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Our Mission

The Sir Oswald Stoll Foundation provides high quality homes and support within a secure community to vulnerable and disabled Veterans, including those who have been homeless. We provide rehabilitative care, training and back-to-work initiatives for individuals to ensure that they are physically and mentally equipped for independent living.

When conceived by theatrical impresario Sir Oswald Stoll in 1916, the Foundation provided comfortable and inexpensive homes for those Servicemen injured in World War I and their families, offering welfare and clinical care in order that those damaged in their Country's service could live independently. Thankfully, the absence of major armed conflict since the end of World War II has meant that the number of ex-Service personnel suffering permanent disability has dwindled. But new challenges face us - Post Traumatic Stress Disorder and homelessness are now major problems facing those who have left the Forces, and research carried out in 2008 indicated there are now 1,100 homeless Veterans in London alone.

The Sir Oswald Stoll Foundation is working with its partners on the Ex-Service Action Group (ESAG) in the battle to reduce the number of homeless Veterans, by providing good quality housing within supportive communities together with comprehensive services that not only prevent a return to homelessness but move previously vulnerable Veterans out of a life of exclusion along the pathway to positive social interaction, employment and eventual full independence.

Once a tenant is granted a home with the Foundation, we provide that home for life for those who require this but assist others to rebuild their lives, get back to work and move on to fully independent living.

The Foundation has three main sites in London; all have established within them a strong sense of community, giving stability and a sense of belonging to previously socially excluded Veterans, thus enabling them to rebuild their lives through rehabilitation, training and back-to-work initiatives.