Your vote counts

IT’S great news that the electoral voting window has been extended to ensure that Armed Forces families living overseas will be able to get their postal vote back to the ballot. The Electoral Registration an...

Join the world’s library

BOOKCROSSING is a free, fun way to track and share books via social networking. You can tag and track your books by marking them with a unique identity  number – once it’s registered on the site, you can fol...

Sign up for swap shop

LITTLE Wardrobe is a new online initiative giving you the opportunity to swap the clothes your little ones have outgrown. It’s an easy way to exchange top quality and pre-loved clothing for both babies and c...

A mother’s tale

FORMER Army mum Eleanor Broaders has had a book of her poetry accepted into the Imperial War Museum’s permanent collection. The poet describes her self-published collection, Run Fast, Keep Low as “the st...

Swim 4 SUDEP

EIGHT-YEAR-OLD Larkhill Primary School pupil Jessica Soulsby swam the equivalent of the English Channel to raise money for SUDEP Action. She was inspired to take on the 21-mile challenge in memory of Servic...

£65million for war heroes and families

SERVICE personnel, veterans and their families are benefitting from a record-breaking £65 million windfall that will be ploughed into projects and initiatives to help improve their lives. Defence Minister, A...

Extra funding for Service pupils

IF you’re an Army family with a child in a state school in England, you have until 16 January 2014 to notify your school of their eligibility for the Service Pupil Premium (SPP), which helps schools to support ...

Volunteer with AFF: Be our boots on the ground

AFF is looking for people to “be our boots on the ground” in an exciting new volunteer programme launching this January. Our aim is to have something to suit everyone and we are focusing on flexible roles wi...

What happens to your enquiry to AFF?

MORE than 9,000 families approached AFF last year to ask for help or simply to tell us their thoughts. Our local AFF Co-ordinators can resolve individual problems, but what if what is happening to you is hap...

Christmas cheers for families from Army’s top man

Christmas message from General Sir Peter Wall KCB CBE ADC Gen, Chief of the General Staff The support we all receive from our families has been a key feature of the era of campaigning that is almost behind u...