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| SSAFA Forces Help is looking for volunteers to help out on their holidays for children with special needs and disabilities - in order to make the holidays as successful as ever, 60 volunteers are required. If you are interested, or have a child with Special Needs who would like to go on a SSAFA holiday, please click here for more information.
Are you interested in a post with SSAFA? They are looking for a Volunteer Development Manager in Scotland to support and develop SSAFA Forces Help’s In-Service Volunteers. The post is part time (22.5 hours/3 days) with a salary of £12,500 pa. Please click here for more information Be sure not to miss the BBC1 series ‘SHIPMATES’ which started on Tuesday 22nd Nov. The series is a contemporary look at the Royal Navy showing life at sea and ashore in Devonport as seen by producer Chris Terrill (HMS BRILLIANT series). It largely features HMS CHATHAM, her 2004/5 deployment to the Gulf and her involvement in post-Tsunami relief operations in January this year. Click here for full details. Do you have a valid TV Licence? Have you just moved to the Portsmouth area? During this busy time you may not have thought about amending your TV licence. Click here to find out more. The SSAFA Forces Help Thrift Shop, next door to the Royal Navy's Crownhill Family Centre in Plymouth, is due to close before Christmas after its buildings were condemned after 25 years of trading, unless volunteers to run it can be found. If you are able to help please click here for full story The Winter 2005 edition of Homeport is now available in ships and establishments for collection by Service personnel to take home to their families. Free copies are also available from the NFF office. Go to the Homeport page to download your own pdf copy now (1.3mgb) Don't miss your vote! For up-to-date voting information for members of Her Majesty’s Armed Forces and their families please see the attached leaflet “Register to Vote”.Why not visit the Electoral Commission website too for more information on voting at http://www.electoralcommission.org.uk/media-centre/statements.cfm A guide has been compiled by DNLM, the Directorate of Naval Life Management, specifically for the families of those serving in the Royal Naval Reserve and Royal Marines Reserve in order to give them a general idea of what life in the Service involves, whether mobilised or undergoing training. Click here to download a pdf copy (308kb) NCH (The National Children’s Charity) have launched a new website and published results of their recent survey into mobile phone bullying. Click here http://www.nch.org.uk/information/index.php?i=237 to view the website and read the results of the survey. A useful website for children to read about bullying can also be found at http://www.stoptextbully.com Post to the Gulf Area The free postal packet service to the Iraq theatre of operations has now ceased. Those wishing to send packets weighing up to 2kg in weight can do so at the concessionary rate of £7.23 (equivalent to the UK Inland First Class Postage Rate). Free letter services ('blueys' and 'e-blueys') are unaffected. The Services Families Task Force site is now officially up and running at www.sftf.mod.uk The sftf site has been designed to provide information and links on topics that Service Families themselves have said are important. Could you work with the NFF Team? As resources become available we will look to build up the NFF team, both in the Portsmouth and Plymouth areas and further afield. If you feel you have skills that may be of interest to us in the future, then please submit a CV for our records and we will be in contact as and when a vacancy arises. CVs admin@nff.org.uk
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