A sticker for Service personnel

COMMUNITIES across the UK are being urged to support our Armed Forces in the Heroes Welcome scheme. Businesses are encouraged to display a special logo that indicates a warm and special welcome. They migh...

AFF investigates soldiers’ working hours

AFF needs to know what sort of hours your soldier is working. We're trying to find out if redundancy, restructuring the Army and rebasing from Germany are affecting time spent with family and your quality of li...

Online communities

FOR Army families, Facebook was a revolution. We move about so often that it used to be impossible to keep in touch with everyone and there was nowhere to find out what your new patch was like. Nowadays, wit...

The future’s bright

THE Future Horizons Programme (FHP), a pilot project designed to support   Early Service Leavers (ESLs), is celebrating an incredible 99 per cent take-up in its first year. ESLs are those Servicemen and wome...

Saucy offering

NEXT time you add a dollop of sauce to your sausages, send for Brigadier Brown or Corporal Ketchup! Featuring an iconic soldier-shaped recyclable bottle, Forces Sauces have been launched to raise money for L...

Put the kettle on

SSAFA’s most loved fundraising event, the Big Brew Up takes place from 7-13 October. Now in its 16th year, SSAFA’s biggest annual fundraiser sees people get together with family, friends and colleagues for a...

Hive of activity

BRITISH Army HIVEs, except for Northern Ireland, are now running blogs to extend their information coverage as far as possible. The aim is to capture local information and many have links to regimental Faceb...

Mental health support on the move

A BRAND new app offering information and support on mental health disorders is now available to Service personnel around the world. Joining Forces, which can be downloaded for free, boasts innovative functio...

We mean business!

If you are a woman either thinking of starting or already running a business in Wiltshire, make sure you book your place at the Women in Business event in Ludgershall – it’s not just a coffee morning… we mean b...

Look to the future

We have become used to change in the last five years. Next on the ‘to-do’ list is a thorough examination of the ‘terms and conditions of service’ for personnel. The New Employment Model (NEM), as this project h...