Separation struggles
Military child Freddie Gidalla, aged 11, has written this heart-felt poem about how he feels being away from his dad.
Anxiety
What is this fee...
Month of the Military Child competition winners
Annually in April, Never Such Innocence holds a poetry and art competition for Month of the Military Child. The 2023 theme was 'Friends Near and Far...
Poems in print
A poetry writing initiative at MOD schools during lockdown has produced so much creative work, it has been turned into a poetry anthology by Defence C...
Success in song
A group of young singers have recorded Welcome Home, a song written by service children, for service children, with The Voice! finalist, Bethzienna Wil...
A military child
This heart-felt poem, by army child Tyler Larkin, topped the age 9-11 poetry category in the Never Such Innocence poetry, art, speech and song competi...
The son of a soldier
To commemorate April’s Month of the Military Child, we are sharing a poignant poem written by year 11 pupil, Jese Raratabu, from Wavell School, who wr...
The Paperchains Project
The idea for Paperchains came from author A.G. Smith, whose ground-breaking work in prisons has been highlighted by Channel 4’s Secret Millionaire and...
Writing from the heart
Army veteran and Never Such Innocence (NSI) Poet in Residence Clive Sanders writes poems on a daily basis and when he posts them on his Facebook page,...
A package arrives
Hywel Griffiths was working as an operational dog handler with Gwent Police, when he was told by a neurologist that he was suffering with Parkinson’s ...
Tears
A wonderful poem by army veteran and poet, Clive Sanders
She looked at herself in the mirror,
As she carefully came down the stairs,
For her hu...