

When you become a collaborator with RFS you are helping to support a network of military spouses across the United Kingdom and the Commonwealth back into work or to focus on their career for the first time in years and in turn rebuild their self-worth.
Our experience and strengths at RFS are second to none, we are military spouses, so we understand the challenges the forces community face and therefore what we need to help this resilient group to rebuild confidence and careers.
Get in touch with us to learn more about how you can collaborate with RFS!
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Corporate Partners
The unwavering support of our corporate partners enables us to provide our community with an array of FREE programs and services. In return, we can help you fulfill your Corporate Social Responsibilities and sign the Armed Forces Covenant, demonstrating your support for our community.
Trusts & Foundations
The Career Academy extends heartfelt thanks to all the organizations that have supported our programs and services through grants, enabling us to support our community.

Tick Your Armered Forces Covenant Criteria
By employing military spouses, you can fulfill your Armed Forces Covenant criteria, demonstrating your commitment to supporting the armed forces community.
Forces Friendly
Promote being armed forces-friendly and open to employing reservists, armed forces veterans (including the wounded, injured and sick), cadet instructors and military spouses/partners.
Selection Processes
The employer must proactively demonstrate that service personnel/armed forces community are not unfairly disadvantaged as part of their recruiting and selection processes.
Exemplar
The employer must be an exemplar within their market sector, advocating support to defence people issues to partner organisations, suppliers and customers with tangible positive results.
Our Community Impact
9,000+
Facebook followers
2,800
Private Facebook Group members
2,300+
Instagram followers
10,300
Twitter audience
3,000+
LinkedIn followers
Robust Database
Over 5,700 military spouses actively looking for jobs or upskilling opportunities within our database
Employee Referral Scheme
A valuable network for attracting top talent
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TESTIMONIALS
Voices of Success: Stories from Spouses and Employers
Spouse
So far so good! It has been interesting learning something new and love how easy and flexible it is to do lessons off the app. In addition to that, the support from my mentor is incredible.
Spouse
I am absolutely loving this course and all the brilliant content. It has honestly been mind blowing, learning about all the techniques involved in sourcing and recruitment. It’s definitely a field I can see myself not only working in but throughly enjoying too.
The support from my mentor has been brilliant and she has been so kind in offering some great advice within the field and encouragement along the way.
Zara
I would absolutely jump at the chance to work for Kelly OCG should the opportunity arise. I honestly feel like this training has been so refreshing and exactly what I needed to get me excited and on that career ladder.
After dedicating many years to raising my family and frequently relocating due to military life, finding the right work/home life balance has been tricky. However, this course has given me a renewed sense of purpose and direction.
Given my varied and often short-term job history due to frequent moves, I will definitely need assistance in refining my CV to better reflect my skills and experiences.
I am extremely grateful for the work you do at RFS and the support you provide to Military Spouses. The opportunities you offer are invaluable, and I deeply appreciate your efforts.
Joselyn Stone, Researcher E50K
I've submitted the feedback form and wanted to express my heartfelt gratitude for your ongoing support in my employment journey. Your guidance has been invaluable, and I'm truly honoured to have had the chance to work with you. Thank you once again for everything, and I'll be sure to stay in touch.
Elizabeth Crook
More importantly, I wanted to reach out and thank you and the team, without your help and support I wouldn’t have been able to get to where I am today, applying for a job outside of RFS was scary and a little daunting however it’s been great! I have a career and a plan, being able to find myself a career whilst being a military spouse has been the best thing ever ❤️
Helen C, Senior Rewards operations Executive, Virgin Red
Helen’s husband used to serve in the Royal Marines but in 2014 he was medically discharged.
Keen to still work from home, Helen has landed her dream job with Virgin Red: “I never dreamed I’d be doing this. I owe so much to Recruit for Spouses and Virgin Red for helping me to get my foot in the door and opening up a whole new career for me. What they are doing for military spouses is just brilliant. My role is fully remote and while I love going into the office to see people when I can, the reality is I wouldn’t be doing this job if I had to commute into London everyday.
Kate C, Virgin Red
Kate reached out to RFS after listening to our podcast with Virgin…."I’m a PR and Communications Manager at Virgin Red. Quite simply, the opportunity to work at Virgin through Recruit for Spouses has opened doors for me that I thought had closed. As a military spouse with two young children, living away from my extended family in various military communities in the UK and overseas - always a long way from a city centre - my PR career has taken lots of twists and turns as I tried to keep it on track while juggling family life. This role at Virgin is a dream come true and means my career goals are back within reach.
Kate Powney, Head of delivery, Virgin Red
When we engaged with RFS, not having worked with such a small agency before, it was a risk but we saw a 80% increase in productivity within three months of engaging with them.
Andrew Swaffield, Chief Commercial Officer Virgin Group & CEO Virgin Red
Virgin Red began working with RFS in July 2020, many of our RFS colleagues have been part of the team since the very start and make up our Member Support Genies. The team deliver an outstanding level of support to the Virgin Red members, responding to up to 4,000 requests each month and our customer satisfaction score is consistently over 80%. We currently have 19 RFS Genies working with us, and we’re delighted to have brought a further 5 RFS colleagues into our business as permanent employees. We look forward to continuing to grow our partnership with RFS in the future.
Virgin Red
Our military spouse team has consistently hit 100% positive feedback. A statistic we have never seen before.
Steve Leach, Group Managing Director, AMS
Never have we had such a small powerful collective team that we see in our military spouse talent pool. The soft skills they bring are outstanding.
Linda Turner, AMS client
I regularly compare recruiting experienced Bid Managers with searching for the illusive purple unicorn – RFS sourced & presented two candidates with experience that exceeded our expectations.
Linda Baldwin, AMS
Through RFS, we were able to find a bid writer, that elusive pink unicorn. I was so impressed with the quality of their talent pool.
Richard Moore, Director Loyalty Rewards Virgin Ltd (left position spring 2024)
I’m delighted to be closely linked with Virgin Red’s mentoring partnership as well as working with the exceptional RFS individuals who form our customer support (Genies) team! Their dedication, flexibility and life skills are a true asset to our business.