We have a wide range of support services

Can the Legion help you?

Want to get away from it all?

Alderson House Poppy Party

The Legion offers much-needed breaks to ex-Service and serving personnel and their families.

If you or a member of your family is recovering from an illness, bereavement or other life affecting event, the Legion can provide a comfortable and enjoyable break.

We have four Break Centres located in prime locations around the country, and for our family breaks, we also have close ties with Parkdean and Haven Holiday Parks.

The Legion also provides Adventure Breaks, where young people of Service families can have a fun and activity-packed week.   

If it wasn't for the Legion we wouldn't have had a family holiday, it was lovely just to get away.

Introductory video

Find out more about Break Centres from our video below.

How to apply

Our Break services are available to serving or ex-Service men or women and/or their dependants who are in genuine need of a break. (Please note that all applications are assessed on the basis of need and means.)

Contact your local Legion office to apply or call 08457 725 725 for more information.

Catchment details for each centre are:

Alderson House
North East & Midlands, Leicestershire, Northamptonshire, Lincolnshire, Norfolk, Northumberland, Cambridgeshire, Nottinghamshire, Derbyshire, Yorkshire, Durham, Scotland*

Bennet House
Northern Ireland, Irish Republic & Scotland

Byng House
North West, West Midlands, North Wales, Cumbria, Cheshire, North Staffordshire, North Shropshire, Lancashire, Merseyside, Greater Manchester, Isle of Man, Ceredigion, Flintshire, Denbighshire, Anglesey, Montgomeryshire, Meirionnydd, Scotland

Somerset Legion House
South Western, South Eastern, Metropolitan, West Midlands, South Wales, Bedfordshire, Birmingham, Buckinghamshire, Essex, Gloucestershire, Hereford, Worcester, Hertfordshire, Oxfordshire, Suffolk, Warwickshire, South Staffordshire, Brecon & Radnor, Carmarthen, Pembroke, Rhondda & Pontypridd, Vale of Glamorgan, West Glamorgan, Gwent