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...
Visa verification
AFF’s F&C team and the Home Office have worked together to resolve an issue which has been particularly affecting spouses of Gurkha soldiers who enlist on a 12-year contract.
Spouses who are applying to en...
Got chrimbo covered?
With the festive season – and inevitable increase in use of candles – approaching, it’s a good time for families in SFA and SSFA to consider taking out liability insurance.
This will protect you against unfore...
Sun sets on Cyprus stay
Following 17 years serving overseas in Germany and recently Cyprus, 1st Battalion, The Princess of Wales’s Royal Regiment (1 PWRR) has returned to the UK and is now resident in Royal Artillery Barracks Woolwich...
The great teddy rescue
Six-year-old army kid Theo Carter (pictured right in main photo), from Kingston upon Thames, is on a mission to provide toys for those children who may not get a present this year.
He’s launched Theo’s Teddy R...
Patch parties
Sometimes the best nights are the impromptu ones, where everyone brings their own food and nips across the road in their slippers to share supper in one quarter. With Christmas around the corner, culinary queen...
Fighting fit in the forces
A new quarterly newsletter, Fighting Fit, will share stories and other ideas, plus tips and advice from the armed forces community.
It’s being created by BFBS – and they’re asking you for your own experiences ...
Sunflower stories
The sunflower competition featured on page 32 of the winter edition of Army&You, stirred up some friendly but fierce rivalry across 14 locations in the European Joint Support Unit, bringing whole communitie...
The tall and short of it
To bring communities together and connect people when COVID restrictions were in force, the SHAPE team of Community Liaison Officers (CLOs) came up with a fun initiative to see who could grow the tallest sunflo...
Forces biz finder
Where can you find professional businesses that are run by military families, all in one place? findamilspo.co.uk is the new business search website from Milspo, and it’s now live!
Milspo, founded in 2018, is ...