Fundraising for Help for Heroes

The soldiers wives and girlfriends (SWAGS) of the Grenadier Guards have produced a calendar for 2008, for sale for £5.00 through Londis shops in Aldershot; online by emailing supportasoldier@hotmail.co.uk or by mail sending a cheque made payable to L Beardshaw, with details of a delivery address, to :

L Beardshaw - 15 Lock Road - Aldershot - Hants - GU11 2PE

Calendars will be returned by first class mail

50% of the proceeds will come to H4H with the other 50% going to Selly Oak Hospital Military wing.

St Margaret’s School, Midhurst will raise £1,000 by providing 2 days of fun activities in the Christmas holidays.

Brewers Shepherd Neame are backing Help for Heroes and helping to support our troops with this great idea. They are producing boxes of 24 Spitfire stubbies with the H4H logo and the slogan ‘Real Bottle’. The packs will be available from Majestic, Booths, Nisa and Makro nationwide in time for Christmas and here’s the best bit... All the brewing profits will benefit our wounded.

So, if you want to do your bit for Blighty and cheer on our brave boys, it’s a case of “bottoms up and chin chin!” We say Well Done to Shepherd Neame!

Staff Sargeant Smith will ride a motor cycle around the coast of the UK in June/July 2008

Verite Reily-Collins will raise money by providing a  Sunday lunch for 50 in Dorchester on 2 December.

Mandy Barker will help to organise a 1940’s Air Show on 13/14 September 2008 in Northamptonshire

Mr Kneale will talk from Lancaster to York in April 2008 and hopes to raise £2,000

S.A.C. Marsh will be climbing Mt Snowdon with each member of a 6 man team, carrying 56lbs plus personal kit over a 10 mile route

Westminster Under School have made H4H one of three charities to benefit from the proceeds of their Christmas Fair

Sandy Norman (mother of a soldier) will do a sponsored week in combat and camouflage cream, including while working in her local store.

John Lindars will help fundraise by donating the proceeds from the sale of RAF memorabilia over the next few months

Gordon Lambert will be training for and completing a 100 mile Nijmegen March in March 2008, with the Essex wing of the ATC

James Salt will be organising a major ball at the Imperial War Museum next Spring in aid of H4H

Sarah Good-Allen and friends from the Bristol University Officer Training Corps will be putting together a ‘naked but decent’ calendar for H4H

Stephen Smith will be doing a major cycle ride for H4H in September 2008

Jeremy Hobbs is raising £1,000 through Rotary Clubs in Staffordshire

Sarah Sheridan will be going without food for 24 hours on 23 November from 7pm

Mike Jenkins will be cycling the Grand Union Canal

Kev Keenan and a team will be attempting to break the Guinness World Record for team water sliding in 24 hours at the Sandcastle Water Park, Blackpool and will give half the proceeds to H4H

Phil Ainscough will be doing the Great North Run and the Great South Run for H4H during 2008

Steve and Elizabeth Taylor will be organising a football match with the Household Cavalry Mounted Regiment on 21 November

Lara Beardshaw and her friend, Deborah have designed and made a cheeky 2008 calendar depicting the life of a soldier’s wife while the men are away

Ollie Crosthwaite-Eyre will be making a solo attempt to swim the English Channel on 29 July 2008, at the age of 17, and will be supporting H4H as one of his charities

Major Niall Stokoe is running Marine Corps Marathon in Washington DC on 28th Oct, please help at http://www.justgiving.com/niallstokoe

“Mark Elliott running London Marathon, Paris Marathon (or two others) plus the Big Bike ride to raise £10,000 for H4H, please help at www.justgiving.com/markelliotthelpforheroes

Lt Comd James Newton DFC writes
‘ As a serving pilot, due out to Afghanistan soon, I know the risks only too well. I/we are very grateful for this type of charity.I know it has been well received by the ‘boys’. Please keep up the good work.’ A percentage of the profit from James book will benefit Help for Heroes.