The OA employment team will be helping Service leavers learn about their career options.
Esme Dickson, OA Employment Services and Events Coordinator, will be there to show how the OA can support your transition journey. Esme delivers OA events in the region and is responsible for the OA network contact list.
Clive Lowe, OA Career Consultant, will be on hand to answer your employment questions.
Read moreNick Hartley, a former RAF Group Captain now working in business development for BT Security, explains why cyber security is a good industry for veterans.
Cyber security is a broad and diverse industry, with different opportunities. Many of the skills and experiences veterans have are highly sought after in the industry.
Working in cyber security for the commercial sector is more independent and less hierarchical, compared to the Armed Forces.
Read moreThis webinar will be looking at the diverse opportunities in the London Insurance Market open to service leavers, often with help from the Lloyds Military Network.
We will be joined by Ben Howell (PPL Technical and Change Project Manager), who will give an introduction into Commercial Insurance, the Lloyds Market and provide first-hand insight into the Lloyds Military Network.
Read moreStoll’s Chief Executive, Ed Tytherleigh, continues preparing for the London Marathon and we hear an update on how his training is going.
Last month I declared my intention to run the London Marathon on Sunday April 22nd. The attempt is very much on and training is in full swing!
Stoll opens a new housing scheme in Aldershot in May this year and I am running to try and raise £10,000 to support the development.
Read moreFollow this link for all the latest news from the RAF Families Federation.
Read moreThe oldest resident at Salford’s Broughton House care home for ex-servicemen and women has celebrated his 99th birthday.
Friends, present and former staff and supporters of Broughton House attended a party for Oswald Dixon, whose cake was decorated with an RAF flag, badges and model aeroplanes.
Oswald came from Jamaica to join the RAF as an engineer during the Second World War. He remained in the service until he retired, teaching new recruits.
Read moreThe Grand Rehearsal, a new mini-musical by Jorgen and Libbet Booth, was performed over three days at Emmanuel United Reformed Church, Worthing and raised an amazing £2,800 for charity.
The story was of the predicament of a village choir whose numbers had reduced to just two singers, and the twist in the tale was that within five minutes of the show starting, the audience became aware that they were the new choir members and they would be the ones singing! And that they did, singing along to tunes like Bring Me Sunshine, Edelweiss and Land of Hope & Glory, to name but a few.
Read moreThe Do it for Charity Superhero Run is your chance to become a real-life superhero as you pull on your cape and join thousands of fellow runners as they descend on Regent’s Park, London, in a bid to make the UK a more charitable place to live!
To take part you just need to pay a £25 registration fee and raise £100 for your favourite cause!
Read moreThe Sloop Inn, Sloop Lane, Scaynes Hill RH17 7NP is hosting a fundraising Beer and Blues Festival in aid of “Building Heroes”, a military charity in West Sussex providing a unique programme enabling military veterans to achieve a rapid transition into employment in construction.
The Beer & Blues Festival is being held on Sunday 6 May 2018(day before May day Bank Holiday Monday) from 2.00pm until 10pm.
Read moreMilitary veteran Matt Bale, 28, from Fraddon, Cornwall is taking on the London Marathon in aid of Blesma to say thanks for the support they gave his friend who lost both his legs.
Whilst going through basic training to join the Royal Engineers in 2008, Matt met James Wilson and the pair built up a strong friendship. In 2011, Sappers Matt and James were deployed to Afghanistan and their paths separated when James took up a role as a lead searcher for IEDs and Matt took up a role in construction. Not long into the tour, James unfortunately stepped on an Improvised Explosive Device and lost both his legs.
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