RAFCOM can provide RAF personnel, veterans and family members with access to FREE email accounts, forums and chat rooms, which you can use to discuss issues, ask questions, post photographs and newsletters or create polls. more...

Members of the Armed Forces looking to buy their own home could benefit from a new scheme launched by the MOD. more...

Construction work on a pioneering training and housing centre for vulnerable veterans of Iraq, Afghanistan and other conflicts has been launched. more...

A new package of measures has been announced to support Service personnel who are seriously injured whilst on active service. more...

Holidays for Heroes Jersey is a charity whose aim is to provide a week's holiday on Jersey to any past or present member of H M Forces injured, in mind or body, whilst on active duty. The dates of their 2010 holidays are here and an application form is here.

RAF Personnel who are absent without leave (AWOL) can now speak in complete confidence to the SSAFA AWOL Support Line Worker Tel: 01380 738137 9.00 - 10.00am Monday to Friday (answering machine for call back outside these times)

The RAF Widows' Association has launched its own website (www.rafwidowsassociation.org.uk). The site provides information, contacts and an on-line forum for members to share their thoughts.

STUBS, a new charity offers FREE tickets for Service Personnel, their families and Veterans, to watch WASPS play rugby at Adams Park, High Wycombe. Just go on to their website and register for this excellent offer. more...

Skill Force offers a unique internship scheme to help injured and long-term sick Service personnel on the road to recovery. more...

In partnership with the MOD, SSAFA has set up a new Operational Welfare Fund dedicated to providing support to the front line. more...

SCE have produced an excellent new booklet which offers excellent advice to families on all aspects affecting the family during a deployment. more...

The regulations on the Childcare Voucher Scheme have recently changed in relation to Boarding School fees. You can now claim for the element of boarding school that is not included in compulsory education, such as out of hours clubs, provided that the school separates the elements of the bill. Full details of the scheme can be found at www.modchildcare.co.uk.