Armed Forces Community

Supporting the Armed Forces Covenant

We are proud signatories of the Armed Forces Covenant. This means we have made a number of commitments to support those from the Armed Forces community.

These are:

No member of the Armed Forces Community should face disadvantage in the provision of public and commercial services compared to any other citizen.
In some circumstances special treatment may be appropriate for the injured or bereaved.
Promoting the Armed Forces: promoting the fact that we are an armed forces-friendly organisation through our communications channels, and whilst recruiting employees.
Veterans: proactively encourage the employment of veterans, recognising military skills and qualifications in our recruitment and selection process; working with the Career Transition Partnership (CTP) and other agencies to support the employment of Service leavers; run a work placement programme for service leavers.
Service spouses, partners and families: supporting the employment of Service spouses and partners by partnering with the Forces Families Jobs Forum; support and engage with Service spouses, partners and their wider families by offering flexible employment and career opportunities; provide Service spouses with an additional day's holiday when their spouse is deployed on operations for 3 months or longer in line with Spouses policy.
Reserves: actively support our employees who are members of the Reserve Forces; granting additional 10 days paid leave for annual Reserve Forces training; supporting their training and during their activation and deployment; actively promoting the benefits of employing Reservists.
Cadet Organisations: supporting our employees who are volunteer leaders in military cadet organisations, granting additional leave to attend annual training camps and courses; actively encouraging members of staff to become volunteer leaders in cadet organisations; supporting local military cadet units; recognising the benefits of employing cadets/ex-cadets within the workforce.
Military Dependants: support our Compass Group military families through our Dependant Days bringing all of our dependants together for quarterly events.
Reserves and Military engagement: continue to support and work closely with the Regular (Core Catering Manpower) and Reserve Forces (167 Catering Support Regiment).
National Events: supporting Armed Forces Day, Reserves Day, the Poppy Appeal Day and Remembrance activities, and other local events.
Charity relationships: maintain our working relationships and fundraising initiatives with major forces charities and supporting employees who volunteer. The Soldier's ABF charity, RNRMC, RAF BF, SSAFA.