RBLI Life Works Website is Now Live

We are proud to announce the new Life Works website is now LIVE!

If you’re a veteran or immediate family of currently serving military personnel and looking for employment support, it’s now even easier to access our award-winning programme.

The new website contains updated features including a course calendar for easily finding a Lifeworks programme in your area, booking a course and contacting our dedicated team for further information. 

You will also have the opportunity to gain access to the Lifeworks Hub; a unique area of the website created to help you on your job search with a list of our employment partners, veteran friendly job opportunities and a range of useful material for additional support. 

Visit the new Lifeworks website today: https://wearelifeworks.org.uk/

NHS Healthy Start

What is Healthy Start?

If you’re more than 10 weeks pregnant or have a child under 4, you may be entitled to get help to buy healthy food and milk.

If you’re eligible, you’ll be sent a Healthy Start card with money on it that you can use in some UK shops. 

We’ll add your benefit onto this card every 4 weeks.

You can use your card to buy:
plain liquid cow’s milk
fresh, frozen, and tinned fruit and vegetables
fresh, dried, and tinned pulses
infant formula milk based on cow’s milk

You can also use your card to collect:

Healthy Start vitamins – these support you during pregnancy and breastfeeding vitamin drops for babies and young children – these are suitable from birth to 4 years old

Further information can be found here: www.healthystart.nhs.uk

Blackpool: The Hole in Wand - Magical mini golf experience

Hole in Wand golf attraction in Blackpool

Each hole has a different theme where you enter into a different experience… Visit a train station, a forest and a castle! Your score for each hole adds towards your final magical powers, earning you a complimentary wizard potion on completion. Will you win ‘Tears of a Wizard’ or ‘Unicorn Essence’?

This new attraction is located in part of the empty Woolworths/Poundland building on the seafront, accessed from Bank Hey Street.

www.theholeinwand.com/blackpool/

Information provided by Preston & Weeton HIVE

Catterick: 3AEC Drop-in Service every Wednesday at the Catterick Garrison Hub

 

Information provided by Catterick HIVE

DIO: Updates on accommodation contracts

Updates on Accommodation contracts

For updates on the Accommodation contracts, please go to Service Family Accommodation - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)where you can subscribe for update notifications

Missed Appointments in the North and Central Regions

Unfortunately, a number of missed appointments were experienced by families earlier this week in Amey’s North and Central regions. This was a result of a server security certificate expiring on 7 August which meant appointments did not transfer from Amey’s scheduling system to its operatives’ hand-held devices from 7-9 August.

When the problem became apparent, Amey’s Regional Service Centre staff intervened to schedule engineers by telephone to attend the planned appointments. Where appointments are confirmed to have been missed, Amey’s Regional Service Centre will issue an apology, re-book appointments and proactively issue compensation.

Kooth - health and well-being support for Service children

 

Need to talk? If you are a child with a parent serving in the British Armed Forces or working for the MOD or the British Government in the UK or overseas, you can find support anonymously for your mental health and wellbeing today.

Children aged 11-18 can find:

• Live chat with a friendly mental health practitioner
• Helpful articles
• Discussion boards
• Self-help tools

Sign up for free today at kooth.com/mod.

Catterick: Service Families Housing Surgery at Catterick Garrison Hub every Thursday AM

Information provided by Catterick HIVE

 

North Yorkshire: Have you downloaded the Library App yet?

Have you downloaded the library app yet? You can take our libraries with you wherever you go!

You can browse the catalogue and reserve books, manage and renew loans, and access a huge range of FREE digital resources! The app is downloadable in all the usual places, just search for ‘North Yorkshire Libraries’

Information provided by Catterick HIVE

 

Cost of Living Support – Help for Households

 Cost of Living Support – Help for Households

Countries around the world are facing rising goods and energy prices, inflation and cost of living pressures after the pandemic and Putin’s invasion of Ukraine.

We know people are worried, so the government is offering help for households.

To see what cost of living support you could be eligible for go to Cost of living support 

 Help for Households cost of living

Future Accommodation Model (FAM) pilot update

Future Accommodation Model pilot update

We are now three years into the FAM pilot. Throughout that time Defence has been working to create the best possible accommodation offer for Service personnel, their families and partners.

All those who are eligible can still take advantage of the FAM offer until the pilot end on the 31 March 2023.

Those expecting to be posted to the pilot sites: HMNB Clyde, Aldershot Garrison and RAF Wittering must have a Report for Duty date no later than the 31 March 2023.

What’s next for FAM…

For further information please click here