WELFARE – HOUSING
Patch Watch
The Best Policy
Ensure you’re insured in your Service
Family Accommodation
We all know that we should have insurance to cover our home contents and
personal possessions. But are you aware that you also need specialist cover for
you and your family while living in Service Family Accommodation (SFA)?
Service personnel are required to have specific insurance for ‘SFA/Licence to
Occupy’ liability, which needs to cover:
• • potential liability up to a maximum of £20,000, to cover any damages to the SFA
caused by themselves or their family
A special
‘WhatsApp’
group called
Patch Watch
has been
launched
for personnel and families
living in the Churchdown and
Innsworth SFA areas – to help
warn of any suspicious activity
or persons in the area.
The Regimental Sergeant
Major (RSM) from the ARRC
Support Battalion runs the
WhatsApp group.
If you wish to be added, send
a text message to the RSM on
07824 509492. You will need
to have the ‘WhatsApp’ app on
your mobile.
Royal Mail
Keepsafe
• • their personal property and that of any spouse/Civil partner and child/children
• • their liability to third parties in respect to injury to them and damage to their
property.
All Service personnel living in SFA are strongly advised to have insurance for
themselves and their families, for ‘SFA/Licence to Occupy’ liability, and for their
home contents and personal possessions. A standard home insurance policy may
not cover all of this, and a specialist policy may be required.
The Services Insurance & Investment Advisory Panel
(SIIAP) can help and assist with finding companies that
provide insurance for Service personnel that includes
‘SFA/Licence to Occupy’ cover. Information and details
can be found at their website www.siiap.org
SFA occupants meeting
Regular SFA occupants’ meetings are held to bring up various issues,
ranging from security matters, maintenance problems, street lighting, the
cleanliness of houses at move-in, to hedge/grass cutting around
the estate.
Please do come along to these meetings to raise your concerns, problems
and issues – both positive and negative – about your SFA or the SFA areas
– with representatives from the Station, DIO, Amey, and the local police.
Meetings are advertised on the Welfare Facebook site – and via
posters in unit departments
If you cannot attend but have an issue that you wish brought up, please
e-mail Sue Miles (Secretary) at [email protected]
If you have a housing issue between meetings, contact the Housing
Officer Paul Wheable at the Welfare Office on 01452 362554 (extension
4554), or via e-mail [email protected]
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Are you concerned about
post/mail piling up in your
home, whilst you are away on
holiday, or other long period?
If so, the Royal Mail has a
service that holds onto your
post/mail for the period you
are away.
The Service is called
‘Keepsafe’. You can ask for
your post to be kept from
17 days to 66 days, at a
relevant cost. You can apply
for the service online, by post,
or by phone.
Full details are on the
website:
www.royalmail.com/
personal/receiving-msil/
keepsafe