Dealing with separation is part and parcel of Naval Service life.
Be it weekending, exercises or deployment, it impacts on our families’ wellbeing and family life.
Several years ago the NFF set up a book resource project that aimed to provide reading books to their beneficiaries to support resilience and enhance coping strategies.
The new project will adapt the current extensive book list, which includes a wide range of topics for all ages.
The books can help to explain deployments and separations to youngsters, address anxiety and mind management to combat the challenges Service life may bring, provide support at times of loss and bereavement, and much more.
The project, which is launched today, 1st February 2022, will provide Service personnel and their loved ones one book per family member.
In recognition that Naval Service children experience the most parental absence of all three Armed Forces, we have extended the eligibility to schools with at least one Naval Service pupil enrolled.
Limited to 10 books per school, staff are welcome to put these in their library or use them in any particular work they do with Service children.
