BOOK CLUB – A SUMMER SIZZLER

In this edition’s Army&You and Reading Force Book Club, our forces youngsters share their views on The Great Godden by Meg Rosoff... RIO GREGORY (16) The book was a little slow to start but when the pace ...

Midwives join Wave of Light

The loss of a baby during pregnancy or in infancy is a devastating experience, so the midwives of SSAFA’s Community Health Care Team in Cyprus are joining families to remember these children during Baby Loss Aw...

Flying the flag for youth in Scotland

Forces children and young people are co-producing a new mental health and wellbeing service in Scotland with Forces Children Scotland. Your Mind Matters will aim to better understand and respond to the challen...

Painting pride

Artwork created by children from Hornbill School in Brunei has been on display at The National Gallery’s recent Take One Picture exhibition in London. Every year the gallery selects an artwork to give focus to...

Space to listen

A mental health pilot service has been launched to support armed forces children, young people and families in Scotland. Forces Children Scotland (previously the Royal Caledonian Education Trust) has launched ...

A postcard from Münster

Laura, Ashley, Elliot (8) and Sophie (6) on life in Germany How long have you been an army family? Nine years. Time in Münster? Two years at HQ 1 (German/Netherlands) Corps – we live in Nordwalde about 20km...

#OurArmyFamily – the Bowen family

Meet the Bowen family: Freya (21) and her brother Alex (15), parents Christopher (serving) and Katie and their greyhound collie cross, Misty. Here, Freya shares her story… My parents have been an army family f...

Singer tunes in to choirs

Mezzo-soprano Laura Wright has joined the Military Wives Choirs as their first female ambassador. Laura won the 2005 BBC Young Chorister of the Year aged just 15. Since then, she has gone on to write and recor...

Cross at constant rule changing

A blog from Army&You’s autumn edition by Nathaniel My dad is in the army, and for the past four years I have been a boarder at my school while we have lived overseas. Over the last year I’ve felt unsure...

Fitness fuel

Exercise is great for getting that happy hit to lift your mood. Culinary queen AJ Sharp investigates the best foods to eat post-workout… Some of my favourite patch moments involve all the other halves getting ...