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Article for ‘The Guardian’ - Can you help –

There is to be an article in the family section of ‘The Guardian’ on what it is like to be brought up in a forces family. The article talks to family members from all three services but still needs to understand the experiences of children growing up in a naval family.

They are particularly interested in speaking to boys, aged between 10-12 years, as they do not yet have enough information from this category.
The sorts of questions that will be asked are: In what ways do you keep in contact with the serving person while they are away? Are you close to other forces families? Do you go to a regular school or a forces school and what is it like?

The conversational interview will be done over the phone with parental consent. If you would like to take part please contact Jo Mears on: 013 0650 1830.

Hello everyone,

We are trying to gather some information on access to dentistry and would very much appreciate it if you could take a minute to answer the poll on the homepage of our website.

Thank you!

Hi everyone, just to let you know we are experiencing major problems with the distribution of the Spring issue of Homeport and therefore it has not yet gone out to anyone! If you would like to read a copy online, go to the Homepage of our website and click on 'Homeport Magazine' which will take you to the lastest edition. Don't forget to check out the Reader Offer pages as we have tickets for the Army v Navy Rugby Match, a mini-cruise to Bilbao, a Red Letter Day and a Hetty Hoover to name a few. Send your entries to me at editor@nff.org.uk, remember to clearly mark which offers you would like to be entered for.

Sarah NFF

Hi Theresa

I am also mum to a 19 year old son. He joined Raleigh 3 years ago next week. The going can get tough at times while they are at Raleigh but changes once they get through it. When Joe first joined I had visions of only seeing him once or twice a year and it certainly isn't like that at all. When not on deployment he is home every other weekend. He will be going away on a six month deployment in a couple of months and that will be strange.

If you join us on the Find a Friend message board there are plenty of us to keep you company and will try to answer any questions you may have.

Jacqui