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Our Mission

The Sir Oswald Stoll Foundation provides homes and support to vulnerable ex-Servicemen and women, including those who have been homeless. We offer care, rehabilitation and training 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 - homelessness is now a major problem facing those who have left the Forces, and there are now 1,100 homeless Veterans in London alone.

The Sir Oswald Stoll Foundation is therefore working with its partners on the Ex-Service Action Group (ESAG) to 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.