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Flt Lt Vanessa Butler, raised a fantastic £4370 treking to the Everest Base Camp in Nepal. Vanessa is currently deployed in Afghanistan.
A huge thank you from all the team at Help for Heroes! |
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Camilla and Anna - Louise are finally back in London having just completed the Monte Carlo Rally raising a fantastic £7286 for the charity!
Read more about their challenge and enjoy the pictures here
A huge thank you from all the team at Help for Heroes! |
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Battle Back have recently participated in a US Military Paralympic Sports Camp in San Diego. The team consisted of Martin Colclough DMRC, a RAMC Physio (Jo Gibbs) and 6 disabled Servicemen (1 x RM, 4 x Army and 1 x RAF).
They were accompanied by a journalist and photographer from the Sunday Telegraph.
You can read the article online at the Sunday Telegraph
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Mark Elliott collecting a cheque from Rear Admiral Rees Ward CB, Director General of the DMA.
A big thank you from all the team at Help for Heroes! |
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Royal Navy instructors based at HMS Raleigh have put their physical fitness to the test to raise over £1,000 for Help for Heroes.
The organiser of the event was Petty Officer ‘Thorny’ Thornhill, aged 36, from Eggbuckland in Plymouth. He was joined by fellow instructors, Lieutenant Chris Wood, Chief Petty Officer ‘Faz’ O’Farrell and Petty Officers Russ Simpson, ‘Paul’ Newman and ‘Buster’ Brown. All are responsible for training new recruits to the Service.
From all of us at Help for Heroes well done and a huge thank you!
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Miller’s Vanguard, has boosted local chap Ray Porter's 'Help for Heroes' fundraising by £2000.
Former Bury soldier Ray, set himself the challenge of completing 12 marathons in 12 months.
Thank you from all the team at Help for Heroes! |
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Three UK servicemen based in North America have recently pounded the streets of 3 American cities in November 2008 to show their support for ‘Help for Heroes’ good work. Lt Col Jon Ball RLC (Army) made the lottery for entry into the prestigious New York City Marathon, where he ran a time of 4hrs 11mins. Meanwhile, the Royal Navy were represented in the Richmond Marathon through CPO Tim Jones, who, despite injury, valiantly completed the course in 5hrs 15mins. Completing the Tri-Service effort was Wg Cdr Paul James, who chose to run in the City of Brotherly Love, achieving a time of 2hrs 54mins in the Philadelphia Marathon.
A huge thank you from all the team at Help for Heroes! |
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Durham County Council Chairman Len O'Donnell present a cheque for £4,000 to Barbara Chambers of the Help for Heroes Fund.
Speaking after presenting a cheque, Mr O'Donnell said there was a real need to give extra
backing to the country's armed forces.
A huge thank you from all the team at Help for Heroes! |
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Steve Roberts raised £325 pounds on the 31st Jan.
Steve grew his hair for 18 months whilst his father Dave was undergoing cancer treatment agreeing only to shave it off once Dave was in remission.
Big thanks from all the team at Help for Heroes!
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Fleet Morning Townswomen’s Guild raised £2,620 for Help for Heroes.
Fund raising events included a NAAFI styled Lunch for 40 member, numerous themed lunches, a Sponsored slim. The annual Garden Party with creamed tea featured a service personnel head gear competition, and a ENSA style concert. Members also donated their small change under the slogan “Please give us a Helping Hand”.
Carolyn Balfour, the local county coordinator for Help for Heroes, received the guild’s donation at their first meeting in 2009 held at the Harlington Centre Fleet.
Carolyn, said that like so many others with family members in the services, the Charity is very close to her heart. She therefore had great pleasure and much gratitude in accepting the cheque on behalf of the Charity.
Big thanks from all the team at H4H!
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Dave from Dunnington near York and Hilary from Pontefract are long-standing family friends, keen walkers and cycling buddies. They have a combined age of 133 safely putting them in the category of pensioners!
They will set out from John O’Groats on Thursday 28 May following the east of Pennines route with their trusty support team keeping a close eye on their progress.
Read More
All of us at Help for Heroes would like to with you the best of luck with your challenge! |
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James Cooper, Stephen Kinghan, Ben, Lisa, Marianne Hunter all ran the Tough Guy for H4H and raised several thousand pounds.
Steve commented
"It was an honour getting beasted for you, cant wait for next year :) "
Well done and thank you from all the team at Help for Heroes! |
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Our Help for Heroes coordinator Kay Burry receiving a cheque from Lynn Bannatynne and staff from Chivas Brothers Ltd,in Newbridge.
A cheque for a fantastic £7,000! The staff at the Newbridge plant has elected Help for Heroes to be their 2009 charity.
All the team at H4H would like to say a very big thank you!
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This cheque handover was from the Atholl Players an amateur dramatic club in Pitlochry Perthshire. They put on a play, Dick Barton Special Agent in November at the Pitlochry Festival Theatre.
They raised £795.88 from a bucket collection and donation. The people in the photo’ are members of the cast and Mike Dickinson (In the H4H tie) Coordinator for Perthshire.
All of us at Help for Heroes would like to thank everyone who contributed!
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The Burns dinner in Scotland raised £300!
A big thank you to everyone from all the team at Help for Heroes! |
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Robert Altham our Cambridge Coordinator collecting a cheque from (left) Jonathan Stimson (ex RAF Regt) and Derrick, his boss the MD of Web Marketing Group.
A huge thank you from the team at H4H!
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We are delighted to announce additional products which are now featured in the Help for Heroes shop!
Bear Badges, large tri-service magnets and belts featured now.
View Shop
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David Gash organized a fundraising event at Owen’s Bar in Southsea on August bank holiday and raised £1380 for H4H.
A huge thank you to David Gash and everyone involved from all the team at Help for Heroes!
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The Long Mynd Archers have raised a fantastic £1,128 for the charity, photograph includes Rowland Sherbourne, Alison Coggon, Rupert Coggon, John Lewis, Pamela Matthews, Jeremy Hilditch, Phil Slack.
Well done and huge thank you from all of us at Help for Heroes! |
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In September 2009, 5 instructors from ‘C’ Company Gloucestershire Army Cadet Force took part in the Paras10 which was a 10 mile multi-terrain challenge carrying 35lb in a bergan. The instructors all completed the event and rose in total £3735.02 which was shared out between the Help for Heroes campaign (£1303.15) and the Royal British Legion (£2431.97).
Tteam photo, rear & front rank left to right, Rear – Dale Hawkins, Steve Cook & Scott Booth,
Front – Mark Evans & Sean Gane.
A huge well done and thank you from all the team at H4H! |
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Mrs I Jackson, who kindly donated £100 to the Help For Heroes charity.
All of us at Help for Heroes would like to say a huge thank you!
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Edmund Kornicki kindly organised The H4H Cocktail Party on 19 February at The London Scottish TA Centre. the Party and managed to raise £577.23.
All the staff at Help for Heroes would like to say thank you!
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Camp Bastion Half Marathon held in January featuring Dex Mann and Group Captain Jonathan Burr, RAF Benson Station Commander handing over a cheque for £511 to Andrew Dent, which I raised.
A huge thank you from all the team at Help for Heroes!
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Edmund Kornicki kindly organised The H4H Cocktail Party on 19 February at The London Scottish TA Centre. the Party and managed to raise £577.23.
All the staff at Help for Heroes would like to say thank you!
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Monte Carlo Rally
