Little Troopers announces Christmas Smiles plans for December

 

The charity Little Troopers has the announced details of its 2024 Christmas Smiles campaign to support military children who have a parent deployed over the festive period.

With support from BAE Systems and Vivo Defence Services, Little Troopers will once again be sending out 2,500 special Christmas boxes to military children who are separated from their serving parent this December. Each Christmas box will be packed with Little Troopers resources to help children through deployment, a Little Troopers book and other treats to bring Christmas Smiles to thousands of forces children.

As well as the Christmas boxes, Little Troopers has organised a busy calendar of free festive events and activities, including a magical storytelling event with the Chelsea Pensioners at the Royal Hospital in London, a free screening of Paddington in Peru at five ODEON cinemas and an online pantomime and elf workshop that families can join wherever they are posted in the world. The charity is also working with local theatres to giveaway pantomime tickets throughout December.

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Leuchars: Deployment support for RAF personnel at Leuchars

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RAF Personnel stationed at Leuchars are part of the military community, they and their families are welcomed to Station events, coffee mornings and activities provided by the Leuchars Welfare Teams. 

HIVE is also here for the RAF Families and has contact with the RAF HIVE Information Support Officer and SSAFA at RAF Lossiemouth. 

RAF Lossiemouth HIVE have produce the Deployment Support document above for RAF personnel at Leuchars.

If you require further help then please contact HIVE at Leuchars.

Information provided by Leuchars HIVE

Huggable Heroes

 

Please click here to visit the Huggable Heroes website

Personal Accident and Life Insurance Schemes for Service Personnel

 

MOD is re-evaluating the Personal Accident Insurance Scheme and Life Insurance Scheme offer for personnel. A procurement exercise has been completed and we are pleased to announce that a new Broker, The Risk Factor, has been appointed. Initial discussions have taken place, and our priority is the continuation of appropriate cover for existing policyholders with as little disruption as possible.

As this is a new supplier, insurance products will no longer be branded as PAX. Existing PAX Personal Accident Insurance Scheme members should note that a replacement Personal Accident Insurance Scheme (providing similar benefits) will be introduced on 1 June 2023, for which they will need to apply if they wish to maintain Personal Accident Insurance cover. There will be no automatic transfer from PAX to the new provider.

There is no action for policyholders to take at this point. Once arrangements for how to join the new Insurance Scheme(s) have been finalised these details will be made available along with the new Scheme’s policy terms and conditions so individuals can make an informed choice based on their requirements (we expect this to be mid-May).

MOD personnel: please see 2023DIN01-023

New stories added to Little Troopers Treasures: keeping forces families connected, even when miles apart

 

New stories added to Little Troopers Treasures: keeping forces families connected, even when miles apart.

Little Troopers Treasures

Families Deployment Guide ed 5

 

Click on the image above to read the support guide in full.

All Together: Little Troopers launches new deployment club

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The Experience of Parental Absence In Military Families

Is your serving person currently working away? Understand more about how this may affect your young person's feelings and behaviours with this downloadable resource from the Naval Families Federation, available HERE

Please note that some of this information will be relevant to military families regardless of which Service you are part of!

Little Troopers' Send-a-Hug & Separation Packs

As a charity Little Troopers have Separation Packs and Send a Hug Kits for military families. 

These are tangible resources to help the British Army through repeated separation periods from their service person.