News

New passport guidance

Revised guidance has been issued for the MOD provision of passports for service personnel and their families. Paper applications have now been disc...

eVisa concerns

Since the introduction of eVisas on 1 January 2025, the AFF Foreign & Commonwealth team has received numerous enquiries from spouses worried abo...

A step into the unknown

Young Victoria Gilkes had little idea of the life that lay ahead of her as the wife of a serving soldier with the British Army of the Rhine when she...

New network for military partners

The e50K Strategic Advisory Network was formed in 2020 and is committed to exclusively employing partners and spouses from all three services into f...

Resources for military children

Deployment can be a challenging time, bringing a host of conflicting feelings. Forces Children Scotland, with funding from the Armed Forces Covenant...

Postcard from Norway

Ilimo – aka Rav (serving), Sila and Jaden How long have you been an army family? Just over 16 years and we’ve been really fortunate to have had fi...

Follow your self-employment dream

X- Forces Enterprise (XFE) is a leading provider of business support within the armed forces community. All of its training and events are fully ope...

Double success for AFF teams

A soldier was given assistance by two of AFF’s specialist teams while he was on assignment overseas. Pte Jeannick Serieux contacted the Foreign &am...

The soldier’s soldier

A blog from Army&You’s summer 2025 edition by Ellen Owusu. Are you a military spouse who is working hard to have a thriving career, and there i...

New look for FFJ

The Forces Families Jobs website has undergone a major revamp with the aim of making it a go-to career platform for military spouses and partners. ...