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Sponsor A Veteran - why heroes like Dave urgently need your help

Thousands of veterans across Britain are fighting a daily battle with combat trauma and are in urgent need of help.

Many more veterans, damaged by what they lived through during service, are struggling in silence.

When you Sponsor A Veteran through Operation Lifeline you change a world. You could save a world. Your support provides:

• The very best one-to-one professional counselling and hope that the invisible scars of service can be healed – it is the start of a journey of recovery.
• Vital 24/7 telephone helplines for our armed forces and veterans at the lowest of moments.
• Support dogs as well as access to wellbeing activities where veterans heal together - group therapy can be crucial to recovery.
• Research into PTSD to find better treatments and help for our armed forces and veterans.
• New hope for our heroes in need and a reduction in suicide rates in the armed forces and veterans community.

Operation Lifeline: A mission to change and save lives.

More than half of our British armed forces heroes struggle with mental and physical health issues when they leave the service.

Some are so traumatised that they go on to take their own lives.

The number of veterans coming forward for help is surging, but so many more are still hiding in the shadows.

We need to find them and support them into recovery. The clock is ticking and every second counts.

Operation Lifeline is a mission to end mental health suffering and reduce suicide.

This is our biggest ever campaign, with an aim to raise £6 million per year - Operation Lifeline will fund life-changing and life-saving therapy, counselling and support all over the UK.

Together we are changing lives, and saving lives, of those who have served. Thank you for your support.