Little Troopers

Little Troopers is a registered charity supporting all children with one or both parents serving in our British Armed Forces (regular or reserve). These children face unique daily challenges due to their parents career choice especially when they experience repeated separation of varying lengths of time from their serving parent(s) due to exercises and operations plus moving home and school frequently due to service requirements.

As a charity we ensure all Little Troopers have fundamental resources available to help ease and aid any separation period, it is important to us that support can be reached self-sufficiently from wherever military children are based, that initiatives are in existence to keep serving parent and child connected when miles separate and that there is a community celebrating how special all the Little Troopers out there really are!

Our charity was first created back in 2011 and since that time has grown, changed and become the much loved military children’s charity and vital support toolbox that now exists.

We have created a community for all British Armed Forces families; service, rank, location, military accommodation or private, married or not… none of these factors matter, what bonds everyone is that the children have serving parents. We recognise the unique daily challenges children can face when a parent is serving and we aim with our initiatives and resources to ease and aid separation periods, be it one month or nine months we will be there to support through that time.

How can I access it?

For more information, visit the Little Troopers’ website.

Useful links

• SQUAD: a podcast for military teenagers
• Mindfulness pack: five mindfulness activities
• X-Ray of Feelings: a series of worksheets to help children unpack their emotions
• Affirmation cards: free printable affirmation cards
• Expert View: a series of video clips where experts dive deeper to topics in the SQAUD podcast and offer advice to parents and professionals
• Free online secondary school resources for teachers to download and use with young people 11 years+
• All Together Deployment Club: deployment club for military children of all ages