Health & Wellbeing Housing & Homelessness 2024
Erskine Veterans Charity

Annual Review 2024

Erskine Veterans Charity provides specialist care, accommodation and community support to Scottish Veterans and their families. In 2024, the charity opened EVAC North in Forres (gaining 200+ members within two months), launched a Support at Home pilot serving 30 beneficiaries, and maintained sector-leading care home standards with a Very Good Care Inspectorate rating. Income was £27.4m and expenditure £28.5m for the year ending September 2024.

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📋About

Specialist nursing, dementia and end-of-life care homes; 44 family cottages and 5 assisted living apartments; 23 transitional supported apartments; ERMAC Veterans activity centre; EVAC North (Forres); Support at Home service; Scotland's Bravest Manufacturing Co. employment partnership

📊Key Metrics

220 care home rooms across two specialist nursing and dementia homes (Bishopton and Edinburgh) Key Metric 1
250 Veterans visit ERMAC activity centre monthly; EVAC North opened in Forres with 200+ members within two months Key Metric 2
54 Veterans from Transitional Supported Accommodation found long-term housing and employment since programme began Key Metric 3

✅Key Outcomes

  • Erskine Home Bishopton graded Very Good across all areas in Care Inspectorate snap inspection (December 2024)
  • 30 Veterans and spouses supported through new Support at Home pilot on the West Coast, enabling independent community living
  • 105,000 Veterans cared for since Erskine was founded in 1916, with 575 staff and over 250 volunteers

📍Geography

Scotland

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