Negotiating job relocation

Relocating can be challenging, especially when it comes to maintaining your career. Successfully negotiating a job transfer or remote work arrangement can be possible with the right approach. CHECK YOUR ORGA...

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 and family members can contact the Armed Forces Criminal Legal...

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 years. Children aged between three and four years can alre...

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 the first time as an adult. And it brings with it the poten...

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 Northolt was a great chance for AFF’s Overseas Manager, Esther, to...

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 support for military partners and spouses. The project aims...

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 posting! Time in Kenya? Three fantastic years. How many oth...

Gambling support

Gambling support charity GamCare has launched a new gambling prevention and awareness programme to help reduce gambling harm in the armed forces. The training will help to address the stigma associated with ...

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 the market for an already isolated community. Think of the p...

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 her latest piece. It’s the third work of its kind for the ...