Cleveland (NE) as we are now able to support the armed forces community across the north of England.
All our Housing projects will provide:
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beds in Bancroft house in the NW
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beds in our move on properties NW
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new accommodation rooms (Morgan house- NE) Taking referrals for this project now
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Beds in St Helens NW
Interventions are based on six core key themes:
Physical health and wellbeing – fitness, nutrition, and outdoor activity
Emotional Health (feeling) – stress and anger management and bereavement support
Personal Growth (being) – peer mentoring, education, training, and employment
Mental Health (thinking) – counselling, risk management and mental health advocacy
Social Health (relating) – social inclusion activity, social events and team building days
Welfare – housing, welfare and benefits, offending, financial and legal support, and adult social care
Community Hubs
We have two community hubs across Lancashire: one in Preston on Market Street and another in Morecambe in the West End on Alexander Road.
These hubs are designed to offer a safe space for Veterans and their families to access our services within a community setting. We provide a wide range of support, including housing, education, welfare benefits, employment, and training, as well as additional assistance for Veterans and their families in many other areas.
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