Welfare Services for Bergen-Hohne Garrison
Bergen-Hohne Garrison offers excellent welfare support to its residents through a variety of agencies. Each Regiment within 7th Armoured Brigade has a dedicated welfare team plus there are a range of agencies working to bring dedicated welfare support services to soldiers, their families and civilian staff. Some of these agencies are listed below.
Army Welfare Service (AWS)
What services and support does the AWS offer?
Personal support
This is a confidential welfare service available for single soldiers, married soldiers and their families plus UKBC and their families. Whatever difficulties you are experiencing, professionally trained Welfare Workers are available to help you with issues such as:
* Relationship Difficulties
* Special Needs for Adults and Children
* Financial Difficulties
* Depression, Stress and Loneliness
* Domestic Violence
* Bereavement
* Liaison with Other Agencies
* Post Operational Matters
* Single Soldier Matters
Community support
This provides services to all members of the community. Professionally qualified workers lead teams of staff to provide the following:
* Youth Centres in each Station
* Young Achiever Awards
* Duke of Edinburgh Award Scheme
* Sports Leaders Awards
* Summer and Winter Activity Programmes
* Registered Child Minders
* Registered Daycare Settings for 6 weeks to 4 years
How do I get in touch?
For more information or to ask for a local appointment in your Station telephone:
Civil: +49 (0) 5051 962890
Office Hours in Hohne Roundhouse: 9:00 to 16:00 Monday to Thursday and 9:00 to 14:00 on Friday
Or visit the Army Welfare Service website
Army Families Federation (AFF)
What services and support does the AFF offer?
The Army Families Federation is the independent voice of Army families and works hard to improve the quality of life for Army families around the world - on any aspect that is affected by the Army lifestyle.
AFF are often pivotal in achieving improvements for Army families such as changes to Government and military policy and changes to the delivery of how things are provided for families. The AFF does not do this by itself; our role is to highlight problems to the chain of command or service providers, and to work with them and other agencies to improve the support they provide to Service families.
AFF also provides a signposting service to help you find the right person to speak to, as well as providing useful information for Army families through its website and magazine, the AFF Families Journal.
How do I get in touch?
For more information or to ask for a local appointment in your Station telephone:
Tel: +49 (0) 5051962520 (local telephone number for Bergen-Hohne Garrison)
Tel: +49 (0) 5221 9953180 (central telephone number in Germany)
Or visit the Army Families Federation website
Home Start
What services and support does Home Start offer?
We help to increase the confidence and independence of families by:
- Visiting families in their own homes to offer support, friendship and practical assistance
- Reassuring parents that their childcare problems are not unusual or unique
- Encouraging parents' strengths and emotional well-being for the ultimate benefit of their children
- Trying to get the fun back into family life
Our volunteers, who have parenting experience themselves, can offer:
- Precious time for listening and talking
- Help with the children
- A break for parents
- Practical help and reassurance
- A chance to meet other parents in the same boat
- Support to use local services and resources
Parents ask for Home-Start's help for all sorts of reasons:
- They may feel isolated in their community, have no family nearby and be struggling to make friends
- They may be finding it hard to cope because of their own or a child's physical or mental illness
- They may have been hit hard by the death of a loved one
- They may be really struggling the with emotional and physical demands of having twins or triplets - perhaps born into an already large family
How do I get in touch?
For more information or to ask for a local appointment in your Station telephone:
Tel: +49 (0) 505 1962 313 (central telephone number in Germany)
Or visit the Home Start website
SSAFA Forces Help
What services and support does SSAFA Forces Help offer?
SSAFA Forces Help has been serving the Armed Forces and their families for well over a 100 years and our work is as vital today as it has ever been.
Our continually evolving support services are driven by the current needs of the Service community. They are particularly relevant in today’s high pressure military environment, where our contemporary veterans and serving personnel alike often experience different problems from the soldiers, sailors and airmen of earlier conflicts. Reservists too, heavily engaged in current operations, have equal call on our services.
SSAFA services
From the provision of Health and Social services, to supporting the ex-Service community; from running a confidential support line, to delivering holidays for children with additional needs. We cover a very broad spectrum of issues as you can see on our website. We try to bring our solutions to the widest audience possible - anybody whose life has been touched by time in the Armed Forces.
Who we help
If you have a Service connection, then we can offer our support. It is a matter of pride that we spread our net as widely as possible and we will always try to respond to cases of genuine need, whether they are financial, practical or emotional.
How do I get in touch?
For more information or to ask for a local appointment in your Station telephone:
Tel: +49 (0) 2161 472 2553 (central telephone number in Germany)
Or visit the SSAFA Forces Help website
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