Join Alma Networking in Bristol for their networking get together on Tuesday 7th December. This will be a great opportunity for informal and relaxed networking with former and serving military.
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Join Alma Networking in Bristol for their networking get together on Tuesday 7th December. This will be a great opportunity for informal and relaxed networking with former and serving military.
Read moreThe ninth annual Forces Carp Classic has raised thousands of pounds for military charity Blesma, The Limbless Veterans and Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH).
The competition, which took place over a week in October at Abbey Lakes in France, was the best attended to date with around 100 anglers from serving military, veterans and the emergency services taking part.
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Read moreA staggering number of UK adults said they would be worried about being able to pay their rent, mortgage or bills if they lost their job this Christmas, according to figures published by The Poppy Factory today.
These stark figures show how vital employment is, especially during the festive period where pressures to spend money are increased. The survey also found that 80 per cent of people who celebrate Christmas wouldn’t be able to afford to buy friends and family Christmas presents if they lost their job.
Read moreThe Behavioural Insights Team (BIT) has been awarded £131,307 by the Forces in Mind Trust (FiMT), to assess whether empirical insights from social and behavioural sciences can help Service leavers’ families benefit more from services that support transition from the Armed Forces.
The need for this project came from work around families which FiMT has been developing over the last couple of years, when problems with engagement have been highlighted.
This year-long project is the first phase of what will be a two-phase project.
Read moreThe Forces in Mind Trust has awarded a grant of £70,000 to the Community Self Build Agency (CSBA) to enable them to continue with their work helping veterans who have particularly struggled with housing and employment in the transition to civilian life.
After an initial pilot in Bristol seven years ago, the reach of the project, which aims to help disadvantaged veterans build their own homes and achieve lasting employment, has expanded across the South West and beyond. CSBA works to increase confidence and skills, so that a veteran completing a self-build project leaves with a significantly improved lifestyle and feels a valued part of the community.
Read moreThe Forces in Mind Trust (FiMT) has held two briefing events, the first in York on Thursday 16th and the second in Nottingham on Friday 17th November, which were attended by over 80 people. Attendees came from a wide range of sectors including the Armed Forces Community and Armed Forces charities as well as other key stakeholders and interested parties who work to support ex-Service personnel and their families.
The events, which were the last in a series of regional briefings in the existing format, were led by Chief Executive of FiMT, Air Vice-Marshal Ray Lock CBE, and supported by his executive team.
Read moreThe Ministry of Defence has awarded Stoll a Silver Award in their Employer Recognition Scheme, for being employers who actively support the Armed Forces community in their workplace.
Stoll recently pledged its continued support to Servicemen and women by re-signing the Armed Forces Covenant and recently had the honour of hosting The Chief of Defence People, Lieutenant General Richard Nugee CVO CBE. The Covenant ensures fairness and equal opportunity for service and ex-service personnel, reservists and their families.
Read moreThe 4th Race of Remembrance was run by Mission Motorsport over Remembrance weekend at Anglesey Circuit, North Wales. 45 teams took part in the 12hr Endurance Race which included 13 WIS personnel racing, 25 spending the weekend as part of race teams and a further 30 attending to take part in Supercar Saturday where they got fast passenger laps in Ferrari, McLaren, Porsche, Audi and other sports cars.
Read moreIn a joint project between Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) and Mission Motorsport, WIS veterans Chris Read (LCpl RE), Chris Walker (Gdsm IG) and Daniel Elliott (Pte RW) created an extraordinary and striking Poppy design which they have wrapped on a very special Jaguar F Type SVR, rechristened The Poppy Car.
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