Glasgow’s Helping Heroes becomes SSAFA Connect

28 October 2026

From October 2026 SSAFA’s award-winning specialist welfare service, Glasgow's Helping Heroes (GHH), will become SSAFA Connect. 

The Govan-based support service - a partnership between SSAFA, the Armed Forces charity and Glasgow City Council - has delivered practical housing, health, and employability support to serving personnel, veterans, and their families in the Glasgow area for the past 16 years, helping 592 people in 2025 alone. 

The service’s new name - informed by the needs and lived experiences of beneficiaries - is a nod to GHH's established partnership network and reflects the service's holistic, inclusive support for the whole Armed Forces family. 

Sy Harty, Service Manager at SSAFA Connect, said: “We’re excited to evolve our established service with a fresh identity that more explicitly connects us to the SSAFA family and reflects our forward-looking, person-centred approach. 

“We look forward to continuing to work closely with SSAFA colleagues and our local partners as SSAFA Connect, helping people who have served restore stability to their lives in their time of need.”