September 2, 2025

Site User Guide

 

Tips to help navigate this blog:

 The blog is best viewed on a personal device because the MODnet firewall blocks access to some links.

 Top header: 

  • Most recent posts will always take you back to the homepage of the blog
  • Links to local information by region in England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales
  • Link to the HIVE’s Overseas Blog covering worldwide locations through the International HIVE (iHIVE) as well as local information from the locations where there is a HIVE Information Centre: Brunei, Brunssum, Gibraltar, Naples, Sennelager and SHAPE
  • Link to the HIVE’s British Forces Cyprus Blog
  • Location Guides for the UK
  • Information Sheets by subject, covering information generic to Service Personnel and their families wherever they are based, plus UK-specific links:
    • Accommodation
    • Childcare, Schools and Education
    • Domestic Abuse Support
    • Employment
    • Finance
    • Health & Wellbeing
  • Link to a map providing contact details for all Army HIVEs within the UK and Overseas
  • HIVE's social media platforms

 

Left hand side column:

·       Search engine - search for anything on the site. If you want to look at posts uploaded by a specific UK HIVE, use the following search phrase in inverted commas: 'information provided by x HIVE' eg 'information provided by Colerne HIVE' 

·       Sign up to receive regular email updates: you can select as many of the Army HIVEs as you wish, both those in the UK and Overseas 

·       Find information by subject using the hyperlinked labels 

·       Blog archive: search for information by year and month

 

 Central column

All the posts in date order from the most recent first.

 

 Right hand side column: 

·       Link to enquiry form: use it to ask HIVE for further information. An email address or mobile phone number is required 

·       Popular posts