H4H have funded the Red Devil's new Help for Heroes canopy and special rig
to allow those who have been wounded, especially leg amputees to enjoy the
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Phil has completed many extraordinary challenges to raise money for Help for Heroes this past year, from rowing across the English Channel to spending two weeks walking the London Marathon, Major Packer, who was not expected to walk again after suffering a spinal injury whilst serving in Iraq in February 2008,has completed his toughest challenge yet. Climb El Capitan, a mountain in Yosemite National Park, in the US, a sheer rock-face ascent of 3,000ft.
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All of us at H4H are very proud of Phil, HUGE congratulations and well done from all the team! |
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On the 21st June 2009, Chris completed the West Highland Way Race and was the first amputee to do so. He commented at the end 'If you think it’s mad for a one armed, one legged bloke to run a mountain race of 95 miles with a 35 hour cut off then think about this- Only a fool would finish the West Highland Way Race and say I conquered the hills, the stones and glens, but what I can say is I went there, trained hard, became part of a team effort, did by my best and in so doing conquered something that limited me. I also hope people will be engaged by the effort and make a donation to Help For Heroes, who are doing an amazing job supporting and encouraging our injured servicemen & women to go one step beyond their limits.'
Sponsor Chris on his fundraising quest to raise money for H4H at Justgiving! |
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Malcolm Cray is currently on his walk from Lands end to John O'Groats, the general public have been turning out in force to support him and Malcolm has raised several thousand pounds already!
Read More and Sponsor Malcolm
Goodluck from all the team at Help for Heroes! |
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A huge thank you to Lydia whoose swim raised over ten thousand pounds for the charity!
A huge well done from all the team at Help for Heroes! |
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RGS Worcester & The Alice Ottley School enjoyed a heroic day of charity fundraising on June the 19th as the school supported Help for Heroes. With every pupil and teacher playing their part, the school had already raised £500 by the end of break – an amount that will significantly help the wounded from our Armed Forces in current combat.
Through a range of activities - many led by the pupils – the amount collected was in excess of £1,600.
RGSAO activities included Gun Running with the CCF Navy Section, Assault Courses, Soak the Teacher, Apple Bobbing, raffles, stalls and much, much more.
Special guests Peter Elcock, Help for Heroes, Volunteer Group Co-ordinator for Worcestershire, and Ian Baldry, Help for Heroes County Co-ordinator for Worcestershire could also be found enjoying the special day on the Worcester site.
“The whole school unified today in support of a fantastic national charity,” commented Andy Rattue, Headmaster of RGS Worcester & The Alice Ottley School.
“The amount raised over such a short period is outstanding and a real testament to the pupils giving their support to worthy causes.”
A huge well don to everyone at RGS Worcester & The Alice Ottley School from all the team at Help for Heroes! |
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Well it’s been a week since I set off from Blackpool and I have to tell you I have encountered the most kind and generous people along the way. I have had great support from my friends and from people I don’t even know all keen to support our Heroes. Thank you everyone.
Throughout the week I have called at, Fleetwood, Silecroft, St Bees, Allonby, Ross, The Isle of Whithorn, Maryport and Port Patrick and clocked up a total in excess of 150 miles.
I have been keeping everyone up to date with where and what I’m doing via my blog page.
Please take a look at my justgiving page.
My fundraising is going extremely well, I did set a target of £5000 but I had almost reached that before I set off so I have raised it to £10,000, and I hope it won’t be too long before I need to raise that as well.
Take a look at Eric's challenge under the H4H extraordinary events.
Well done and a huge cheer of support from all of us from the Help for Heroes Team! |
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The Big Yomp on the 1st May 2009 is an 80 mile walk in the Peak District averaging 15 plus miles a day for 5 days emulating the march from Ajax Bay to Port Stanley during the Falkland's Conflict, they have raised a fantastic £21,844.00!!!
Team members:
Yompers: Marchento, Big Dave, Linda H, Eggy, Paul, Steve 3.0, Wardy, Steve, Kempy, David, Chris, Strutter, Adam C. Support: Fiona, Lisa, Fenster, Lainey
A Huge well done and Thank you from all the team at H4H! |
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The launch of the Mobil 1 Team Sussex race car showing Johnson Beharry with Anna Dugard, the team driver.
Thanks to Mobil 1 Team Sussex from all the team at H4H! |
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Mark Evans was one of four contestants selected by Andrew Lloyd Webber to possibly sing for the UK at Eurovision, and recently played the principal role of Roy Bolton in High School Musical in the West End. Mark kindly collected a cheque for H4H from Castell Alun High School, Hope, Wrexham. North Wales.
A huge thanks to Mark and Castell Alun High School from all the team at H4H! |
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The Ride for Heroes Team who are riding from John 'O Groats
to lands End and en route doing a number of Free fall jumps to raise money
for H4H.
The picture shows staff at Escape Route a Pitlochry bike shop who have supported them with bikes, spares, food and clothing for the trip.
Well done from all the Team at H4H! |
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Tanith Wiles skydiving on Friday 12th June at Headcorn Parachute Club in Kent, raising a fantastic £400.00!
Well done Tanith and a huge thanks from all the team at H4H! |
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More Bus Bournemouth Air Festival organisers have unveiled a world record attempt that is set to be a heart-pounding, roaring, glowing, explosive event like no other – the launch of 110,000 fireworks in 60-seconds or less!
The ‘Roar on the Shore’ world record attempt will not only be celebrating the launch of this year’s More Bus Bournemouth Air Festival but will also be a fundraising event for Help for Heroes.
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The Army wives of Ipswich are completing the 3 Peaks Challenge,
sponsor the ladies at Justgiving!
Good luck from all the team at Help for Heroes! |
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James Burns attended and gave a talk about H4H to the students, staff and parents at the Guildford College Student Premiere on 11th June. The first year students decided themselves to raise money for H4H on the evening of the event and raised a creditable £132.49 in cash donations.
The evening was for the students to show their films to fellow students, staff and parents. The films were around 3-10 minutes long and counted towards their course work marks for their first year at the college.
Well done and thank you from all the team at H4H! |
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Much, much more than a cook book! This book asks British personalities and servicemen and women, both current and past,
- Who their hero is
- Why they are their hero
- What they would feed them
Contributors include Private Harry Patch (110 year old veteran of WW1), political figures including Gordon Brown and other party leaders; celebrities and sporting heroes such as Sir David Jason, Dame Judi Dench, Ewen MacGregor, Dame Vera Lynn, Sir Steve Redgrave, Bruce Forsyth, Dame Tanni Grey Thompson, the 4 service chiefs, Flight Lieutenant Michelle Goodman DFC, Captain Dave Rigg MC, Sub-Lieutenant Donald Keeble DSC and many others. |
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Tiles retailer Topps Tiles staged its first ever nationwide fundraising day on Saturday 16 May to support the work of Help for Heroes. Stores throughout the country organised ‘superheroes’ events and fun days and the day was kicked-off at the firm’s HQ near Leicester with truck pull by Topps’ lorry driver Phil Hunt, who pulled 18 tonnes in a torrential downpour. Body-builder Phil is now in training for a second H4H truck pull next year which he hopes will be a record-breaker.
Topps Tiles have been Help for Heroes supporters for just six months and staff have already raised over £60,000.
A HUGE well done and thank you from all the team at H4H! |
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18 children in Oak Class (aged 4 and 5 ) from St.Lawrence's Primary School, Somerset did a sponsored run on Monday. One of our dads Lt Cmdr Doubleday presented each child with a medal. They raised a fantastic £200!
Well done to all the children from all the team at Help for Heroes! |
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John Bullough ex Scots Guards, is in the uniform of an officer in the Atholl Highlanders, this is the only private army in the UK, based at Blair Castle.
John is also MD of McEwens of Perth who has donated a couple of thousand to the cause and continues to raise funds.
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This was the first H4H Launch in a Morrison's store it was held on 1st June to 7th June at the Cortonwood Store Brampton Barnsley in the picture was Mrs
Jones a customer, Mr Simon Nunwick store General Manager, Mrs Catherine
Slingsby (Collector)Cpl Simon Brown who was injured in Basra and Mr Doug
Speight collector and a member of BLESMA (British Limbless Ex Serviceman's
Association the total raised in store and with orders was £5,800.00.
Photo's with compliments of the Barnsley Chronicle Newspaper.
Well done and thank you for your support from all the Team at H4H! |
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Fantastic Hero the Bear Rucksacks are now available in the shop as well as H4H Rugby shirts for children.
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Daniel Young completed the 23 mile yomp raising a fantastic £209!
The walk was hard but enjoyable, had 55lb in the bergen so was a bit of a challenge, but well worth it. Completed the tab in 9hrs 11 mins. Could hardly walk the next week but came round by thursday, much to the amusement of my workmates. .
A Huge thank you from all the team at Help for Heroes! |
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On 2nd June this year eleven men and women from Army Training Center Pirbright undertook a one thousand mile bike ride in support of both Help for Heroes and MacMillan Cancer Support. The aim of the event was to raise over £25,000 to be split evenly between the two charities. The route of the ride passed through Denmark, Germany, Netherlands, Belgium and France arriving at Ranville outside Caen allowing the riders to take part in the 65th anniversary of the D-Day landings in Normandy.
The team all of which are based at ATC(P) undertook this event in their own time and at their own expense, with no financial backing coming from the Army, which makes it all an even greater achievement. It was undertaken during 2nd - 8th June ’09 and was ridden 24hours a day.
Well done and a huge thank you from all the team at Help for Heroes! |
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The runners from "The Falcon Bearer" in Knutsford were Smooth, Dave, Shady, Shell & Stuart (as they appear in the photo), and raised a fantastc £500!
Well done and a huge thank you from all the team at Help for Heroes! |
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The A33 Scooter Club is a club consisting of German and English enthusiasts and this year they nominated Help for Heroes as their preferred charity for their fundraising efforts. The fantastic sum of £586.84 plus £205 on JustGiving was raised by holding a Northern Soul All Night party and a charity ride-out which attracted Lambretta and Vespa enthusiasts from all over Germany.Thanks to everyone who sponsored them and NAAFI for donating the meals and refreshments that kept them fuelled.
Well done and a huge thank you from all the team at Help for Heroes! |
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A reborn doll show is probably not the usual sort of event to find associated with Help for Heroes, however, my friend and I who shared a stand both have current family serving in the Army who have not long been back from Afghanistan. My friend's husband and my son both returned safely. We both felt that we were lucky this time and decided to do something to help those not so fortunate. With this in mind we decided to run a raffle with the prize of a reborn doll. But by the end of the day, eleven more prizes had been donated by different stand holders. Throughout the day raffle tickets were sold at £2-00 for a strip of 5. It was really well supported and our total raised £320-00.
Well done and a huge thank you to you both and all those that brought a raffle ticket! |
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Photograph shows Insp Garth Stinson, self & Ex-Sgt Richard Delderfield approaching the finish line.
Well done and a huge thank you from all the team at Help for Heroes! |
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 Keith Taylor’s 70th birthday picnic raises £120:00
As the extremely proud father of Angus (ex 42 & 45 Royal Marine Commando) and Jamie (ex 2nd and then 3rd Battalion The Parachute Regiment) also Godfather to Simon (ex 1st Battalion The Parachute Regiment) and Tim (ex 7th Gurkha Rifles), what better charity to raise money for.
Close friends and family dug deep as Simon’s eldest daughter Charlie (who plans to follow in their footsteps with a career in the Army) played jazz on her saxophone whilst the collection ‘hat’ went round.
Happy Birthday Keith and a huge thank you from all the team at Help for Heroes! |
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Members of the Rotary Club of Bridge of Allan and Dunblane, took up the challenge of climbing all 17 Munros within Stirling District within 24 hours was completed on 17 June. By the way, a Munro is a hill that is over 3000 ft. The team raised a fantastic £1300 pounds for the charity.
A huge well done from all the team at H4H!
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Eddie Grice and 2 of this pals started at 1100hrs Sun 31st may and finished at 1300hrs Sun 7th of June. They started from Rome and Ended at the Casino in Monte Carlo, Monaco. The total mileage/Km was 510miles/820Km in seven days. Raised over £600 so far but he hasn’t finished collecting yet.
The ride took slightly longer than expected due to two days of extreme weather conditions and the hospitalisation of one of the groups cyclists after a high speed down hill crash. Eddie a former LWEM(R) in the Royal Navy spent the first 3 days of the ride suffering from food poisoning. However, he was delighted to have completed the whole distance and to be able to support H4H.
Well done from all the team at Help for Heroes!
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A R registered red MX-5 Mk1 is about to set off on an epic journey around the country to mark the 15th anniversary of the MX-5 Owners Club and the 20th anniversary of the car. Raffle tickets will be on sale throughout the car’s journey with all net proceeds being donated to Help for Heroes.
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 It is with great pleasure for me to email you with the outcome of our event held in St Joseph's Parish Centre BURY on Saturday 30 May 09.
Dispite being up against the final of Britians Got Talent, we managed to raise £1000.00 for Help for Heroes. Good entertainment, good company and a very good cause!
The entertainment was provided by "2 Step to Heaven" and "In the Mood", with DJ Scooby acting a MC/Compare!
Some of the things we did to raise the money included Guess Hero Bear's Birthday, were the winner was able to take Hero home! There was a football shirt up for auction, half Man Utd and half Celtic, signed by Roy Keene and Henrik Larsson. The shirt went for a bargin £100.00.
There followed a raffle, with prizes donated by local shops aswell as family and friends.
This was only part one of our fundraising for H4H, as we are running a quiz night on 27 Jun 09 (Armed Forces Day).
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The Pen y Fan ( Fan Dance) was completed on Saturday 23rd May by 120 members of the FOC ( Ex Airborne types from around the UK). The franternal old comrades look after all ex Airborne and of late have tried to support there serving Warriors in the Airborne Units.
Thank you from all the team at H4H!
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 Fundraising by Sherborne Army Cadets & their Air Cadet colleagues raised a fantastic
£3500!
A 48hr sponsored cycle ride held in February at the Sherborne Army Cadet Force Detachment Building. 20 Army and 10 Air Cadets took part in the event. The Army Cadets were split into teams of 4, each riding for 30 minute shifts and then after the 2 hour team shift, they would go home and return in 10 hours time to continue with their challenge. Not a single Cadet complained about the very late/very early shifts and all were ultra enthusiastic to take part.
In April this year, Sherborne Army Cadet Force organised a 'non uniform' day at the Gryphon School with the theme of 'Heroes'. Some people came as traditional heroes such as Superman, Batman etc, others as characters such as Darth Vader, Ghandi, Hagrid from Harry Potter and Indiana Jones.
Well done and thank you from all the team at H4H!
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I did my skydive on 1/6/09. words can't describe the feeling of jumping out of a plane at 15,000 feet, it was the best thing I have ever done in my life. I blame ross kemp for this lol his programme on sky1 made me think of the idea of doing this. I felt I had to do something, even tho it was just a small thing to do for this amazing charity that I truly believe in! i have raised over £500 and still counting!
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Richard Dean and Ray Green - two former Green Jackets walked the South Downs Way dressed as Roman Centurions!
Richard has been a great supporter of H4H and also completed the bike ride in 2008. They braved
extreme weather conditions (both hot and cold) in a very exposed area of Sussex and helped to raise the profile of H4H along the way. Richard and Ray raised an incredible £1600 pounds!
A huge well done and thank you from all the team at H4H! |
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Steve Power raised a fantastic £1161.00 at the rally and rode 630 mile round trip!
A huge well done and thank you from all the team at H4H! |
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One hundred tractors started the run including our local priest Father Nicholas, his fourth run and our Bishop the Right Rev'd Robert Evens Bishop of Crediton. Better known as Bishop Bob, his first time driving a tractor.
The run was over 20+ miles wandering through Devon lanes between Colyton and Chardstock, three our approximately. Towards the end of the run the route was off road and would through some beautiful bluebell woods, the flowers were still in bloom and the perfume overpowering.
A great day was had by all. Jessica Colson, local H4H was there at the beginning selling mechanise and did very well. Now to the good news, our target of £1,500 was not out met but increased by over 30% and we will be presenting Jessica with a cheque for £2,000 on the 24th June.
Ann Veit - Secretary to Colyotn Vintage Tractor Run
A huge well done and thank you from all the team at H4H! |
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BRAVE soldiers proudly presented a Help for Heroes cheque with Page 3 girls Sam and Amy yesterday - after being cheered on their march through a city.
Thousands lined the streets to applaud 1st Battalion (Cheshires) Mercian Regiment who were given the freedom of Chester. Read More at The Sun Online.
A huge well done and thank you from all the team at H4H! |
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James Burns on behalf of Help for Heroes collects a cheque from Carol Message (Housemistress of George House) and Mathhew Sparrow the George House Captain.
The boys discussed many different charities (suggested by the boys) and after much discussion, they decided that would like to help young people who had been fighting in other countries for Britain. They planned a sponsored cross country event which was open to the whole school. George House boys made their own medieval tunics (out of pillow cases) for the event!
The boys were given the responsibility of asking friends and family to sponsor them and then to collect the money. All houses contributed generously.
A big thank you, from all the team at H4H! |
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The Cake Sale in Sloane Square on 9th May organised by Sue Dewhurst has raised a phenomenalt £5,507.60 – which is
simply fantastic!
A Huge Thank you from all the team at H4H! |
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Our first event the Lichfield Bower on bank Holiday Monday 25th May was a roaring success we entered a float in the carnival parade based on an army field hospital, we had a special effects artist Hazel Sawyer kindly donate her time to make up the wounded, you wouldn't believe how real it looked... Read More
A huge well done to everyone involved and thank you from all the team at H4H! |
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“It took place at the 'Venu' night club in Rutherglen main street, Glasgow on Saturday 30th May (Scottish 'Homecoming cup' Final day) .
Some donated cash and some paid a 'Fiver' to tear a strip off me. Some slowly and some fast, you can see the enjoyment the scunners had!
Andy raised £120 on the day, but still got money to collect in aswell as the 'tins'.
A huge well done to everyone who took part from all the team at H4H! |
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Che Guevara, The Congo, Nelson Mandela, the CIA and the South Africans. What connects them?
The Sowti Squad does.
"From bloody and brutal selection to the raw savagery of mercenary warfare, The Sowti Squad is a page-turner you won't want to put down."
SOLDIER Magazine, March 2009
Buy for £7.99 inc pp: 10% donated by author to Help for Heroes - www.thesowtisquad.com
Thanks to Ray Kane for his support from all the team at H4H! |
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Judy Hitchcock completed a 62 mile walk for H4H raising an incredible £10,000 pounds in sponsorship.
62 Miles
– one year for every year of my age!!! It was a really good experience although the bear grumbled all the way about the wet weather spoiling his fur!!
If you want some info please look at my blog.
A really big thank you from everyone on the team at H4H! |
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Dale,Damian,Grant and Rich ran the Prague Marathon and raised a fantastic £1500 pounds in sponsorship!
Despite a weather forecast of 14C and showers it was sunny and hot. Normally great but not for a run of 26.2 miles. The agony was compounded by cobbled streets which play havoc with the ankles.
Despite this we had good times: Dale: 3hr 28m -
Damian: 3hr 50m -
Grant: 3hr 55m - Rich: 4hr 17m
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This school year, Year 8 pupils at Charles Darwin School have so far raised an impressive £1600 for Help for Heroes. The target is £2000 and with many tutor groups still to complete all their fundraising events, including a superhero disco in June, the year group look set to smash this total.
Read More and check out their Video on YouTube!
A Huge well done and a big thanks for all the team at Help for Heroes! |
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Lee Jones ran the Llenelli 10k in 51 minutes! There was a good attendance and the conditions were perfect for running and Lee raised £50 for the charity.
Well done from all the team at H4H! |
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Diane McConochie took part in the Ramsey Sprint on 9th June at this year's Isle of Man TT festival.
Having never sprint raced my motorbike before, I was excited and scared all at the same time. I need not have worried...the event organisers were very helpful, and there were plenty of other seasoned competitors to encourage me, as well as some who were complete beginners like me! After a few initial runs down the eighth of a mile sprint, I managed to pull out a reasonably competitive time of 7.97 seconds, which was my best effort of the day. I had the added pressure of being the only female in my class, which simply spurred me on to beat some of the guys! The whole day was fantastic, and everyone there was very generous, putting money into my collecting tin, and being very supportive.Just to put the icing on the cake, I was awarded a trophy at the end of the event, which was a huge surprise to me and left me speechless for the first time ever, according to everyone!
Diane has raised over £700 pounds which is fantastic!
Well done from all the team at H4H, the girls in the office are especially happy that you stuffed the guys!
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Tracey Davies together with the Llynfi Arms of Tondu Bridgend held a charity night on the 1st of May raising approx £730.00 . Tracey is on a quest with her team to raise 10K for the charity!
A huge thank you to Tracey and all the team, and goodluck with your skydiving event coming up next! |
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Alfie Mac has raised over £600 in sponsorship and is only 18 months old! He has also got a job as the team mascot of Ipswich Football club wearing his in support of T-shirt.
Well done and a huge thanks from all the team at H4H! |
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Bethan Hughes on her Hero's Harp tour so far raising a fantastic £360 in 2 hours!
As the only professional harpist in the military (203 field hospital) its quite bizarre to see a harpist in camo's!
Well done and a huge thanks from all the team at H4H! |
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Debbie Merrit organised a fantastic community fun day in Devon, the St. Johns ambulance Cadets and ResusciAnnie and also the Fire Service came along.
Well done! and a huge thank you from all the team at Help for Heroes! |
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Dave from Dunnington near York and Hilary from Pontefract have cycled from Lands End to John O'Groats! raising a fantstic £3000!
Well done! and a huge thank you from all the team at Help for Heroes! |
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The Fighting Arts Organisation of Great Britain (FAOGB), formerly The Kempo Jujitsu Budo Association Great Britain was officially founded in 1990, but was already in existence since 1987. We have vastly grown over the years and now include a multitude of styles not just Kempo Jujitsu, we now house the following to name a few, Jujitsu, Aiki Jitsu, Atemi Jutsu, Goshin Jutsu, Judo, Aikido, Tai Jitsu, Kenpo Karate, Close Quarter Combat and various styles of Karate and Kung Fu so we now have a more appropriate name. The FAOGB is headed by Hanshi Peter Browne (8th Dan - Kempo Jujitzu). Each year, we hold a gathering of masters and students and hold a gala evening in a hotel in London to which we invite relatives and friends. About 100 people attend. We held this year's event on Saturday 23rd May at the Kingsway Hall Hotel, Holborn. It was at this event that we held the raffle.
A Big thank you to everyone who took part from all the team at H4H |
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A fantastic 26 runners took part in Plymouths Half Marathon on the 24th May.
A huge thank you and well done from all the H4H Team! |
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Nelly Evans bellydancing event for H4H on Tue 19/5 was very successful and raised a fantstic £137!
Thanks for your support! from all the team at Help for Heroes! |
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The charity concert on sat 9th May given by The Hemingford Ladies in the Free Church St Ives was a great success and a super evening was had by all and raised £1420!
Thank you from all the team at H4H! |
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Heather Graham arranged a 'Try A Therapy' day on 16th May to raise money for Help for Heroes. The weather wasn't good but people still turned up to have a complementary therapy or beauty treatment with members of Southwest Complementary and Beauty Specialists. Heather raised a fantastic £160!
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Leading trade paint brand Leyland Trade has further strengthened its support of the Help for Heroes charity by making an explosive appearance at an Army barracks in North Yorkshire!
The Leyland Lovelies, Tina and Pippa, have already set pulses racing throughout 2009 and it was the turn of soldiers from 21 Royal Engineer Regiment at Claro Barracks in Ripon to see what all the fuss was about as the girls stormed onto camp recently.
Armed with fundraising buckets, the girls set about collecting as much money as they could carry in a bid to support those wounded in the British Army’s current conflicts in Afghanistan and Iraq. Life-sized posters of the girls were up for grabs in a raffle, while the delighted soldiers enjoyed a real morale booster, as they were able to pose for pictures with the duo.
The Lovelies’ visit came hot on the heels of a spectacular charity sky dive by Cpl Ali Burns and with the help of Leyland she ensured her fundraising smashed the £2000 barrier.
Ali said: “I can’t thank Leyland enough for the support they have shown me and, of course, the Help for Heroes charity. All the lads on camp were thrilled to have the girls there for the day and their presence helped us to raise over £200 in the raffle alone.”
Thank you from all the team at Help for Heroes! |
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Rebecca Harvey and team carried out their event and it went really well! They have already collected £200 and have another £210 in promised sponsorship!
Check out the hilarious You Tube video!
Well done, thank you and a big ouch! from all the team! |
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A detachment from the local Perth RLC Black Watch Army Cadet Force were on
hand to raise collection funds at McDiarmid Park on Sunday at the Match
between St Johnstone and Queen of the South.
On hand was Mike Dickinson the Perthshire Co-ordinator for Help our Heroes
and Cadet Gail Scott, Cadet Fiona Crawford, SI Tony Hatton, Mike Dickinson - Help for Heroes Co-ordinator, CSM Tracey Scot, Cadet Heather Crawford.
From all the Team at H4H a huge well done and thank you! |
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Simon Scott and Team took part in the walks at Goodwoodon the 9th May.
The picutre shows the group that took part , at the end of their respective walks.
The team raised a fantastic £500!
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On Thursday 23rd April the Angler's Inn, Bishopstoke, Hampshire, hosted a Saint George themed quiz evening in aid of "Help for Heros".
The pub management team of Rachael Light, Carey Harding and Cruzzette Liloc donated all the food for the evening and the quiz prizes.
Quizmaster Tony Thompson (a former RAOC soldier) was paramount in his efforts to raise funds. His outgoing attitude and wit kept the teams entertained all evening, and he even allowed the customers to wax his legs for £5 a strip.
Over £250 was raised from the quiz entry fees and leg waxing, 20 H4H wristbands were sold and further monies from the collection tins is still to be counted. A successful and very enjoyable evening.
Many thanks to all involved!
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| Following hot on the heels of It’s a Knockout, Tug of War and a Field Gun competition the WO & CPO Mess of HMS Bulwark hosted and organised a Horse Racing Night. Despite the torrential down pour during the afternoon that had delayed the earlier field gun event, the race stewards determined that the ‘Flight Deck’ course was fit to race on with the going assessed as “ Rock Hard Camrex.”
A wide variety of punters attended, dressed in their own unique interpretation of what to wear at the races. The Chief Stokers 4 foot tall, yellow and black top hat drawing particular praise! With flat races, a steeplechase, water obstacles and a handicap (exact numbers finish) the variety of horses and jockeys on view was enough to keep everyone entertained and in the case of the water jumps, soaking wet. At the end though there was only one worthy winner, Help 4Heroes, who received a donation from the WO & CPO Mess of over £1700; the ship’s Welfare Fund topped this up from the Charity Chest to a whopping £2500.
HMS Bulwark WO & CPO Mess would like to thank everyone who attended for making it such a great evening.
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The charity football event on held by the Royal Marines Reserve Tyne, went very well apart from the weather!
On the day the team raised just over £2000 and still have money coming in! As this event went well they have organised a further two events. The first is a bike ride from our unit Anzio House in Newcastle to Anzio beach in Italy, a beach which saw allied troops land in WW2, this is planned to start on 30th May 2009 and be completed a few days later. The second is a Sportsmans dinner at the unit's Anzio House on 3rd September 2009.
Thank you from all of us at Help for Heroes and well done on the fundraising, fantastic! |
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The Kirkcaldy health shop recently raised £300 for Help the Heroes, photo shows Keren Byrnes MacLean presenting the cheque to Bob McLaren of Help the Heroes.
A huge well done and thank you from all the team at H4H! |
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Well I’ve entered now so there’s no backing out of it, or so I thought when I applied to enter the Stratford-Upon-Avon Night Day Double Marathon in November 2008. I had decided to build on the previous season’s achievement of completing the Double Ironman Challenge in 2008 by entering a Double Marathon and returning to the Double Ironman Challenge on 1 – 2 August 2009.
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All the staff at Help for Heroes would like to say well done and good luck with your Ironman Challenge! |
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The Bath Charity 7’s is a 1-day rugby 7’s festival that is organised each year to raise money and awareness for a chosen charity. The Bath Rugby Community Foundation has benefited from the event in the past, and the Help for Heroes charity will benefit in 2009. Since its inception in 2007 the tournament has grown from 20 men’s teams playing over 2 pitches, to 64 teams competing in 4 competitions over 8 pitches making it the UK’s biggest 1-day 7’s rugby festival.
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Good luck from all the team at Help for Heroes! |
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The Lads at ATC Lasham (Southend ) raised £510.00 for the Charity growing Bandito Moustaches. The Apprentice tried his best but had to resort to Velcro for the photos as he could only manage fluff!
A huge thank you from all the team at Help for Heroes! |
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Tony and Sue Hoskinson held a joint fancy Dress Birthday Party (50's,60's,70's) on the 21st March, and instead of presents asked for donations to 'Help for Heroes Phil's Million' .The image is one of Tony mentioning Phil in his speech. A very sizable amount was raised but then they did have 'Ziggy Stardust', 'Alice Cooper' and 'Abba' to name but a few!
A huge
thank you from all the team at Help for Heroes! |
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Chris Moon MBE Completes the West Highland Way Race!
Charity Pikeman walking for Heroes
Food For Heroes
The Mallerstang Horseshoe and Nine Standards Yomp
1000 Mile Bike Ride
Fabulous Raffle
Pete Mcternan's Skydive
Colyotn Vintage Tractor Run
Priory Prep School . . .
Lichfield Lizards Motorcycle Club. . .
The Sowti Squad 
Ramsey Sprint !
Leyland goes marching on for Help for Heroes 
McDiarmid Park
St George's Day Pub Quiz at the Anglers Inn, Bishopstoke.
Fancy Dress Birthday Party