Together as one

MKC Heroes is a national support group for military children which uses a network of after-school clubs to bring together youngsters aged between three and 18. Members are ambassadors for Service families acr...

The way forward

AFF has delved deeper into researching the barriers to spousal employment among the Forces. In partnership with Warwick University’s Institute for Employment Research and QinetiQ, we identified that nearly one...

Information, consultation and consideration

IN A very useful meeting with Tobias Elwood, the Minister for Defence People and Veterans, we discussed the different policies that are currently being developed by the MOD under the ‘people programme’ – import...

Rebasing round-up

Over the next 12-18 months, many Army families will be involved in unit moves as part of the Army Rebasing Programme. Army&You spoke to Collette Musgrave, AFF’s UK & Overseas Director, about this large ...

Fostering in the Forces

Service couple Lisa and Daniel Hinton have been foster carers with the National Fostering Agency (NFA) for almost a decade. We caught up with them to find out why fostering can be well suited to Army life…  ...

A postcard from… Nairobi

Anna Sutherland, soldier husband Stephen, son Euan (18), daughter Zara (14) tell us about their life as an Army family in Nairobi, Kenya... How long have you been an Army family? 19 years. Time in Kenya:...

Building resilience

ACCORDING to Place2Be, a national children’s charity, one-in-five primary school children will experience a mental health difficulty at least once and many adults with mental health issues can trace their sympt...

Teacher’s tribute to the fallen

FINE artist Sam Bailey has created a lasting legacy to fallen British soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan. Her drawings of Servicemen and women have been brought together in two projects – The Mighty 456 and The I...

Appealing action

Nia Davies and husband Steve have been married 11 years and have two children, Danny (10) and Milly (8). After a nine-month tour in Afghanistan for Steve, the family were looking forward to some time together a...

Our Army Family: The Dawson-Coupers

Sally Dawson-Couper and her serving wife Zoe share their journey to adopting three boys… WE MET when Zoe came along to my rugby club, writes Sally. At the time, I was training to be a teacher and Zoe was l...