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Stem cell donation - sign up to save a life!

 

Every 20 minutes someone in the UK is diagnosed with blood cancer.

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30,000 new donors are needed in the UK each year to find matches for the steadily rising number of stem cell transplants taking place in the UK every year. Stem cells are found in the bone marrow – a soft, spongy tissue at the centre of certain bones – and can produce all essential blood cells, including red and white cells and platelets (which stop bleeding).

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AWS Community Support annual report 2024

 

The Army Welfare service is proud to present the AWS Community Support Annual Report for 2024.

This Report outlines some of the key achievements delivered and challenges faced by our team over the past year. It provides an overview of key areas of work, statistical information and also looks forward to the year ahead. It demonstrates the breadth and depth of the impact that the Community Support team have.​

Please click the image above to read this report online.

Hullavington: Free Yogalates at Buckley Barracks Community Centre - starting Wed 6 Nov

 

With thanks to VIVO for some generous funding, the 9 Regt RLC Welfare department are now taking bookings for the first YOGALATES session that will take place on Wednesday 6th November 1000-1100.

All sessions will be completely free of charge!

Soft play and the café will be open for the usual coffee morning as well. This is open to all serving families living on the patch.

Interested? You need to register at 9regtwelfare@gmail.com who will book you in for either one session or a few!

Instructor Debbie says ‘the class is a combination of basic yoga and mat-based Pilate moves, designed to improve mobility, flexibility and build body strength. The class is suitable for all ages and abilities, shapes and sizes.'

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Forces in Mind Trust post-Service employment research policy & practice summaries

New research and policy summaries focused on post-Service employment among ex-Service personnel and their partners.

These summaries form part of our commitment to ensuring evidence is at the heart of decision making for the benefit of ex-Service personnel and their families.

The summaries provide easy digestible access to up to date research evidence and an overview of current policy and service provision focused on post-Service employment among ex-Service personnel and their partners.

A robust methodology has been used to create these summaries meaning they are an accurate and trustworthy source of information which can used to inform and transform policy, practice, and future research priorities.

You can access the full summaries and two-page infographics here:

Research summary: Research | FiMT Research Centre (fimt-rc.org)

Policy summary: Policy Practice | FiMT Research Centre (fimt-rc.org)

Kinloss: BookBug - songs,rhymes and stories for babies and toddlers

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Please contact Margaret.duncan115@mod.gov.uk for further details.

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Fife: Bookbug Sessions, free, fun and friendly

Bookbug sessions are free, fun and friendly events for babies, toddlers, pre-schoolers and their families to enjoy together. 

Coming along to sessions is a great way to spend some quality time with your little one and gives you the opportunity to share stories, songs and rhymes with other parents/carers and their children.

Bookbug is Scottish Book Trust’s national Early Years programme. 

As a national charity, Scottish Book Trust delivers the Bookbug programme locally by working in partnership with local library and education services, the health service and third sector organisations. 

To support local delivery of the Bookbug programme, Scottish Book Trust provides its partners with training, advice and Bookbug bags of books.

Sessions held in Cupar, St Andrews, Rosyth and Dunfermline to find your nearest Bookbug session or more information 👉 https://www.onfife.com/libraries-archives/bookbug-sessions

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Wiltshire: 'Recycle Week' – highlighting everyday items that can be recycled

 

This week Wiltshire Council were delighted to join this year’s Recycle Week, which is organised by Recycle Now and is now in its twenty-first year.

This year’s theme, Rescue Me, aims to empower people to look out for the five items missed most often in recycling collections because they are placed in the household waste bin. This is also a key theme of the Council's ongoing 'Recycling: Let’s Sort It' campaign.

These items include:

• Empty aerosols
• Yoghurt pots
• Toilet roll tubes
• Cleaning spray bottles
• Cans

All of the above items can be recycled in your blue-lidded bin or bag.

To help Wiltshire Council achieve our goal of recycling more, please make sure you are recycling more of the right things, more often. Materials collected for recycling are sent to re-processors to be turned into new products or raw materials to go back into the manufacturing process.

Wiltshire Council have been spotlighting commonly missed items on their social media channels this week, so make sure you’re following them on Facebook and X.

Find out more about what you can recycle at home in Wiltshire

What happens to waste and recycling in Wiltshire

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'Travel to Refuge' scheme - free travel for those fleeing domestic abuse

 

Travel to Refuge is an umbrella scheme in which travel companies cover the cost of train or coach tickets for women, men and children escaping domestic abuse travelling to refuge accommodation. It’s made up of two schemes:

• Rail to Refuge, a joint initiative between Women’s Aid and the Rail Delivery Group, set up in April 2020, providing free rail travel for survivors of abuse.

• Road to Refuge, a joint initiative between Women’s Aid and National Express, set up in 2023, providing free coach travel for survivors of abuse.

For more infomation please visit: Travel to Refuge