Armed Forces Day will be on Saturday, 28 June 2014. Armed Forces Day is an opportunity to do two things. Firstly, to raise public awareness of the contribution made to our country by those who serve and have served in Her Majesty’s Armed Forces, Secondly, it gives the nation an opportunity to show your support for the men and women who make up the Armed Forces community: from currently serving troops to Service families and from veterans to cadets.

Since 2009, Armed Forces Day has been marked annually with events large and small throughout the UK, and this year the celebrations will fall on Saturday 28 June, when a major national event will be held in the City of Stirling, Scotland.

Local Armed Forces Day events include:

• Chatham Armed Forces Day Event
• Folkestone Armed Forces Day Event
• Deal Armed Forces Day Event

To find out more about Armed Forces day go to their website here: http://www.armedforcesday.org.uk/

To look for more events go to the Armed Forces Events Search by following the link.

If you are service or ex service personnel or their family or friends and are concerned about mental wellbeing there are specific organisations operating in Kent and Medway that can help you. Some of these we have listed below.

• Armed Forces Network
• The Big White Wall
• Combat Stress
• Royal British Legion
• The Ripple Pond - support for families and carers of service and ex service personnel

If you need to speak to someone for free using NHS funded therapy go to our information and refer yourself into speak to someone local to you.