RMA – The Royal Marines Charity’s Director of Health and Wellbeing, Danny Egan, was today (Wednesday 22nd March 2023) presented with a £4,370.59 cheque at 45 Commando Marines Memorial Gardens by Ian Clark, Managing Director of Arbroath-based IED Training Solutions.
The Charity, which offers lifelong support to the Royal Marines’ family, has established a solid working relationship over the past two years with award-winning IED Solutions whose MD is a former Royal Marine with 22 years’ service.
This donation represented IED’s pledge to return to the Charity 50% of all net profits from the income generated through delivering mental health first aid training courses. The collaborative training initiative saw a total of 118 of the Charity’s beneficiaries attend the training to May 2022. Learners were taught how to provide advice and practical support to an individual(s) presenting with a mental health condition.
IED’s primary focus is working with companies to develop and enhance their health and wellbeing, safety, mental health and trauma management strategies. Through its relationship with RMA – The Royal Marines Charity, it is delivering nationally accredited and regulated training courses to serving personnel, service leavers, the Veteran community and RMA corporate sponsors.
The accredited qualifications gained through IED greatly helps the Charity assist those Royal Marines who have lost their own careers through medical discharge with their transition from service into civilian life; and also helps it support vulnerable veterans with complex needs back into employment and independence. The company also offers complementary training courses to RMA employees and welfare volunteers.
Courses include those around health and safety, mental health and wellbeing first aid training, and IOSH-approved TRiM (Trauma Risk Management).
“The opportunity to work with RMA – The Royal Marines Charity gives us a real sense of excitement and pride. The Royal Marines are truly special and those of us that have or have had the privilege to serve in the Corps are especially aware of the impact which that service has had on their lives.
IED Training Solutions MD, Ian Clark
The ethos of IED – inspiring, educating and developing – is the bedrock on which the company is built, and it is an approach which complements our genuine wish to make a difference. Seeing the improvement in the Charity’s beneficiaries after being armed with the qualifications they gain through IED brings us all tremendous satisfaction.”
Danny Egan, RMA – The Royal Marines Charity Director of Health & Wellbeing, added: “We greatly value the partnership we have developed with IED Training Solutions. The company’s gesture to share a percentage of its profits is most generous and provides a really welcome boost to the funds we have available to ensure our continued support to the Royal Marines family. We are delighted, too, to be able to support and promote a business run by one of our own and which provides such first-class products.”
Both RMA and IED Training Solutions have been awarded the Employer Recognition Scheme Gold Award from the Ministry of Defence for their exemplary commitment to the Armed Forces community.