Celebrating Community, Compassion, and Commitment: The 2025 Soldiering On Awards Community Impact Winners

This year, the 15th annual Soldiering On Awards shone a spotlight on Scotty’s Little Soldiers and RBLI (now RBVE), two extraordinary organisations who were both recognised with the prestigious Community Impact Award. Sponsored by BAE Systems, this award shines a light on organisations who demonstrate an unwavering dedication to supporting our Armed Forces community.

This year, both charities exemplify the Community Impact Award’s purpose and create real commitment to transforming lives.

Scotty’s Little Soldiers: Strength Through Family, Hope Through Support

Scotty’s Little Soldiers was founded to support children who have lost a parent while serving in the Armed Forces, but its reach goes far beyond, offering community, reassurance, and a sense of belonging to young people whose lives have been turned upside down. With this award, their tireless work has been celebrated on a national stage.

Their programmes, whether providing peer support groups, fun events, educational opportunities or simply a chance for military children to be children again, remind us that loss should never be suffered in silence, and that compassion can heal in ways words alone sometimes cannot. In giving hope and solidarity to Armed Forces children and young people, Scotty’s Little Soldiers shows that love and community can be a lifeline.

RBLI: A Legacy of Support, A Future of Inclusion

RBLI’s many years of service to veterans, their families, and the broader Armed Forces community stand as a testament to the power of commitment and care. Through housing, rehabilitation, social support, and community building, RBLI helps ensure that those who served, and their loved ones, have somewhere to turn.

By awarding RBLI their ‘Oscar’, the Soldiering On Awards recognise not only past achievements but the ongoing mission: to build inclusive, supportive environments where dignity, purpose, and companionship remain a reality for veterans and their families long after their service ends.

A Shared Victory for Community and Connection

That Scotty’s Little Soldiers and RBLI share the 2025 Community Impact Award reflects the breadth and diversity of support provided across the military community: from children growing up without a parent, to veterans readjusting to civilian life, and families navigating the challenges that follow service.

On a night marked by humility, respect, and national gratitude, hosted at London’s Park Plaza Westminster Bridge Hotel and attended by veterans, serving personnel, families, supporters and partners, the recognition of these charities feels more than deserved. These organisations remind us all that service does not end when duty does, and that the strength of the Armed Forces community lies as much in shared solidarity, compassion, and kindness, as it does in courage and sacrifice.

Because of their work, children facing loss know they’re not alone; veterans and their families know there is support, purpose and a place to belong. Their impact echoes beyond assistance, it builds community.

A Hope for the Future

Let this award be more than a well-deserved honour: let it be a call to action. May we continue to rally behind charities like Scotty’s Little Soldiers and RBLI, backing them with time, attention, donations, volunteering, whatever each of us can give.

In honouring them, the 2025 Soldiering On Awards celebrate not just what has been done, but what must still be done: building a society where no veteran, no military child, no Armed Forces family, is ever left to struggle alone.

Here’s to community. To compassion. To commitment. To two organisations who deserve every bit of recognition and much, much more.