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Combat Stress: PTSD Awareness Day Webinars 22–26 June

 

For PTSD Awareness Day 2026, Combat Stress are offering a series of free webinars designed to increase understanding of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), its impact and that support is available to help with recovery.

PTSD can affect how someone thinks, feels, and reacts and it can look very different from person to person.

Between 22–26 June, these specialist webinars will explore topics including recovery, the difference between PTSD and complex PTSD, practical coping strategies, how data is improving treatment, and how organisations can support recovery.

These sessions are open to all members of the public, including veterans, families, carers and professionals, offering insight into the many faces of PTSD and the support available.

Learn more about the webinars and how they can support understanding of PTSD: https://combatstress.org.uk/ptsd-awareness-day-webinars

If you’d like to talk to someone, the Combat Stress free, confidential 24-hour Helpline is available on 0800 138 1619.

Serve & Protect Credit Union: Upcoming June Webinars

 

Green Living: Simple Eco-Friendly Tips to Lower Your Bills

Date: Wednesday 3rd June

Time: 12:00-12:45

What to Expect: Tips for living a greener life to save money and protect the planet!

Saving Made Simple: Practical Tips to Boost Your Savings

Date: Wednesday 17th June

Time: 12:00-12:45

What to Expect: Explore 10 practical savings methods that anyone can apply to build a healthy savings cushion.

Budgeting 101: Take Control of Your Money

Date: Thursday 18th June

Time: 12:00-12:45

What to Expect: Create a budget that meets your short and long-term financial goals, plus tips to cut your spending.

Financial Resilience: Ready When it Matters

Date: Friday 19th June

Time: 12:00-13:00

What to Expect: Understand why financial resilience matters and hear some simple, practical tips to help you improve it.

Credit Score 101: Tips to Boost Your Score

Date: Thursday 25th June

Time: 12:00-12:45

What to Expect: Understand the importance of looking after your credit score, plus actionable tips to improve yours.

Borrow Smarter: Tips to Strengthen Your Loan Application

Date: Friday 26th June

Time: 12:00-12:45

What to Expect: Understand what happens throughout the journey of a loan application, some of the key factors lenders evaluate, and what to do before you apply.

Register for free here: https://sandpcu.co.uk/hs-webinars

 

Episkopi: HIVE Closure

The HIVE Office will be closed from May 25th to May 29th 2026 due to staff being on leave. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause.

HISO Jo Ratubuli here.Signing off from my final shift here at Episkopi HIVE, and leaving you in the capable hands of my colleague and your incoming Epi HISO, Katie.

In the meantime, you can email us on BFC-Comms-HIVE-GpMailbox@mod.gov.uk.

Pinnacle Update

HomeHub reaches 2,000 families
HomeHub – the new online platform designed to support Service families in reporting and tracking housing repairs – has now reached over 2,000 registrations.
To register for HomeHub, families will first need to register for a One Login account. They can do this on the Government’s One Login Website. Every member of the household will need to register for a One Login account and HomeHub account using their own personal details.

For further information visit www.pinnacleservicefamilies.co.uk/homehub
*Please note that the HomeHub is unavailable 20–26 May while Pinnacle carry out updates. During this time, you can still report or track logged repairs via Pinnacle
Tel : 0800 031 8628
Contact Us - Pinnacle Service Families

Armed Forces Week 2026: Share your messages of support!

Share your messages of support for our Armed Forces! This Armed Forces Week, we're looking for messages of thanks from friends and family of our Armed Forces. Email your message to MODComms-DDC@mod.gov.uk

Army HQ: Family Welfare Matters Edition 03 now available

To read online with accessible links, please go to Family Welfare Matters

For those with access to MODnet, both this edition and the full internal Welfare Matters newsletter is uploaded onto our SharePoint site under the Welfare Latest News section. The link to access is: Welfare

Little Troopers Family Reconnection Weekend July 2026

Family Reconnection Weekend – July 2026 Applications are now open!

We’re heading to Cuffley Activity Centre in Hertfordshire for a woodland weekend full of activities, connection and time together as a military family. Families will also have the chance to connect with others from the military community who truly understand military life.
Register your interest now, open to families with children in Year 4 and above.

We can’t wait to welcome lots of you to our second Family Reconnection Weekend of 2026!

Applications https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/XH8RVPF...

Service Cotswold Centre

The Services Cotswold Centre (SCC) is a tri-Service facility, managed by Headquarters Army Welfare Service (AWS) and funded by Headquarters Regional Command on behalf of the MOD.

It provides short-term transit accommodation for Service Personnel (SP), family members and MOD civil servants. The key role of SCC is to accommodate varying numbers of vulnerable Service families, often with diverse and complex welfare needs.

The SCC accommodation consists of 60 self-contained chalet style homes and a 37 bed residential unit and is located in Neston, near Corsham Wiltshire.

The SCC is used for:Emergency accommodation for military families, spouses and civil partners who have been evacuated from assignments
Meeting a welfare need such as supporting injured personnel, their carers and/or immediate family members
Responding to family disruption such as marital breakdown
Provision of accommodation between assignments – both before taking up a post or repatriation back to the UK
Accommodation for discharging married personnel
Short Breaks
Contact Housing
Transit accommodation – both duty and welfare

The centre has recently changed its telephone number to TEL: 0331 1432730
FIND OUT MORE: Services Cotswold Centre - GOV.UK
EMAIL: RC-AWS-SCC-Bookings@mod.gov.uk