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he JSHAO provides specialist housing information and advice to encourage Service Personnel and their families,
to consider their civilian housing options and to assist in their transition to civilian life. Where possible, we place Service persons and their families, in suitable accommodation and assist ex-Service personnel still occupying Service Accommodation.
Staff the JSHAO provide briefings that are held at Regional Resettlement Centres in the UK and Education Centres to go through the Civilian Housing Options available. These one day briefs are designed to give you the information to help make informed choices on your civilian housing. While these briefings are normally attended in the last two years of Service, any Service Personnel and/or their partner are welcome to attend at any stage of their Service.
The dates of the briefings are advertised on Units and details are available from Unit Welfare staff or by contacting the JSHAO. We also provide Housing Solutions briefings which are designed as mid career presentations to highlight the need to make early provision for civilian housing.
The MoD Referral Scheme
The JSHAO runs the MoD Referral Scheme. This scheme may be able to help you if you are looking for Social Housing on leaving the Service. We have developed links with Local Authorities and Housing Associations within the UK, who have available housing they wish to be specifically allocated to Service Personnel. Applications should be made within 6 months of your date of discharge to the JSHAO; you will then be contacted if a suitable property becomes available in your chosen area. We cannot guarantee that accommodation will become available in your chosen area, or that applicants will be housed
www.raf-ff.org.uk
‘Housing Matters’ Magazine Ten months a year the JSHAO produces the Housing Matters magazine which has a worldwide distribution of 10,000 copies per month. Each month the magazine focuses on a particular region within the UK, it also contains information and articles designed to help you when you are considering your civilian housing. Copies should be easily available within your Unit but if you have difficulty obtaining a copy please ring the JSHAO.
through the scheme. For more information and application forms visit our website or call the office and speak to the MoD Referral Scheme Coordinator.
Affordable Housing Options Service Personnel (and ex service personnel within 12 months of discharge) have priority status with regard to government affordable housing initiatives. Schemes include part buy/part rent and shared equity loans. For more information on the current government housing schemes and MoD funded initiatives available, please contact the JSHAO team.
JSHAO Contact Details JSHAO, Building 183, Trenchard Lines, Upavon, Wiltshire, SN9 6BE Tel: 01980 618925 Mil: 94344 8925 Email:
AWS-JSHAO-mailbox@mod.uk Online at:
www.gov.uk/housing-for- service-personnel-and-families
Single Person Accommodation Centre for the Ex-Services – SPACES If you are single and about to be discharged SPACES may be able to help you find somewhere to live, they are a housing placement service for single personnel based in Catterick Garrison. SPACES is tasked by the MoD to help assist single Service Leavers to find suitable housing, they work with all Service Personnel regardless of rank and length of service, they make all referrals to the single persons accommodation available at The Beacon in Catterick and Mike Jackson House in Aldershot.
SPACES Contact Details The Beacon, SPACES Office, Marne Road, Catterick Garrison, North Yorkshire, DL9 3AU Tel: 01748 833797 or 830191 Email:
spaces@riverside.org.uk
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