March 5, 2025
Folkestone: New Romney Armed Forces Veterans Drop-In on the 2nd Friday of Every Month, 10am till 12 Noon
Chatham: Great Lines Parkrun Every Saturday, 9am
Everyone is welcome to join us at Great Lines parkrun! To run and record a time, you first need to register and print off a barcode that is unique to you. After that you can just turn up and run. For more information CLICK HERE
Volunteers Needed
If anyone can volunteer please email greatlines@parkrun.com
Information provided by South East HIVE Hub
Vale of Glamorgan: Garden Waste Collections
Reminder: Fortnightly garden waste collections started from 03 Mar 25
If you have signed up for a 2025/26 garden waste collection subscription, we will collect your garden waste every two weeks between 03 March 2025 and 28 November 2025, before the winter book and collect service starts
Not subscribed yet? Residents who sign up before 10 March 2025 will be able to subscribe to our early bird offer from £36 per year, the same price as in 2024.
The Council is currently reviewing all its charges for 2025/26 and prices for garden waste subscriptions may increase after 10 March 2025
You can check your collection dates, sign up for email reminders, and subscribe to the 2025/26 service online.
Information provided by Wales HIVE Hub.
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
Give Us Time: New Motorhome Breaks Now Available
Give Us Time have had a new donation of breaks from the team at Sponsored Breaks. These are 3-day/2-night stays in their fully kitted out motorhome, which sleeps up to 4 people. The motorhome is based in Wolverhampton, so does need to be collected and dropped off back to site, and any drivers must be between 25 and 70 with 2 years’ experience of driving and less than 6 points on licence. Unfortunately no pets are allowed.
The dates available include some school holiday dates for Easter, half term, and the summer holidays:
- 4/5/6 April
- 11/12/13 April
- 18/19/20 April
- 25/26/27 April
- 23/24/25 May
- 30/31/1 May-June
- 4/5/6 July
- 25/26/27 July
- 30/31/1 July-Aug
- 2/3/4 Aug
- 6/7/8 Aug
- 9/10/11 Aug
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.
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