Members of the Royal Navy and Royal Marines deploy more frequently than personnel in other services. These deployments can be a difficult time not only for serving personnel, but for the families they leave behind.
That's why the Royal Navy has made a special commitment to helping service personnel's parents, spouses, partners and children maintain their physical and emotional wellbeing during times of separation.
Supporting children during deployment
Deployments and separation can be a difficult time not only for serving personnel, but for the families they leave behind. That’s why we’re committed to helping maintain the well-being of naval families during times of separation.
- Storybook Waves
- Children's Workbook
- Huggable Heroes
- Little Troopers
- Memory Box
- Naval Children's Charity
- Naval Families Federation
- Reading Force
Storybook Waves
With Storybook Waves from Aggie Weston’s, deployed Royal Navy and Royal Marines personnel can maintain the link with their children by recording a bedtime story for the child to listen to in their absence.
Once the story has been recorded, Aggie Weston’s volunteers add a soundtrack and create a personalised CD for each child so that he or she can listen to the parent’s voice whenever they want.
Recording a story is easy, and there are recording centres in convenient locations throughout the UK. There are also transportable kits so that stories can be recorded even while on deployment.
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