In May 2025, we once again invited members of the VC… community to nominate initiatives they thought would be worthy of a £10,000 Veterans Can… Enable grant. As previously mentioned, these projects had to be Veteran-led or focus on positivity for Veterans.
We received 21 submissions in all from VC… members running Ltd companies, CICs and charities, and our selection panel assessed all submissions against a set of criteria before we announced a short-list of 5, to be voted on by our members.
Kieron Honeyman from KH Plant Training submitted a strong proposal that would utilise the grant to fund a recruitment, selection, accredited training, and placement pathway for four Veterans in South Yorkshire. The KH Plant Training team would work with a number of organisations in the construction sector to ascertain the plant equipment these roles would require qualification on – and make that happen.
Before the vote, Veterans Can… were contacted by BBC1’s The One Show, who were interested in making a piece about the Veterans Can… grant process, featuring all five “finalists” – with those who received the most votes being announced, by JJ Chalmers, on the programme.
On the 23rd June, KH Plant Training were announced as a recipient of a £10,000 2025 Veterans Can… Enable grant.
Kieron Honeyman, Director of KH Plant Training
“The Veterans community is one of pride, Pride of not only our own service to our country but in the service of our fellow servicemen and women and those that went before us. But pride in what we as a community mean to each other and how in whatever walk of life we now find ourselves that we are all there for each other and willing to do good for each other. Grants such as these are the very embodiment of that pride being put into. In short Veterans Can.”
