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Legal help abroad

The overseas team at AFF gets enquiries each year about legal assistance when abroad. For help with criminal matters overseas, service personnel an...

Childcare funding overseas

Eligible working families assigned overseas can now access 15 hours of early years childcare funding for children aged between nine months and three...

Banter and breakfast

For many servicemen and women, making the transition out of the military isn’t a case of returning to civvy street – it’s entering civilian life for...

Keeping in touch overseas

Following several years of changes in the international postal system, an invitation to visit the HQ British Forces Post Office (BFPO) at RAF Northo...

Achieve your potential

If you live in Leicester, Leicestershire or Rutland and you’re looking for the next step in your career, the S.P.E.E.D Project offers employability ...

A postcard from Nairobi

Nicky, Gee (serving), Tana (21) and Keisha (17) How long have you been an army family? 29 years and 11 quarters and about to embark on our last po...

Gambling support

Gambling support charity GamCare has launched a new gambling prevention and awareness programme to help reduce gambling harm in the armed forces. T...

Military wives assemble

Military spouses Soph and Kirsha feature on Pad Wives Assemble, a podcast about military life. “The #padcast was created when we saw a huge gap in ...

Boxes will bring Christmas Smiles

More than 100 soldiers, school pupils and volunteers packed 2,500 special Christmas boxes for military children who have a parent deployed overseas ...

Poppy artist calls for fingerprints

Kirsty Chapman, who uses fingerprints to create military-themed remembrance artwork, is asking for veterans and serving personnel to send theirs for...