Families

Home-Start helps Armed Forces families with young children particularly at times of heightened anxieties. These might include key transition points of rebasing, deployment and transition. Volunteers support families who are facing a range of challenges including isolation, as they move away from their existing support networks of families and friends. Some local Home-Starts offer groups where parents and children can meet together. This support is for parents where one or both are serving in the Royal Navy or Royal Marines.

In partnership with RNRMC, Marriage Care are seeking to relieve the relationship distress that presents challenges to the wellbeing of RNRM personnel and their families. Our hope is that opportunities to discuss the unique pressures on relationships presented by Naval service, to explore how, when and why relationships can come under stress, and what can help, will improve and strengthen couple relationships, and, where relevant, the families who depend upon them. We hope that this preventative opportunity may reduce the need for counselling.

The Naval Children’s Charity (NCC) are dedicated to improving the wellbeing and development of Naval children and young people.  They provide a wealth of support, guidance and resources to help dependant children (up to and including the age of 25) whose parents/guardians serve or have served in the Royal Navy and who are in need, hardship or distress.  With a team of caseworkers in Portsmouth, Helensburgh and Plymouth, they offer financial assistance, free resources and a range of opportunities to address the challenges that the children and young people face as a result of