Help for Heroes are proud to announce the latest edition to our great patrons; Sir Ian Botham, former England cricket captain. "These days the word HERO is used far too often! Over the years I have been inspired by many people, from the incredible young boys and girls with Leukaemia to our brave Servicemen and women, all of them REAL Heroes. I had the privilege of visiting Selly Oak Hospital some months ago where I met just some of the wounded heroes from our Armed Services. It was a humbling and inspirational visit." |
Journey South have re-released their single 'What I Love About Home', with all proceeds going to Help for Heroes. Carl and Andy are doing an incredible job and all at Help for Heroes are extremely grateful that they are helping our wounded Heroes. |
Not sure what to get this Christmas for that person whohas every toiletry, game or gadget they could ever need? Look no further; we now have Troop Aid Gift Bags in the H4H shop. Sponsorship of one of these bags costs just £25 and makes the perfect gift. Soldiers who have been wounded in duty often have to wait for their kit to catch up with them, or it has been destroyed in the incident in which they were hurt. A Troop Aid Grab Bag contains clean clothes, toiletries and the means to contact loved ones. In return for your kind donation, you will receive a certificate showing the recipient how their gift has made a huge difference. |
On 13th February, Compass Paranormal will host an evening of paranormal activity in support of Help for Heroes. The evening will be held at Fort Amherst in Kent, a building known for several paranormal occurences, and will be filmed and aired on Sky TV’s Unexplained Channel 201. Tickets for this special event are priced at £65. |
The Burn Hall Hotel in York is hosting a charity masquerade ball in support of Help for Heroes on Friday 26th March 2010, including entertainment from a big band named Huge, who have toured and supported the likes of Matt Lucas, Alisha Dixon and The Bay City Rollers. Tickets cost £75 and are available to purchase now. |
Norfolk Dog Day is returning for its second year on Sunday 8th August 2010 and, like last year, it will be raising funds for Help for Heroes. |
Four middle-aged solicitors are cycling 500 miles across France in 3 days, in support of Help for Heroes. Even though they are used to sitting on their bums at desks all day, they now being asked to sit on a road bike for 4 hours a day. "Last year some of us said it was impossible (Philip); others kept quiet, but we did it. That was last year. And we are back again this year to cycle from Rouen to Le Mans and onto the Loire valley in 3 days at the end of September; another 500 miles plus!" |
Karting for Heroes is a three hour team go-kart endurance race to be held on 23rd May 2010 at Buckmore Park, Kent. The competition is open to anyone and will be raising money for Help for Heroes. Expect fun, chaos, more fun and 3 hours of adrenaline pumping action! |
Phillip Carrington and his friend Rob Tweddle will be kayaking from the Rhine River all the way across the English Channel and then to London in support of Help for Heroes. |
H4H Middlesex County Co-ordinator, Steve Pickston, certainly had a busy weekend on 5th-6th December. He organised the first Help for Heroes shop that opened for the weekend in Uxbridge. He emailed telling us how it all went - ‘Well, it was an amazing weekend! Setting up the shop on the Friday, the amount of people stopping to ask when we were open and what we were planning to sell, we had a feeling it was going to be busy. Local businesses helped out with refreshments for the volunteers and local pubs selling wristbands. The local florist made a display which Im sure you will agree is amazing. On the Saturday morning the Mayor of Hillingdon, Councillor Shirley Harper O'Neill arrived in her official car on time at 9 am and everything was ready. Hillingdon council have raised over £15,000 for Help for Heroes this year so she was happy to come along and open the shop for us. After the formalities I introduced the Mayor to the volunteers, many of them serving members of the armed forces including some RAF Firefighters and RLC bomb disposal personnel. I looked around and there were 6 people, arms full of merchandise waiting to be served! This continued over the next few hours and by lunchtime, I was worried we would have no stock left to open on Sunday! The Military guys were on the high street collecting and pointing people in the direction of the shop and they did a fine The shop proved to be such a success that Steve has agreed to open for one more day! This coming Saturday, 12th December, it will be open from 9am until 6pm. Well done Steve and good luck for Saturday! |
On 24th November, 5 catering assistants, Brian Paton, Eddie Lynch, Hugh McLintock, Chris Shannon and George McQuade, at Glasgow Met College dressed as ‘Dames for the Day’. They gave up their breaks for the day to collect loose change for staff, students and visitors to the Cathedral St Campus. Make up, hair and styling was a joint contribution from the female assistants! They raised a great total of £431! Thank you to everyone involved. |
On 26th September, the South Belfast Sponsored walk raised an incredible £12,453.20. A big thanks to all who helped and organised this, all the hard work paid off! |
Help for Heroes has been selected by Red Burn Primary School as their charity of the year. They have been working hard to raise money. They have held lots of events including a pyjama and cake day and Hero the Bear has also been to visit. Well done guys and thanks! |
The Persian Steps Matt Minshall and Roger Warren decided to climb Jebel Akhdar via the Persian Steps route. Jebel Akhdar is part of the Al Hajar Mountain range in Oman. They began their climb at 0630 with the sun still hidden behind the mountains. Matt describes the steps as ‘incredible; either carved out of the living rock or have been built into the path.’ Apart from a light lunch, Matt and Roger took with them only water and dates – and an H4H flag! The walk was hard, akin to ‘doing 7 hours on a step machine in a sauna!’ as Matt said but nonetheless rewarding and the pair raised a brilliant £2,871.77. A huge thank you to you both.
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Help for Heroes official cook book, Food for Heroes, has won the UK's Best Fundraising Book Award in the International Gourmand Competition to find the world's best food publications. The winner will be picked at the Paris Cookbook Fair on February 11th 2010. Food for Heroes will be up against charity cook books from 73 countries! Click here to buy the book... |
Project 65 In June, Project 65 staged it’s first event, Run to Pegasus. It was an ‘ultra’ marathon which followed the route taken by 6HORSA Gliders in the opening minures of D-Day, 6th June 1944 to their objective, Pegasus Bridge. 167 runners and over 30 support crew left Tarrant Rushton Airfield in Dorset at 1400hrs on 4th June and ran through the night to reach Portsmouth the following day. At 1430 on Friday, the ferry set sail for the French port of Ouistreham. After assembling on the portside, the group made its way for the final 3 miles to run onto the Landing Zone at 0016hrs, precisely 65 years since the assault first began.
On Saturday 6th June, over 700 people including the runners attended a very special unveiling ceremony at the Memorial Pegasus Museum where General Sir Richard Dannatt unveiled the PROJECT 65 Memorial to the 181 men of the Coup de Main assault on the bridges. Almost £150,000 was raised from the RUN TO PEGASUS. The memorial cost £70,000 and the remainder of the proceeds were split between 6 services charities including Help for Heroes. |
Broke Hill Golf Club in Kent recently held their inaugural Night Golf Tournament with funds raised being donated to H4H. They are currently still receiving donations from members and they expect to raise about £800! Well done and a huge thank you! |
Qioptiq Donation On 1st December 2009, as part of the official opening celebrations of a new building at its St Asaph, North Wales site, Qioptiq donated £10,000 to H4H. Thank you so much for such a generous donation from all at H4H.
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On 14th November, at Garndiffaith Millennium Hall in Wales, Garndiffaith Gleemen Male Voice Choir, along with Ystrad Mynach Male Voice Choir and Blaenavon Ladies Choir, put on an evening of songs. Sgt. Ian Fletcher of the RAF gave a very moving speech. The Mayor and Mayoress of Torfaen, Deptuy Mayor and Mayoress of Torfaen and Deputy Mayor and consort of Blaenavon were among the guests. |
28 Squadron presented Bryan d’Arcy, Oxford county coordinator with a cheque after a 10 strong team ran the Munich Marathon earlier in the year. The guys raised over £11,000 for H4H which is superb, thank you so much! |
Bucket Collection Once again this year H4H was invited by Newbury Racecourse to hold a bucket collection at its premier event of the year - the Hennessy Gold Cup. Early on the morning of Saturday, 28th November, an eager band of volunteers gathered at the home of Berkshire County coordinator Peter Davies to get fuelled up on bacon rolls. Then, suitably nourished, they made the short journey to Newbury Racecourse. The race organisers had very kindly offered us a table for the sale of merchandise to supplement the bucket collection so the first task was to get this stall up and running. Once this was done the team was dispatched to strategic points around the ground to begin the collection. After 5 hours of hard, and sometimes very cold, work our merry band had managed to collect £6,727.38 in cash and sold £917 worth of merchandise. A fantastic result! Big thanks to all involved for their very hard work that day! |
Ball Haye Green Working Men’s Club John Skellern and 2 of his good friends, Albert and Pam Foston, decided to organise an evening event for H4H. The night was 4 talented singers gave their time for free and entertained everyone. Money was raised from the door ticket sales and were sold out by Wednesday, two days before the event! Some fantastic gifts were auctioned off or added to a raffle and thanks to local businesses, club members and friend of the club who donated them. They also had a ‘name the bear’ competition. The total raised from the evening was a great £1800! Thank you so much John, Albert and Pam for all your hard work to make the evening such a success. |
David Rice is feeling the chill this winter after shaving off all his hair and moustache to raise money for H4H! He collected £261.31 in total which is great, thank you David! And don’t forget to wear a hat when you go outside! |
Cadets and staff from 863 (Thurston) Sqn ATC collect a brilliant £1214 by having a bucket collection and selling wristbands at Sainsbury’s in Bury St Edmunds on 27th November. A fantastic result guys, thank you very much. |
Tracey and her friend Amie organized a charity ball for H4H. They had 117 guests who enjoyed a 3 course meal and entertainment from Elvis. £2500 was raised from ticket entry, raffle and auction. Prizes were donated by local businesses and individuals. Well done guys and thank you for all your hard work. |
Mallorca Fundraiser On Sunday December 6th Wendy Peters, a journalist with the island’s English language newspaper The Majorca Daily Bulletin, and husband Simon busied th |
James McDowell took part in the Grim 09 off road challenge at Aldershot was held on December 5th 2009. After a week of terrible rain and cold winds the weather was very kind on the day of the event. The course was 8 miles over a military vehicle testing ground, lots of steep hills gullies and waist deep water obstacles to run through. I finished very wet and muddy in a respectable 85 minutes. I have raised approximately £1000 when collected, (hopefully more) It was worth every minute. I retired from the Royal Navy 3 years ago and wish I could do more. |
Christy Hannigan, 14 and Joseph Kasai, 15, from Wellington School, Somerset, completed a 45km sponsored cycle, from the 40's Commando Camp in Somerset to Samford Moor Beacon, Devon, and back in 3 and half hours on 24th October 2009. They raised £275 and would like to say a big thank you to all the people who sponsored them. Big thanks guys and well done! |
Scott Carmichael completed his 26 mile walk for H4H and Children in Need on 20th November. It included live Radio broadcasts on BBC Cambridge along the way and for the last 3 miles of the walk, a guard of honour joined. Well done Scott and thanks! |
Helen Williams organized the event and it was a great success with 120 people coming along to support. There was a disco and a sausage and chip supper, face painting and Christmas Card making for the troops. The venue was generously given for free. The evening raised over £1000 for H4H, fantastic Helen! Thank you very much. |
On 1st November, a fundraising lunch was organised by the Tamu Dhee Association at the Shehenai Banqueting Suite in Reading. The event raised a brilliant £3500 for H4H! Thank you so much, Dhanyabaad! |
Gary Roberts and Andrew Johnston walked the West Highland Way in August for H4H. The pair averaged about 20 miles per day. The weather held out for the first half of the trip but was terrible on the last 2 days! However, the challenge was completed and they both thoroughly enjoyed it. Thank you so much to you both. |
The Metropolitan Volunteer Police Cadets raised £1000 from the donations given following their 21st Anniversary Parade at Horse Guards on 14 June 09. They nominated H4H as a gesture to the soldiers based at Wellington Barracks. Wellington Barracks was where the cadets used as a base on 14 June. |
Military League N.I. Orienteering Event, Hillsborough On Wednesday 2nd Dec, Major Jon Kay organisedthe 6th race in the Military League in Hillsborough Forset, |
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job. We did start to run out of some key items and people asked if we would be open again as they would gladly come back, so we decided to have one more day to fulfil the need. I have to say the two days where fantastic, people who didnt have much money just coming in to show support, kids giving up their pocket money, donations coming in thick and fast both to the guys in the street and also to the shop. When times are hard financially, it just goes to show the support for the Help for Heroes and the Armed Forces is massive and I'd like to personally thank everyone who came in and supported in one way or another’
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