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September 29, 2024

Northern Ireland: NIdirect Cost of Living Information and Advice

 
Information and advice about support with the cost of living, including:
• help with energy costs
• help with your income
• help for families and children
• help for older people
• help with housing
• help with other costs
Find out more: https://www.nidirect.gov.uk/cost-of-living
Jobs & Benefits Northern Ireland

Information provided by HIVE NI

September 27, 2024

South Cerney: AWS Play & Youth Clubs have re-started!

 

Please note the new timings and change in age groups

Information provided by Lyneham HIVE

West Midlands: Donnington Community Hub - Veterans' Lunch Offer


Information provided by: Central HIVE Hub

 

West Midlands: Visiting Shrewsbury or Ludlow Town Centres Park & Ride £1 return until 31 March


Visiting Shrewsbury or Ludlow town centres?


Park and ride costs just £1 return until 31 March - and in Shrewsbury is FREE for accompanied under-16s.


In Shrewsbury the fare applies to passengers boarding at Harlescott, Meole Brace and Oxon park and ride sites.

 In Ludlow the fare applies to passengers boarding at the ECO park site.

https://next.shropshire.gov.uk/public.../park-and-ride/

Information provided by: Central HIVE Hub

September 26, 2024

The Military children’s charity, Little Troopers, is celebrating ten years of its ‘Little Trooper of the Month’ award scheme

 


Established in 2014 to recognise children of our British Armed Forces the charity has awarded medals to 120 children who have been especially brave and resilient in the face of adversity.

The Little Troopers winners are all children who have parents serving in the forces and understand first-hand how challenging life can be growing up with a serving parent. Many of the youngsters have experienced long periods of separation from their serving parent due to deployments and military exercises, as well as frequent house and school moves, on top of other challenging life circumstances at home.

Previous winners have included eight-year-old Rubi Smith from Scotland, who has permanent hearing loss in one ear and has amazed her family by continuing to compete in singing competitions; as well as three-year-old Austin Porter from Chippenham who copes with daily pain caused by chronic pancreatitis and has undergone surgery on several occasions while his Dad has been deployed overseas multiple times.

Stafford: Staffordshire County Council new careers website


 Where you can make a difference!

Our new careers website is live! It has a new design and a new ambassador programme that lets you hear directly from our employees about what it's like to work here.

The website, which is the best place to learn about all the jobs and opportunities we have on offer.

On the new website, you can:

➡ Explore our different departments and find out what we do
➡ Search for jobs that match your skills and interests
➡ Learn more about our benefits and career development opportunities
➡ Meet our ambassadors, real employees who talk about their experiences working here.

We're especially excited about our new ambassador programme. We asked colleagues to tell us their career stories, and we were blown away by their passion and dedication.


Information provided by Stafford HIVE

September 25, 2024

Non-UK Nationals: Settlement fees waived for bereaved partners facing destitution

 
A news article was published recently on Gov.uk, highlighting that people dealing with the death of their partner and facing financial hardship will soon be able to apply to have the application fee for settlement waived.​ The implementation date in the article is 9 Oct 24.

This update applies equally to the Armed Forces community including veterans: "Bereaved partners of members of HM Armed Forces, Gurkhas or Hong Kong military unit veterans (discharged before 1 July 1997) may also benefit from this fee waiver.​"

To read the article in full, please go to: Settlement fees waived for bereaved partners facing destitution - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk).

Army HIVE's Non-UK National team can be contacted for further information via this email address: rc-pers-hive-nonuknat-0mailbox@mod.gov.uk