From RAF Basketball to the European Championships

Four remarkable women with Royal Air Force connections have reunited decades after first playing together to represent Great Britain in the FIMBA Over-60s Women’s Basketball Team. Their journey is a powerful story of friendship, resilience, and a lifelong love of sport

Read more about Natasha’s transition journey.

Read about Sally Orange's experience in the the New York City SEAL Swim.

Charlie Marno of the Defence Gardens Scheme writes about their recent open day in Edinburgh.

Laura is an Ex-Military Transformation Coach. Read more about her business here.

ENHANCE+ female veterans training course. Read to find out more!

The Charity HighGround have announced they have secured funding from the OVA Op Prosper initiative. Read more and find the press release here.

This blogpost by MS, Indoor Rowing and Me does a great job of signposting to helpful organisations.

The OVA Dashboard has a new look!

The new Salute Her! Creative Hub is now live! See how you can get stuck in.

Read about the Help for Heroes latest Annual Report.

Heidi Secker, the mind behind the NavyWomen project, talks about how the project came to be.

This month's researcher in our spotlight is Victoria (Vicky) Sutch. Learn more about her research in this blogpost!

Meet our Steering Group members!

We have been chatting to Diane Allen about her book Forewarned, reflecting on her time in the British Army and she shared with us why she wrote the book.

Natalie Merryman, a PhD student and veteran of the Royal Australian Air Force, tells us a bit about her research.

Here we have our next monthly spotlight on the Devolved Administrations with a feature on Northern Ireland. You can hear more about the new Serving and Ex-Serving Women’s Network (SESWN) and a fantastic gallery of photographs of activities that have been going on.

We’ve been talking to Nicky Murdoch, Independent Chair of the Armed Forces Public Patient Voice Group, who was recently nominated for a Lifetime Achievement Award by the Soldiering On Awards.

In the annals of military history, the courage and espionage of Noor Inayat Khan stand as a testament to the extraordinary contributions of women in wartime.

Historian and biographer Helen Fry is the bestselling author of The Walls Have Ears, Spymaster, MI9, and more than twenty books on intelligence, espionage and the social history of the Second World War.

Helen shared with us an extract from Women in Intelligence, out in paperback on 25 June…..