TAUNTON School students have pledged to use a bit of elbow grease to get a hostel ready for armed forces veterans.
The school, which has donated £250 to the Taunton Association for the Homeless project to convert a former pub, The Victoria Arms, has also agreed its students can help decorate the building in East Reach, Taunton.
Taunton Association for the Homeless decided on the facility after figures showed one in ten homeless people are former services personnel.
Stephen Pugh, who recently retired as Taunton School’s Combined Cadet Force contingent commander, said: "It is tragic that some former service personnel do not get the care they truly deserve after leaving the military.
"This project will see specialist accommodation for those veterans who really need a safe place to live and Taunton School is proud to support such a project.”
TAH chief executive Justin Roxburgh said the scheme will create eight bedrooms, four with wet rooms, and facilities for wheelchair users.
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