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29 August 2017

Blind Veterans UK

Disability Support, fundraising, Regional, Support, volunteers

Veteran from the Isle of Man to compete in Royal Parks Foundation Half Marathon for military charity

A veteran from the Isle of Man is training to compete in the Royal Parks Foundation Half Marathon for Blind Veterans UK, the national charity for vision-impaired ex-Service men and women.

John de Weert, 53 and originally from the Walthamstow, decided to sign up to the 13.1-mile challenge after reconnecting with old Army friends. He says: “It was largely down to Facebook really. Some friends I used to serve with got in touch and told me they’d be doing it. They wanted to know whether I’d be interested and so, after reading about the support the charity provides to veterans suffering vision-impairment, I got myself signed up.

25 August 2017

Officers' Association

Courses, Employment, Interviews, Officers

How to Have a Successful Telephone Interview

Telephone and video interviews often form part of the interview process, so here are our top tips.

Purpose
The aim of telephone and video interviews is to reduce the number of applicants to a shortlist. The interviewer wants to know if you can support the claims you made on your CV. If it goes well, you will usually be invited for a face-to-face interview.

25 August 2017

Officers' Association

Employment, Officers, Webinar

Mind Flipping: How to Identify Your Skills to Get the Job You Want

Understanding an employer’s needs is crucial for securing your new career.

Zena Everett, an Executive Coach and author of Mind Flip, ran a webinar with Clive Lowe, an OA Career Consultant, on identifying and promoting your skills using the Mind Flipping technique.

25 August 2017

Officers' Association

Courses, Employment, Officers, Training

7th September 2017: North West Careers Access Fair – Manchester

Are you looking to settle in the North West and want to understand the employment opportunities in the region? Are you based in the North West and want to explore different options for your second career? This is the event for you.

Transport for Greater Manchester will be hosting the first Careers Access Fair for the North West at their head quarters in Manchester. Employers based within the region have been invited to attend and demonstrate career paths that are a good fit for Service leavers.

25 August 2017

Officers' Association

Courses, Employment, Officer, Training, Veterans, Welfare

11th September 2017: Carillion Vocational CV Workshop, Construction – Nottinghamshire

This event aims to inform Service Leavers of the best ways to tailor their CV in order to gain interviews for executive and management roles in the construction industry. The workshop will look at the importance of highlighting key skills, attributes and qualifications that will lead to employment within this industry.

The MD of Carillion Construction Services will open the event and presentations from two Operations Directors from the Building and Infrastructure divisions will follow. These presentations will cover some of the key things they look for in candidates.

24 August 2017

Royal Air Force Families Federation

Children, Families, RAF, Royal Air Force, Transition, Welfare

RAF Families Federation – Weekly Newsletter

Follow this link to all the latest news from the RAF Families Federation.

24 August 2017

Troop Aid

Army, Events, fundraising, Welfare

Royal Artillery Band marching in for Troop Aid

The Chairman and Trustees of the Solihull based charity Troop Aid are delighted to announce that the Royal Artillery Band will be making a special guest appearance at the 2017 Ball.

Tickets are now on sale at £60 each for what promises to be another spectacular occasion on Saturday 7 October 2017.

This year’s venue will be the National Conference Centre, home of the National Motorcycle Museum, Coventry Road, Bickenhill, Solihull, West Midlands, B92 0EJ.

24 August 2017

Bravehound

Awards, Funding, Grants, Scotland, Veterans, Welfare

Bravehound wins ‘Best Charity’ in the National Lottery Awards

Many congratulations to Glen Art’s Bravehound Project which has won “Best Charity” in the National Lottery Awards.

The project won the public vote from 1300 nominations. There is a £5,000 award and the awards event will be broadcast on September 27th.

24 August 2017

Veterans Aid

Education, Mental Health, Research, Veterans, Welfare

New academic role for Veterans Aid CEO

CEO of Veterans Aid Dr Hugh Milroy has been appointed Visiting Senior Lecturer in the Department of Psychological Medicine at King’s College London’s Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience (IoPPN).

He said, “I am proud and delighted to have what has been a long ‘informal’ relationship with King’s formalised in this way. Students are our future and I hope that by working with them we can open minds and challenge some of the orthodox thinking about veterans that leads to so much harmful stereotyping.”

24 August 2017

Army Families Federation (AFF), Forces in Mind Trust

Army, Children, Event, Families, Research

New Forces in Mind Trust Award: Army Families Federation research symposium

A grant of £3,000 has been awarded to the Army Families Federation (AFF) by the Forces in Mind Trust, to hold a research symposium in partnership with King’s Centre for Military Research this November, at the Victory Services Club, London.

Following the success of the event in 2015, AFF had planned to hold a second symposium in June this year. However, due to the terrorist attack that took place around London Bridge the weekend before the symposium, the event was postponed. Without additional funding, it would not have been possible to re-schedule the symposium for the foreseeable future.

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