Adapting to meet your needs

As an essential wheelchair user living in a quarter, AFF’s Health Specialist Karen Ross is well placed to help ensure that you’re supported when applying for additional needs and disability adaptations (ANDA) t...

It’s good to talk

During her current posting to Surrey, army spouse Antoinette Broomfield is training as a psychological wellbeing practitioner. She’s now involved in delivering talking therapies, signposted by the NHS, to suppo...

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 ...

Your voice matters

Military families’ maternity journey can be very different from that of their civilian counterparts, with all the extra considerations that come with service life. The Maternity Voices Partnership exists to lis...

From bump to beyond

Bridie Black Through her career as an NHS midwife and working with vulnerable women who have mental health conditions, army spouse Bridie Black feels passionate about offering support to military families dur...

No one alone

PANDAS Foundation offers free pre- and postnatal depression advice services, including peer-to-peer support by trained and experienced volunteers. Its aim is to ensure that no parent is alone from conception th...

The perinatal window

Nicola Flanagan is a military wife and mum to three young boys. She’s also an antenatal teacher, perinatal mental health and birth trauma therapist. During her last posting in Tidworth, she ran classes for ante...

Striking a balance

Juggling family life with service commitments is a difficult balance, and some new dads may need some extra support. Former soldier Adam Rockley tells us more about how you can seek help through DadPad… “I’m p...

Play streets coming this summer

Calling all service children! Look out for ‘play streets’ – coming to a garrison near you this summer. So that you can play safely outside, the road is closed for a couple of hours, creating a safe space for a...

SEND and receive

Accessing support for children with special educational needs and/or a disability can take time and effort. Army life may further complicate matters but help is available. Jill Misson reports… WHEN a posting i...