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Military Enterprise

We are often asked if we will publicise enterprising ideas/schemes created by Service personnel and immediate family members.

In this space we are happy to promote these items. We cannot endorse them but will leave you to decide whether to pursue them or not.

 

Books

My Daddy's Going Away - but that's okay

by Major Christopher MacGregor

     "Daddies often have to go away from home and leave their family and children behind.  Whether a soldier, sailor, airman - all Dads have to go away sometimes and temporary separation affects the whole family.   Whatever he does, and no matter why Dad has to leave home, it is hard on all the family.  If Dad's departure is understood, his absence is more likely to be accepted and this will reduce anxiety.  The book and the website will hopefully help you and your children talk through the stressors of paternal separation and find ways to lessen the anxiety that is often felt across the family."

My Mummy is a Soldier

My Daddy is a Soldier

by Gerry Walters

     "Brought up in an Army family, I married a soldier, as did my daughter. I accepted the deployments of first my father and then my husband. But when my granddaughter, Shay, started to ask questions about where her daddy was during his tour in Afghanistan, I started to ask myself if I could do anything to help young children deal with the separation that is an inevitable part of life within a military family."

 

Demons in the Dark

by Tom Atkins a current member of 8 Sqn at Waddington

     "While the stories recounted in crew rooms today are many and varied, the stories I heard from the old boys who flew the heavy bombers really put us modern day flyers back in our box. I wanted a way to recount these stories so that they would not be forgotten.."

 

Gifts

The Little Green Gift Shop

Run by Josie Larkman and Caroline Dixon two wives at Kinloss

     "Wives and partners of military personnel have to be enterprising. You have to leave your home, friends and work at fairly short notice, sometimes every two or three years, depending on your husband's job. Then you have to start all over again.  This is our way of coping with that..." 

Signature Silver

A new jewellery business set up by sisters whose father and uncle serve in the RAF. The items are handcrafted from silver with the unique idea of using fingerprints to create a piece of treasure. 

     “By pledging £1 from every sale to Help for Heroes, we can do our bit. We also offer a 5% discount on all products to forces families.

 

Parcels for those OOA

Forces Store

Run by Forces Families for Forces Families

     "The site is owned, run, and supplied by wives and friends of the British Forces. Our friends and family are also deployed so we know how important contact with a loved one can be."

Mail Call

Run my four servicemen

     "The Mail Call team have each spent some of their military careers sitting in a wadi, that jungle clearing, that desert or that muddy trench, sucking the life out of a tin-foil bad trying to extract the last juices from Menu D and attempting to re-solidify a chocolate bar whilst mustering up all the saliva on earth to swallow biscuit AB Mk1. We know the joys a food parcel stuffed with calories can bring.."

 

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