Serve & Protect Credit Union - June Online Webinars and Smile & Save Podcast

Free financial webinars this June from Serve and Protect - don't miss out!

🛒 Managing the Cost of Living

✍️ Budgeting & Spending

🚀 Boost Your Credit Score

🔍 What Lenders Look For

🔗 Register: https://sandpcu.co.uk/webinars


Episode 3 of the Smile and Save Podcast is here, brought to you by Serve and Protect. Discover how you can benefit from joining the credit union 🎧

​🔗 Watch here: https://youtu.be/-h5LOH6Difg?si=irL1EnK5VMwziLKm

MilFest 2024, the Festival of Business for the UK Armed Forces Community - 27th June 2024

The Festival of Business for the UK Armed Forces Community. One day, one location, connecting the Armed Forces community with Forces Friendly companies.

Grosvenor House, London on 27th June 2024

MilFest’s programme of content – including keynote speakers, interactive panels, fireside chats and industry workshops – has been designed to further unlock the power of the Armed Forces community in business.

For full details, see:

https://exforcesinbusiness.co.uk/milfest/

If you represent a veteran-owned business or are a service leaver, veteran, military spouse or service family member currently seeking your next career move, you are entitled to a free ticket to MilFest. Complete the form at this link to apply for your Armed Forces Pass: https://exforcesinbusiness.co.uk/armed-forces-pass-milfest-2024/

The event is the same day as the 7th annual British Ex-Forces in Business Award but admissions are separate (an Awards ticket in the evening is not needed to register for the daytime conference).

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The Armed Forces Families Fund: Early Years programme is now accepting new applications!

The Armed Forces Covenant Fund Trust (The Trust) are offering grants of between £5,000 and £50,000 for projects that will help to enhance early childhood education and childcare settings to meet the specific needs of young children from Armed Forces families.

What is the Early Years Programme all about?

The Early Years programme is designed to help Armed Forces families access good quality early childhood education and childcare provision close to where they live or Serve.

The programme will address specific needs that early childhood educators have identified and will award projects that will contribute to one of three outcomes.

* Increased capacity at the setting to allow more Service children to attend.

* Providing better learning environments for Service children.

* Providing appropriate training and development of staff to support Service children.

Strengthening Parents Programme

The only eligibility criteria is that one or both parents/carers are serving or have served recently, are experiencing parental conflict and have children under 18 (or 25 if disabled). ​

Service Family Accommodation: UK-wide Townhall Events

Lifeworks

Easy Resettlement magazine

Subscribe for free to the Easy Resettlement Magazine: https://www.easyresettlement.com/ It provides insights in to various industries that you may consider as your next career path, as well as job vacancies, training providers, Colleges, Universities and Franchises that are keen to assist you through your resettlement process.

C is for Cadets

Training Opportunity -XForces

Overseas Survey - Thank You

An update on the Ministry of Defence's (MOD) overseas families survey, which took place last summer. 

• Thank you to the overseas personnel and families that took the time to complete the MOD's overseas families survey, which ran from July to August 2023.

• Your feedback is helping to shape Defence policy and processes to better meet the needs of you and your family. 

• An MOD report is due to be published this year outlining key survey findings and will be publicly available on Gov.uk. Further details will be shared in due course.

To find out more about Defence's 10-year plan to drive forward positive initiatives for Service families, read the Armed Forces Families Strategy 2022-2032.

If you have any questions, please contact: People-AFFS-FamiliesTeam@mod.gov.uk.

Civvy Street - May 2024 Edition

The latest edition of Civvy Street is available here​

UK Health Security Agency advice - be tick aware

Ticks can be active all year round, but they are most active in the months April to July, and sometimes later in the autumn.

Don't let ticks stop you from enjoying the outdoors but reduce the chance of acquiring a tick bite by:

1. Using a repellent that prevents ticks
2. Wearing long sleeves and long trousers to reduce direct skin exposure
3. Keep to clearly defined paths and avoid brushing against vegetation
4. Regularly check for ticks and brush off any you find immediately
5. When you’re back indoors, check for any ticks on you, your children and pets
6. If you find a tick, remove it as soon as possible with a removal device

Find out more, including what to do if you're bitten

Childcare Applications for parents with 9-month-olds now open

https://www.childcarechoices.gov.uk/

Tell us how Wraparound Childcare has impacted your family

How has Wraparound Childcare (WAC) impacted your family? If you are claiming, or have previously claimed WAC since it launched in September 2022, we want to hear from you.

Defence is evaluating the impact of the WAC scheme on serving families, since the scheme was launched.

Your responses will help inform future policy, tell us what impact it has had on your lives as Serving families and be used to determine the effectiveness of the scheme.

Cadets: Sign Up for Defence Discount Service Savings!

Are you a cadet over the age of 16? Sign up to Defence Discount Service and start saving!
Tell your friends too! 

Just follow these simple steps on our website or app to sign up:
. Click register on our home page
. Select 'Cadet Forces'
. Fill in your details, including the name of your cadet unit
. Hit register

Sign up and save today!

https://www.defencediscountservice.co.uk/

Veterans' Capital Housing Fund - Armed Forces Covenant Fund Trust

The Armed Forces Covenant Fund Trust are inviting applications for the Refurbishment Grants programme – could you be one of our next funded projects?

Part of the Veterans’ Capital Housing Fund, this programme awards grants of up to £75K towards projects that assist in the refurbishment or extension of accommodation for Veterans with a housing need.

Full details are available here https://covenantfund.org.uk/.../refurbishment-grants.../

Apply by 19 June 2024.

NHS Scotland Armed Forces Talent Programme

The Armed Forces Talent Programme (AFTP) is a national programme commissioned by the Office of the Chief Executive of NHS Scotland to support the entry of the Armed Forces Community (in its widest possible definition) to enter the health and social care workforce.

We work across all 22 health boards in Scotland and aim to increase the awareness of the employment opportunities within NHS Scotland and the pathways into them. Also to support our recruiting managers to better understand the knowledge, skills and experience the Armed Forces Community can bring to our workforce.​

If you have never thought of roles within NHS Scotland, why not join our Monthly Online Webinar; an informative overview to answer the “what” questions – Pay, locations, roles, training required, routes in etc.

​The next webinar is on Tuesday 4th June​​ at ​​14.30 you can ​register for this or other webinar's by scanning the QR code or here.

For more information visit the AFTP Webpage ​​

Veterans Gateway

Army Cadets Mental Health

 

Are you struggling with your #MentalHealth ? Do you need someone to talk to? Check out Kooth.


Kooth are a service that allows you to get help by both talking to someone and accessing advice.

Family Action - IT Support Analyst Job Opportunity

Family Action have a new role just in, which may be of interest to Service leavers or military partners.

UK Remote (Midlands Area) Job Opportunity with a national charity – IT Support Analyst – Full Time, Permanent, Remote with Midlands travel​.

Family Action say: "Our Family Action IT team is like a stealthy group of wizards who work in the background, ensuring all cogs turn so others can work their magic and help families and vulnerable people unhindered! If you're technically minded (ITIL), looking for a rewarding role at an established charity, click here to read more & apply!"

Serve & Protect Credit Union - May Online Webinars and Smile & Save Podcast

Free financial webinars this May from Serve and Protect - don't miss out!


🛒 Managing the Cost of Living

👤 Domestic Violence - The Financial Impact

✍️ Budgeting & Spending

🚀 Boost Your Credit Score

🔍 What Lenders Look For


🔗 Register: https://sandpcu.co.uk/webinars





Episode 2 of the Smile and Save Podcast is here, brought to you by Serve and Protect. Discover the importance of financial resilience in this short episode 🎧

🔗 Listen here: https://sandpcu.co.uk/m/smileandsavepod​

'Anxiety Unravelled' - a free course for military parents from Bounce Forward

 This programme is funded through the Armed Forces Covenant Fund Trust for military parents and carers.

Anxiety Unravelled will support you to understand you are not on your own - if you are in the midst of a growing cycle of worry and concern you would like to be able to unravel, this programme is for you!

We look forward to seeing you across three 1-hour sessions -

June 5th - Session 1: What is anxiety?

June 12th - Session 2: How we talk about anxiety

June 19th - Session 3: Helping my child deal with anxiety

Register for your FREE place HERE

Togetherall: Maternal Mental Health Month

 Maternal mental health can be hard to talk about.

“The biggest takeaway I would want new moms to think about in terms of their mental health is that there is power and comfort in connecting with others. It’s okay to reach out for support even if you are nervous about opening up.” Togetherall Senior Clinician.

If you need support or more information, here are a few resources that could help. You can also join the @Togetherall community today, FREE to anyone in the UK Military, Veterans & Family members aged 16+ at togetherall.com​, talk to others who understand.

FREE to anyone in the UK Military, Veterans & Family members aged 16+

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