March 5, 2025
Lyneham: MOD Lyneham seeks community support for Independent Advisory Panel
March 4, 2025
Op ASCEND – Careers After Service
Op ASCEND is a free, government-backed service to support veterans in growing their careers.
Whether you’re a veteran seeking employment or an employer looking to attract skilled veterans to your workforce, find out what signing up to the Op ASCEND service can do for you.
For more information visit: https://careersafterservice.campaign.gov.uk
Wiltshire: Family and Community Learning courses - free for Military families
Wiltshire Council's Family and Community Learning team offer learners a range of courses which lead to the development of new skills, improved personal achievement and positive outcomes. After learning with them, you can move on to further study, qualifications, jobs and volunteering.
Family and Community Learning includes a range of online and community-based courses designed to help people of different ages and backgrounds to:
- Gain a new skill
- Reconnect with learning
- Prepare to progress to formal courses
- Learn how to support their children better
Click the posters below to learn more, or click here to visit the website
How to protect yourself from Loan Sharks
A loan shark – or illegal money lender - is someone who lends money illegally without proper authorisation from the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA).
That means if you borrow from them, they don’t have to follow the rules – they can decide how much you pay back and when.
These criminals are not always easy to spot - they can be a friend, a fellow service member, even a senior officer.
Whoever they are, they will usually appear as a friendly face, offering you a favour. They may tell you that what they are offering is nothing more than peer-to-peer lending and their offer may seem hard to resist.
But very quickly the situation can spiral out of control, and you could find yourself having to pay back much more than you initially borrowed. You might even be subjected to threats, violence and intimidation if you struggle to make a payment.
There are some signs that you can look out for, which may indicate that an agreement has crossed the line from peer-to-peer lending into more sinister and dangerous territory.
March 3, 2025
Armed Forces Covenant Fund Trust: Latest round of grants under The Armed Forces Families Fund - Early Years Programme
Part of the MOD’s Armed Forces Families Fund (AF3), The Early Years Programme will award grants between £5,000 and £80,000 towards projects that enable early childhood education and childcare settings to meet specific needs of young service children.
What’s the programme all about?
The Early Years programme is designed to help Armed Forces families access good quality early childhood education and childcare provision close to where they live or serve.
The programme is designed to address barriers that service families may experience in accessing good quality childcare for their preschool aged children and will support projects lasting up to two years that can meet one of the four outcomes:
• Expanded capacity in early years settings, allowing more service children to attend.
• Enhanced learning environments that better support the educational development of service children.
• Improved staff skills and knowledge through targeted training and professional development.
• Establishing collaborative networks and shared resources through clusters to effectively address the needs of service children.
Fife: Do you have questions about how a child or young person is developing?
If you're a parent, carer or professional looking for advice and support, call our children's services phoneline on 01592 226 699.
Tuesdays 10am–12 noon
Wednesdays 2pm–4pm
Members of the following teams are on hand to take your call:
Speech and language therapy
Occupational therapy
Physiotherapy
Neurodevelopment
Child Development Centre
Children’s services phone line
Information provided by Leuchars HIVE
Northern Ireland: Royal Naval Reserve Unit Lisburn - HMS Hibernia
If so scan the QR code from a non MOD device for more details.
Information provided by HIVE NI
February 27, 2025
Gloucestershire: Free access to Lumi Nova for children 7-12 yrs facing difficulties
Lumi Nova: Tales of Courage is a digital therapeutic that helps with the symptoms of worries or anxiety for children aged 7-12 years with mild to moderate needs, helping them learn skills to self-manage their worries/anxiety in an engaging intergalactic adventure game (app).
This app facilitates CBT (including psychoeducation and exposure therapy) recommended as a treatment intervention by NICE Anxiety disorders Quality standard and the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists clinical practice guidelines for the treatment of anxiety disorders.
Gloucestershire — Lumi Nova: Tales of Courage
Information provided by Lyneham HIVE
Northern Ireland: Supporting Our Veterans & Armed Forces Community - NI Veterans Commissioner David Johnstone
The Armed Forces Covenant is a promise by the nation to ensure that those who serve, those who have served, and their families are treated fairly. It is not about special treatment, it is about equality.
Backing the Covenant means recognising the sacrifices made by our Armed Forces community and ensuring they receive the same access to services, support, and opportunities as everyone else.
Let's do the right thing. Support the Covenant. The Veterans Commissioner, David Johnstone,
Information provided by HIVE NI
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