Wiltshire: November SEND updates - new resource bases, events and courses

Please click here to read the latest newsletter online

Information provided by Colerne & Lyneham HIVE

Lyneham: Little Lights group continuing every other Friday at MOD Lyneham Community Centre

 

Please click here to follow the 'Little Lights - Lyneham' Facebook page

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Give Us Time - Welfare Update Winter 2025

Defence Vegan & Vegetarian Network

Find out more about the Defence Vegan/Vegetarian Network

Serving Personnel can now register their status as Vegan or Vegetarian on JPA 

St Athan: Free Family Play Session on Thursdays in Term Time at The Gathering Place, St Athan

Information provided by Wales HIVE Hub.

Wiltshire: Family Hub e-newsletter - issue 9

 

Please click here to read this e-newsletter online

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Hereford: Herefordshire Libraries - Under Fives

 

Children are welcome to join the library from birth and enjoy the great choice of board and picture books in our libraries. There are plenty of spaces to explore, free activities to enjoy and stories to share. Regularly sharing books, stories and rhymes can have a big impact on their development and helps to build a baby's early language skills whilst encouraging a lifelong love of reading.

10 things you will find for under-fives in our children's librariesBoard books: sturdy books for little hands!

Picture books: beautifully illustrated stories to share including fairy tales and bedtime stories
Books for learning new nursery rhymes and songs
Early learning: books about colours, shapes, animals, to help your child understand the world around them.

Hereford: Garden Waste Collection Service

Subscribe to our new garden waste service

You cut. We collect. Nature composts.

Imagine more time to enjoy your garden - not just work in it. With our new fortnightly garden waste collection service, starting in March 2026, you can spend less time transporting waste and more time relaxing in your outdoor space.

Our year-round service (excluding just two weeks at Christmas) will collect your garden waste directly from your property and deliver it for composting at a local facility.

Subscriptions will open on 22 October 2025, so sign up soon to ensure you're ready for collections to start on 30 March 2026.

If you sign up before 9am on 1 December 2025 you will be entered into a prize draw where 10 winners will be selected at random to win a subscription for a year. For further information see the prize draw terms and conditions.

Sign up to the garden waste collection service

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Worthy Down: Military Povost Guard Service (MPGS)

 

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South East: Reserve Forces' & Cadets' Association for the South East

South East Reserve Forces’ and Cadets’ Association (SERFCA) is one of 13 RFCAs UK-wide, SERFCA is a Ministry of Defence (MOD) Arms’ Length Body, responsible to the Defence Council, but separate from military chains-of-command. SERFCA supports the Reserve Forces and Cadets from the Royal Navy, Army and Royal Air Force in the Counties of Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, Hampshire, the Isle of Wight, Kent, Oxfordshire, Surrey, and East and West Sussex. SERFCA also helps connect Defence with Society.

If you are interested in becoming a 'Reservist' please click HERE for more information.

Information provided by South East HIVE Hub.