Wiltshire charity asks us to give veterans hope this Christmas
Help for Heroes wants supporters to leave messages on their website
Approximately 83,000 veterans will spend Christmas lonely and isolated, according to a YouGov survey.
Wiltshire based charity, Help for Heroes, are asking us to offer our support to veterans across the country with their Christmas appeal.
One the charity's website, we can leave a message of hope and support for veterans.
"Thousands of veterans, and their families, will read those and remember that their service mattered," Mark Elliott from Help for Heroes told us.
The charity, which has its HQ in Swindon, launched the campaign with a video, which shows a Guardsman being left on it's own, before being put onto a Christmas tree.
Mark says Christmas can be lonely, particularly for veterans.
"Everybody's coming together and through circumstance, no fault of their own, (veterans) may not have family and they may be alone."
Mark added that the feeling of isolation is compounded as Christmas follows the remembrance period in early November.
"(They feel) they haven't got a great deal left.
"They don't have family, and of course they've left their regiments cause or service, which for many years was their family."
Language barrier
Mark explained that Veterans can be held back through their forms of communication.
He told Greatest Hits Radio that ex-military personnel speak 'veteran'.
"It's like the civilian world listening to Cantonese, they won't understand it," Mark said, adding: "Veterans don't really understand civilian language.
"They were taken out and put in a completely unique environment and they learned that language."
He says the charity are working in community's, speaking veteran, to help them feel safe.
Mark says the most important thing civilians can do when reaching out to veterans is to be authentic.
"Don't be something you're not, don't try and be in their environment.
"Simply be kind, be nice, and say thank you."
We can leave a message to veterans through the Help for Heroes website.