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31 January 2017

Ministry of Defence

Army, Career, Children, Courses, Education, Employment, Families, Resettlement, Serving, Training, Transition

Tidworth Job Fair 2017 – Wednesday 15 March 2017

Headquarters South West will be running a Job Fair in Tidworth Garrison Theatre on Wednesday 15 March 2017. At the event will be over 60 regional and national employers, as well as recruitment agencies who are specifically looking to recruit Service Leavers, Veterans and Spouses. A wide variety of industry sectors will be represented, including (but not exclusively): health, care, construction, transport, communications, tourism & leisure, manufacturing, bio sciences & pharmaceutical, finance and defence.

31 January 2017

Combat Stress

Health, Mental Health, Transition, Veterans, Welfare

Scottish veterans at greater risk of deprivation than those in rest of UK

Combat Stress has found that ex-servicemen and women receiving help from the charity in Scotland face higher levels of deprivation than those living in the rest of the UK.

Multiple deprivation in help-seeking UK veterans is a new research paper published on Tuesday 31 January by the leading mental health charity for veterans. It is the first study of its kind in the UK to explore experiences of deprivation in veterans with mental health issues.

31 January 2017

BLESMA

Disability Support, Events, Fund-raising, fundraising, Health, Sport, Transition, Veterans

Blesma monthly highlights

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31 January 2017

Soldiering On Awards

Army, Events, Media, Navy, RAF, Remembrance, Royal Air Force, Royal Marines, Royal Navy, Serving, Transition, Veterans

Soldiering On Awards announces House of Lords event for 2017 finalists

The Soldiering On Awards will honour the 2017 finalists at the House of Lords on Thursday 9th February. Hosted by General the Lord Dannatt GCB CBE MC DL with the charity’s patron, the Rt Hon Earl Howe PC, in attendance, the evening celebrates the achievements of all of those who have been chosen as finalists by the Award’s Independent Judges Panel. It is with delight the charity welcomes new Cobseo Chairman, General Sir John McColl KCB CBE DSO, to his first Soldiering On Awards event.

31 January 2017

Blind Veterans UK

Disability Support, fundraising, Health, Support, Veterans, Welfare

Blind veteran from Staffordshire receives medal for helping liberate France from the Nazis

A Second World War blind veteran from Staffordshire has been awarded the Chevalier de l’Ordre National de la Legion d’Honneur for his part in the liberation of France.

Rowland Edwards, 93 and from Stafford, will be formally presented with the prestigious honour by Monsieur Jean-Claude Lafontaine from the French Consulate in a special ceremony at the National Arboretum in Alrewas, Staffordshire. The ceremony, which was organised by military charity Blind Veterans UK, will be attended by Rowland’s family as well as representatives from the charity.

31 January 2017

Army Families Federation (AFF)

Children, Courses, Education, Employment, Families, Health, Mental Health, Serving, Transition

AFF to host symposium in partnership with the King’s Centre for Military Health Research

Following the success of their first symposium in 2015, The Army Families Federation (AFF) will once again host a Research Symposium to discuss the issues Army families face and share findings and research with others also working in this field of work.

This event will take place on Monday 5 June at the Guy’s Campus, King’s College London.

27 January 2017

Officers' Association

Courses, Employment, Events, Transition

15th March 2017: The Officers’ Association to Support Tidworth Transition Fair

Headquarters South West will be running a Job Fair in Tidworth Garrison Theatre on Wednesday 15 March 2017. At the event will be over 45 regional and national employers, as well as recruitment agencies who are specifically looking to recruit Service Leavers, Veterans and Spouses.

27 January 2017

Army Benevolent Fund

Army, Children, Families, Grants, Transition, Veterans, Welfare

National Gulf Veterans & Families Association receives £51,995 grant from ABF The Soldiers’ Charity

A grant from The Soldiers’ Charity to the NGVFA, whose offices are based in Hull, will help veterans of recent desert conflicts, their families, partners and carers to improve their day-to-day lives by providing the services and support networks they so desperately need.

27 January 2017

Army Benevolent Fund

Army, Event, Expedition, fundraising, History, Sport

SPEAR17 complete their epic 1,100 mile expedition of Antarctica

A team of five Army Reservists have reached the end of their 1,100-mile crossing of Antarctica, after 67 days on ice, making them the first British Army team in history to do so.

27 January 2017

Army Benevolent Fund

Army, Children, Education, Events, Navy, RAF, Remembrance, Royal Air Forces, Royal Navy

Coombeshead Academy pupil wins national competition for Red, White & Blue Day

Evie Manning’s WW1 inspired postcard takes top prize for Charity competition

A pupil from Coombeshead Academy in Newton Abbot, Evie Manning aged 12, has won a national competition to design World War One inspired conscription postcards imaging what life would be like for soldiers in the war.

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