Elgin: Storytime at Elgin Library every Monday

Storytimes at Elgin Library are moving!
Mondays 3.30pm

From September, please join us every Monday at 3.30pm for stories with our staff. There are tales for everyone - pirates, hedgehogs, spaceships, turtles - you name it, we have a story about it!

Come and enjoy the fun - no need to book, and suitable for 3yrs+

Information provided by Leuchars HIVE

Armed Forces Covenant Trust Fund - new awards to support Service children along their educational pathway

 

The Armed Forces Covenant Trust (the Trust) excited to announce the first awards made under the Service Pupil Support Programme – an MOD funded programme, which is part of the Armed Forces Families Fund. Over £1,700,000 has been awarded to 46 fantastic projects which will deliver real change to Armed Forces communities by improving the educational pathway of Service children and helping to address the challenges they can face.

Elgin: Earthtime Nature play drop in

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Information provided by Leuchars HIVE

St Andrews: Bookbug Sessions at St Andrews Library

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Information provided by Leuchars HIVE

Colerne, Chippenham & Corsham: Rise Trust & local baby/toddler groups

 

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To visit the Rise Trust website, please click here

Alternatively Colerne families can pop to coffee morning next Thursday 21 September and chat with a member of the Rise Trust team!

Information provided by Colerne HIVE

Dept for Work & Pensions - roundup of recent DWP announcements

 

Move to Universal Credit update
September's expansion of Move to Universal Credit (UC) activity to move claimants on legacy benefits to UC will see work commence in:

· Cumbria and Lancashire

· Essex

· Dorset, Wiltshire, Hampshire, and the Isle of Wight

· Southwest Wales

· East Scotland

· Lincolnshire, Nottinghamshire & Rutland

October will see work beginning in:

· Southeast Wales

· Central Scotland

We are continuing with our small-scale discovery phase for tax credit couples, learning and adapting to ensure couples can make a claim to UC effectively, before we increase numbers later this year.

From September we are commencing a separate small-scale discovery phase with other legacy benefit combinations, to support our preparation to move households on different combinations of legacy benefits at scale in 2024/25.

MOD Accommodation Team - We want your views on the provision of furniture in Service Family Accommodation (SFA)!

The MOD Accommodation Team are reviewing what items of furniture (for example, beds, settees, bookcases etc.) are provided to you in SFA and how furniture provision could be improved for you and Defence.

We want to find out:

• Your experience of furnishing SFA
• What furniture provision you may want and need in the future

Your participation in our research provides a key opportunity for you to shape future furniture provision for the entire Armed Forces!

Your views are very important to us, regardless of whether you have used MOD furniture provision or not.

Reading Force volunteer coordinators needed for bookclubs

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To visit the Reading Force website, click here

Lossiemouth: The Lossie 2-3 Group soup & pudding lunch every Thursday

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Information provided by Leuchars HIVE

The Armed Forces Covenant Fund Trust - Veterans’ Capital Housing Fund launches first programmes

 

The Armed Forces Covenant Fund Trust (The Trust) are delighted to announce two exciting new programmes under the Veterans’ Capital Housing Fund that will help increase the stock of housing available to veterans.

The grants awarded under these programmes will enable homes for veterans with a housing need to be brought up-to-date through a refurbishment grant, or will support organisations with the early-stage development of more complex building projects.