Year: 2025
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1,000 homes upgraded for military families this Christmas
Military families across the UK will celebrate Christmas in their newly improved homes with more upgrades promised in the new year. Urgent works on The 1000 homes, most in need of refurbishment, have finished ahead of schedule, with a further 250 to be completed by April, 2026. This means that 12 months on from the Consumer Charter launch, we will have increased our initial target by 25%. The first phase of work has taken
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Families First Newsletter – 11 December 2025
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Damp and mould guidance
New page on tackling damp and mould Find new guidance here on tackling condensation, damp and mould.
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Patch Hacks: Greater freedoms to personalise SFA homes
We understand that being able to personalise your home to suit modern family life is important. As part of our ongoing commitment to modernise outdated policies and give Service families more freedoms to personalise their homes, we’re making it easier for families to make self-funded permanent changes to enhance their homes should they wish to.
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Families First Newsletter – 28 November 2025
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Rapid refurbishment works transforming military homes across the UK
Service family homes across the UK are being upgraded as part of improvement works to rapidly raise the standards of military accommodation. DIO is on track to deliver on our commitment to carry out targeted renovations to 1,000 homes before the end of 2025. Over 100 of the properties selected for rapid upgrade works are
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The Future of Defence Housing questionnaire results published
Over 6,300 Service families have shaped the future of Defence housing through their contribution to the Future of Defence Housing Questionnaire, which has been published today. The Ministry of Defence, along with the Tri-Service Families Federations, shared the questionnaire in June 2025 to develop the Defence Housing Strategy, which was launched last week. The
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Minister for Veterans and People visits Bassingbourn to see SFA improvements
The Minister for Veterans and People, Louise Sandher-Jones visited Bassingbourn Barracks on 6 November to see first-hand how service personnel and their families are set to benefit from the biggest transformation of military housing in more than 50 years, as part of the new Defence Housing Strategy announced earlier this week. Rapid improvements are underway to raise the minimum standard of 1,000 of the worst military family homes and almost
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Defence Housing Strategy published
On 3 November 2025 the Secretary of State for Defence, John Healey, announced the publication of The Defence Housing Strategy. Independently led by a team of experts and driven by the input of more than 6,000 service families, this document sets out the most significant change for Armed Forces housing in over 50 years. It
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Families First Newsletter – 23 October 2025
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