About The ROSE Network
Career support, trusted connections, and opportunity for the Intelligence Corps family.
Career support, trusted connections, and opportunity for the Intelligence Corps family.
The ROSE Network is the professional network for the Intelligence Corps family: Regulars, Reserves, Veterans, and their immediate families.
It exists to help people leave service well, build stronger civilian careers, and create opportunities through trusted relationships. What makes it different is not simply exclusivity. It is that members share a professional background that creates faster trust, better conversations, and more useful introductions.
Structured mentoring, sector insight, and practical advice for those preparing to leave service.
A trusted peer network built around introductions, sector insight, and long-term career development.
Support for members building businesses, forming partnerships, and creating opportunities together.
The Intelligence Corps develops a particular kind of professional. Analytical. Discreet. Capable of operating in ambiguity. These qualities do not expire at the gate.
“The shared professional identity forged through Intelligence Corps service creates a foundation of trust that no open network can replicate. It is the reason this network exists, and the reason it works.”
Built through shared service and a common understanding of what it means to operate in sensitive environments. You know who you are dealing with.
A professional community where confidentiality is a reflex, not a policy. Conversations stay in the room.
Every member contributes. Every introduction is considered. The network compounds because the people in it take ownership of its value.
The ROSE Network is being rebuilt with purpose. Each phase builds on the last, moving from foundation to activation across all three pillars.
Establishing leadership, clarifying purpose, and restoring confidence in the network's role and direction.
Launching structured mentoring, hosting forums, building the professional network, and creating visible engagement across the community.
Growing regional presence through ROSE Buds, activating the Enterprise pillar in collaboration with British Veteran Owned, and embedding the network as an enduring, self-reinforcing resource.
The ROSE Network operates within the governance framework of the Intelligence Corps Association. It reports through established ICA structures to the Association's trustees and is subject to the same charitable obligations and standards of conduct.
The network is guided by operating principles of light-touch governance, volunteer-led delivery, trust-based relationships, and a commitment to avoid duplicating existing provision. Enterprise activity sits outside the charitable boundary. The network collaborates with British Veteran Owned, an independent organisation, to support veteran-led commercial enterprise.
The Intelligence Corps Association is a registered charity (No. 1175211) with the Charity Commission for England and Wales.
The network is chaired by Stephen James: Intelligence Corps veteran, entrepreneur, and Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. He is supported by the wider ICA team at Headquarters Intelligence Corps.