Veterans Community Café

Veterans Community Café was set up to help veterans isolated due to mental health issues, to address loneliness through contact with other veterans.

Our Veterans Community Café seeks to serve and support veterans, former and retired members of the UK armed forces, police, fire services, merchant navy, or other emergency services and their families.

The café is held every Wednesday from 6pm to 9pm at Change Mental Health’s Stafford Centre in Edinburgh where veterans can benefit from peer support.

A free drop-in, it’s a welcoming space for veterans to chat to one another where their families are welcome to attend for hot drinks and food. There are also a range of guest speakers talking about different subjects of interest to veterans.

If you have any questions about the Veterans Community Café, please contact Joe Sangster (Veterans Café Coordinator at Change Mental Health). You can find out more about the support we deliver in Edinburgh through our team at Stafford Centre or call on 0131 557 8459.

Our National Advice and Support Service can help you and people you care for with mental health concerns and money worries.

We can link and signpost you to relevant local and national support, including our own Change Mental Health services, as well supporting with debt, grants and benefits.

The service is open Monday to Friday, 10am to 4pm (closed for lunch between 12.30pm to 1.30pm). Contact 0808 8010 515, email advice@changemh.org or fill in the form on the service webpage.

For full details about the service, visit the National Advice and Support Service webpage.