School support during separation

Families approach AFF regularly to ask for support for their child when the serving parent goes away. The absence of a parent can cause many different feelings and emotions for children, with many parents tel...

Reading Force adult book clubs

As regular Army&You readers will know, Reading Force Book Clubs are a fantastic way to have fun, but did you know that the charity runs adult groups too? You might be a bookworm, a first-time book clubbe...
Soldier and student reading together

Soldiers go back to school

Soldiers from local units are on a mission to support young readers and inspire them to become avid book lovers at The Wellington Academy in Tidworth, Wiltshire. They visit the school once a week to listen to ...

Show your creative side

Reading Force, which encourages military families to share books together, is asking families to put pen to paper and write their own stories as part of a competition. Members of military families of all ages ...

Book Club: Food for thought

In this edition’s Army&You and Reading Force Book Club, our forces youngsters share their views on When Cucumber Lost His Cool by Michelle Robinson and Tom Knight. ARCHIE LINFORD (5) Archie says: “The boo...

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 ...

Warm reception

In the summer edition’s Army&You and Reading Force Book Club, our forces youngsters share their views on The Weather Weaver by Tamsin Mori... James Wright (9) I didn’t want to put it down. Stella finds an...

Revealing resource

Charity Little Troopers has launched a new downloadable resource to help your children make sense of their emotions during challenging life events such as deployments, moving home or starting a new school. The...

Calling all book worms…

Last year’s online Summer Reading Quest – which was devised to bring 8- to 17-year-olds together through fun challenges linked to books, poetry and comics – proved a huge success. The initiative was set up by S...