The Remembrance Day donation will fund emergency accommodation and essentials for veterans in crisis across Merseyside.
Westminster Security has donated £20,000 to The Block Armed Forces Foundation, a veteran-led charity in Kirkdale, Liverpool, that supports serving personnel, veterans and their families across the Liverpool City Region. The donation was announced on Remembrance Day.
The money will fund housing crisis management. That covers additional emergency accommodation, and essentials such as bedding, phone credit, food and transport, for veterans who reach the charity with nowhere to stay.
Westminster Security has supported The Block since the charity was founded in 2020. The donation continues that relationship.
John Moore, Managing Director of Westminster Security, said:
“Remembrance Day honours those who gave their lives. It should also make us think about those who came home with injuries, those we can see and those we cannot.”
“When I left the forces, I saw how little support there was in Merseyside for veterans who had fallen on hard times. This company is built on the skills and discipline of people who have served. Nobody who has served this country should be left without a roof over their head, with no support.”
“The Block is run by veterans who understand what the person in front of them is going through. They answer the phone when others have gone home, and they do it on very limited funding. We have supported them from the start, they are saving lives every day.”
Veteran Colin Eastaway, founded The Block in 2020. Having served in Iraq and Afghanistan. The name comes from the forces term for the accommodation block in a barracks, the building where personnel sleep and which also houses the unit’s office and administration.
Its services run from homelessness prevention, crisis support and emergency accommodation to advocacy, mental health and wellbeing support and help into employment, and it works closely with local authorities on the most vulnerable cases. Those include veterans with complex PTSD, chronic homelessness or addiction.
It runs a free drop-in centre in Kirkdale. A second centre opened recently on the Wirral, where the charity is now looking at local accommodation options for veterans who need somewhere to stay.
The Block supports an average of 420 veterans and service personnel each year, and around a quarter of them need crisis support and emergency accommodation. It is a referral partner for Op FORTITUDE, the national programme to end veteran homelessness.
Colin Eastaway, Founder and Chair of Trustees of The Block Armed Forces Foundation, said:
“Remembrance is one day in the year, but for the veterans we see the need is there every day. Every week people come through our door with nowhere to sleep that night, turned away by many big charities and organisations. We will always help, and demand for our help keeps growing.”
“£20,000 means we can do more and expand our reach. Westminster Security has backed us since we began in 2020. It matters to our veterans that this support comes from a company which employs so many people who have served. Without it, we could not continue.”
In England, 2,180 veteran households were homeless or at risk of homelessness in 2024-25, the latest year available, according to a Ministry of Defence written answer to Parliament in December 2025. In Scotland, 716 households assessed as homeless in 2025-26 included someone who had served in the armed forces. The Ministry of Defence has acknowledged that these figures do not capture every case.
There is no single figure for the UK. Op FORTITUDE has supported more than 1,000 veterans since 2023, and the government announced a further £12 million over three years for its Reducing Veteran Homelessness programme in November 2025.
Westminster Security signed the Armed Forces Covenant in 2015. Many of its operatives served in the British military before moving into close protection.
The firm received the Defence Employer Recognition Scheme Silver Award in 2024 and, in October 2026, the Gold Award, which is the highest level of the Ministry of Defence scheme for employers that support the Armed Forces community. The award is covered in Westminster Security Awarded Employer Recognition Scheme Gold. The Block’s work is described in full on the charity’s website.