Individual events in date order
February 28, 2025
North Wiltshire & Gloucestershire: What's on in March
Individual events in date order
The Families Continuous Attitude Survey 2025 is open!
Take part in this year’s tri-Service Families Continuous Attitude Survey (FamCAS) and help Defence to understand your experiences and thoughts across a broad range of areas. Your feedback will help Defence to make changes and develop policies to better meet your needs.
The survey invites a random sample of civil partners and spouses of regular serving personnel to take part. To see if you’ve been invited to complete the survey, and to access the survey, please check the online eligibility tool.
The eligibility tool and survey work best with Google Chrome or Microsoft Edge and will ask for a token/access code. This refers to your partner’s Service number, which is required for security reasons only. Please be assured that all survey responses are anonymous.
The closing date for FamCAS is Monday 7 April 2025.
How can FamCAS benefit me and my loved ones?
Northern Ireland: Department of Education NI Introduce A New Bill To Reduce Uniform Costs.
The Bill will provide the necessary powers to make a difference in terms of affordability of school uniforms.
Read more - https://education-ni.gov.uk/.../paul-givan-introd
Information provided by HIVE NI
Alton: Alton Armed Forces Veterans Breakfast Club The Market Hotel Starting on Saturday 15th March 10:0O am - 12:00pm
Information provided by South East HIVE Hub
February 27, 2025
DIO Families First newsletter – issue 24
Gloucestershire: Free low waste cookery classes in Cirencester and Tewkesbury
You will learn:
- How to make delicious recipes using every day ingredients which often get wasted
- How to minimise wasted food. Pick up tips on how to be more sustainable at home
Cirencester - every Monday from 2 June - 7 July 2025 at 10.30am - 1pm at Cirencester Baptist Church, Chesterton Lane, Cirencester, GL7 1YE
OR
Tewkesbury - every Wednesday from 7 May - 11 June 2025 from 10.30 - 1pm at Wheatpieces Community Centre, Columbine Road, Walton Cardiff, Tewkesbury, GL20 7SP
Contact Karen.stiles@gloucestershire.gov.uk to book a place or ask any questions
Call 01452 583452 / 07748 93384910
Information provided by Lyneham HIVE
Gloucestershire: Free access to Lumi Nova for children 7-12 yrs facing difficulties
Lumi Nova: Tales of Courage is a digital therapeutic that helps with the symptoms of worries or anxiety for children aged 7-12 years with mild to moderate needs, helping them learn skills to self-manage their worries/anxiety in an engaging intergalactic adventure game (app).
This app facilitates CBT (including psychoeducation and exposure therapy) recommended as a treatment intervention by NICE Anxiety disorders Quality standard and the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists clinical practice guidelines for the treatment of anxiety disorders.
Gloucestershire — Lumi Nova: Tales of Courage
Information provided by Lyneham HIVE
Northern Ireland: Supporting Our Veterans & Armed Forces Community - NI Veterans Commissioner David Johnstone
The Armed Forces Covenant is a promise by the nation to ensure that those who serve, those who have served, and their families are treated fairly. It is not about special treatment, it is about equality.
Backing the Covenant means recognising the sacrifices made by our Armed Forces community and ensuring they receive the same access to services, support, and opportunities as everyone else.
Let's do the right thing. Support the Covenant. The Veterans Commissioner, David Johnstone,
Information provided by HIVE NI
February 26, 2025
Hereford: Community Health & Wellbeing Event & Community Cafe
Information provided by Wales HIVE Hub
Brecon: Brecon Women's Festival - March 2025
Discover a variety of events over March in celebration of Brecon Women’s Festival, supported by the Hours Cafe & Bookshop, and a range of businesses throughout the town!
Find the festival programme – HERE.
Information provided by Wales HIVE Hub.
Basingstoke: Hampshire County Council Vacancies Hampshire Equipment Services
Job Details:
Job Reference: HCC620141
Salary Range: £26,918 - £29,616 per annum
Work Location: Hampshire Equipment Services, Basingstoke with travel across Hampshire using a council vehicle
Hours per week: 37
Contract Type: Permanent
Closing Date: 5 March 2025
Interview Date: w/c 10 March 2025
The Role:
Join Hampshire Equipment Services (HES) as an Equipment Technician, ensuring the safety of medical and mobility equipment. You’ll use a Council vehicle to deliver, collect, install, repair and service this equipment. Full training will be provided to ensure compliance with LOLER and PUWER safety standards.
What you’ll do:
- Perform inspections, tests, installations, maintenance and repairs in service users’ homes, schools, residential, and nursing homes across Hampshire.
- Ensure all equipment meets LOLER and PUWER safety standards.
- Conduct Portable Appliance Testing (PAT).
- Manage and schedule your own workload efficiently.
- Attend monthly team meetings at the Hampshire Equipment Service office in Basingstoke.
- Handle heavy objects such as bed parts, pressure-relief equipment, hoists, chairs and bath lifts.
Defence launches the Families Hub – an information portal to help navigate Service family life
The Families Hub – which signposts to information, support and organisations to help navigate all stages of Service family life – has launched.
For the first time, Armed Forces families will be able to access a “one stop shop” digital platform – which signposts to a wealth of information, support and organisations – to help you navigate Service family life.
The Families Hub is for all Armed Forces (Regular and Reserve) families and personnel – from the moment of entering the Forces, through to leaving.
Visit the Families Hub today and explore a range of topics, including partner support, housing, health and wellbeing, childcare and finance.
Fylde: AFC Armed Forces Community Foundation Veterans Programme
Information provided by Preston & Weeton HIVE
Medway: Lego Clubs at Medway Libraries
If you like building brick creations, no matter how old you are, come along to our free weekly drop-in sessions with the world’s favourite blocks - build, play and have fun!
Suitable for children aged 4 and over (under 8s must be accompanied by an adult).
Check days and times of Lego Clubs HERE
Information provided by South East HIVE Hub
Northern Ireland: The Wessex Cinema Aldergrove, March Showings
Please keep an eye on the BFBS Cinemas website for the latest listings and updates to all missing BBFC ratings and running times.
Information provided by HIVE NI
Weeton: Every Monday - Coffee Morning in the Community Centre
Information provided by Preston & Weeton HIVE
February 25, 2025
Staffordshire: St George's Day Celebrations Tamworth - 19 April
Tamworth’s popular St George’s Day celebrations are back for 2025 with an exciting line-up of entertainment set to take over the Castle Grounds, with medieval-themed fun for the whole family on Easter Saturday 19 April, from 10.30am – 5pm.
The FREE annual festival is one of the highlights of Tamworth Borough Council’s impressive calendar of outdoor events, drawing thousands of visitors from across the country. This year, the event falls on Easter weekend making it an even bigger ‘eggtravaganza!’
Full details: HERE
Information: Central HIVE Hub
Headspace App – Five FREE family & friends subscriptions available for Army Personnel and Army Civil Servants
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Army personnel and Army civil servants are eligible to sign up to Headspace for free, and also to extend this free subscription offer to five friends and family. To sign up, please go to https://work.headspace.com/britisharmy/member-enroll
Please use your @mod.gov.uk, @armymail.gov.uk or @csmail.mod.uk email address to verify your account when prompted.
Headspace says, “We make mental health support accessible to everyone, no matter their background or experience. Through our flagship Headspace app, we provide mindfulness tools for everyday life, including meditations, sleepcasts, mindful movement and focus exercises. Our enterprise offerings combine this experience with a human-centered model of care, with coaching, therapy, psychiatry and EAP services under one roof. Our team of experts ranges from mental health clinicians, to Emmy award-winning producers and data scientists, working together as one to help millions of people around the world be healthier and more productive.”
Lichfield: Month of the Military Child - DMS Whittington events
DMS(W) and DMA are actively supporting Armed Forces Families within the MOD and relevant charities with this year’s MotC, April 2025. ‘Purple up! Day’ a chance for everyone to dress in something purple to show their support on 25th April 2025.
WOSM will be holding an event please wait out for further events.
Information from: Central HIVE Hub
Medway: Find a Scout group in the area
Click HERE for more information.
Information provided by South East HIVE Hub
Month of the Military Child – April 2025
You can watch the Dandelions music video, a song written by the Armed Forces Children's Choir for Month of the Military Child, on YouTube: Dandelions Music Video.
Farnborough: All spring media skills bootcamp Farnborough international studios 3-14th March 2025
Information provided by South East HIVE Hub
Church Crookham: Army Welfare Service - volunteers needed for event committee
Information provided by South East HIVE Hub
Scotland: The Spring edition of Scotland4kids magazine is out now
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We live in hope that spring weather is just around the corner now that 2025 is well underway.
We’re back with another issue filled with unmissable articles, exclusive insights, fabulous features and exciting interviews.
From must-read education articles, in-depth opinion pieces and inventive ideas for the classroom, this is your sign to delve into our S4K Teachers’ Edition on your next break.
Show winter the door and get ready to feel rejuvenated for a sensational spring.
Read the new issue on your FREE APP available on both IOS and Android devices
https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/scotland4kids/id6443811975
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details...
Information provided by Leuchars HIVE
Church Crookham: Army Welfare Service - volunteers needed for SEN support groups
Information provided by South East HIVE Hub
Pirbright: HIVE Outreach at Soldier Academy every Thursday 1100hrs-1600hrs
The South East HIVE Hub will be providing an outreach service at The Soldier Academy in Pirbright every Thursday during term time. Come along and have a chat.
Information provided by South East HIVE Hub
Scotland: Poppyscotland can help with mobility if you are limited in your daily activities
We can arrange for an assessment to be undertaken by an occupational therapist (where statutory funding is not available or where statutory waiting lists are considered to be too lengthy), who will engage with you to understand the impact of your mobility issues and highlight your needs.
Information provided by Leuchars HIVE
Northern Ireland: Education Authority Northern Ireland (EANI) SEND Support Services
028 9031 7777
When you call, you’ll be asked to select one of the following options, to be connected to the area you are seeking support from:
Press option 1: for Statutory Assessment Review Service (SARS)
Press option 2: for SEND Advice and Information
Press option 3: for SEND Support Services
The helpdesk is open Monday to Friday, from 9am – 4:30pm.
Information provided by HIVE NI
February 24, 2025
Give Us Time: respite breaks for military families - 2025 dates are live!
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The charity ‘Give Us Time’ offers accommodation for respite breaks for UK military families. No referral is required from Welfare for families to sign up. Please see the posters for more details and the current March dates, but more 2025 dates are available on the website: https://giveustime.org.uk/For more information email: enquiries@giveustime.org.uk
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