January 23, 2025

Universal Credit for Armed Forces personnel posted overseas

 

Serving Personnel and families are entitled to claim Universal Credit, regardless of their location. This means families stationed overseas can submit claims in the same way as those in the UK.

Corsham: Creative Market dates for 2025

 

Please click here to visit the website

Information provided by Colerne HIVE

Highlands: MLG (Military Liaison Group) awareness resource for Highlands Reserves and veterans

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Information provided by Leuchars HIVE

January 22, 2025

Grantham: Lincolnshire Children's Centres Best Start - Lincolnshire BME Inclusion Service



Working with BME families, supporting parents and their children's integration within the community and helping them in accessing local services. For more detailed information email:

pabced@pablanguages.co.uk

Information provided by Grantham HIVE


 

Grantham: Considering starting a family?




Copies of DadPad available in the HIVE

Information provided by Grantham HIVE



 

Kent County Council: Support for new parents who want to quit smoking




Are you a new parent who wants to quit smoking? 

The KCC Smokefree Team has launched a pilot to support parents with a baby under twelve-weeks old with:

- home visits from a specialist adviser

- access to prescription products to help you quit including a free e-cigarette starter kit.

Click HERE for more information

Information provided by South East HIVE Hub

Colerne & Corsham: SOS 'Support on Saturdays' Club - last Saturday of the month

 

To book please email josh.kingston102@mod.gov.uk

Information provided by Colerne HIVE

Pinnacle Group - free coaching & mentoring

 

Do you have links to the military community? Pinnacle Group's Social Value team deliver employability, money management and business mentoring programmes which are free to SP, Veterans, Reservists, and their Spouses / Partners and their families.

So whether you are looking to change your job or find yourself out of work we can support you to get that next role via our employability programmes and if you are someone looking to start a business or maybe you are a Veteran or Spouse / Partner with an Existing Business looking for support to grow your income and profits, we have business mentoring programmes where experienced Business Mentors will support you all the way.

For more information please visit https://www.pinnacleservicefamilies.co.uk/families-first/family-and-community-support/ or email psv@pinnaclegroup.co.uk​

West Midlands: Shrewsbury & Telford Hospital Trust - Veterans and Families Volunteer to Career Programme


 More information: HERE

Information provided by: Central HIVE Hub

January 21, 2025

Over £3.3 million awarded in latest round of Covenant Fund awards



Over £3.3 million awarded in latest round of Covenant Fund awards

The Armed Forces Covenant Trust (the Trust) is delighted to announce over £3.3 million has been awarded in the latest series of grants made under the Covenant Fund.

The Trust has supported a total of 34 fantastic projects across four different Covenant Fund programmes, all set to make significant improvements for Armed Forces communities across the UK.
  • Service Women: Seen & Heard has awarded over £700K to eight projects tackling the underlying issues unique to serving women, providing improved access to support for their mental and physical health and wellbeing.
  • Free From Fear has awarded just over £700K to five projects addressing domestic abuse through preventative measures or providing support routes for survivors in Armed Forces communities.
  • Serving Families: On the Move has awarded just over £1M to 11 projects helping to improve the quality of life for Service families impacted by relocation.
  • Embedding Prevention of Veteran Suicide has awarded just over £860K to 10 projects enabling systemic change and long-term, sustainable impact, building on the findings from the One is Too Many programme.