Help for Heroes’ latest venture is funding the establishment of Personnel Recovery Centres (PRCtrs) across the UK.

PRCtrs will provide a launch pad to life for seriously wounded or long term sick service personnel, supporting them as they make the transition to a fulfilling future. Prior to the Personnel Recovery Centre, once patients left hospital or the Defence Medical Rehabilitation Centre at Headley Court, most continued to convalesce at home. But not all families can provide the level of support and care that is needed to allow patients to return to duty or gain a smooth transition to a skilled and supported civilian life.

PRCtrs will provide wounded service personnel with an individually tailored programme, which takes into account their particular injury and skill set. Each centre will be attached to a garrison, so that wounded service personnel can stay within a structured military environment close to friends and family, and take advantage of the garrison facilities. Although it is hoped that every soldier wounded in the service of their country will be able to return to duty, there will be many who will be destined to leave the services, and it is important that they receive assistance in this.

The Pathfinder PRCtr, the Mark Wright GC House, opened in Edinburgh on August 17, 2009, as a partnership between Help for Heroes, which is funding the project, the service charity Erskine, which provided the building, and the army, which will provide the military staff and the programme for the twelve residents. The creation of further PRCtrs, delivered as quickly as possible, is now an absolute priority for H4H and the Army. Help for Heroes is raising money to open further, fully comprehensive centres accommodating 20 residents with larger staff in Colchester, Catterick, Tidworth, Aldershot and a more permanent solution in Edinburgh.

Help For Heroes called for the people of Great Britain to help us raise money for wounded soldiers and boy, have you stepped up to the challenge!!!

All over the country, people are baking cakes, shaving heads, parachuting, walking, hiking, cycling and much much more to raise money for our wounded boys and girls. Don’t feel you have to lay on a massive event, every event is special to us and each and every contribution is valued the same way.

The Sun campaign at the end of March has raised huge awareness for the charity and we have had a staggering total of 6,000 events registered so far. Amazingly they are still coming in thick and fast, with an average of 300 events put on to raise money for Help for Heroes each week.

To all those that have done events, we would just like to say a HUGE thank you, and for those of you about to do your bit, good luck with whatever you have planned!

We understand that people give money to Help for Heroes to make a real difference to the lives of our wounded Servicemen and women.

Most of the donations and fundraising efforts come from ordinary decent people who might never have responded to a service charity before, and we want you to be able to find out exactly where your money is being spent.  

Here you can learn more about the initiatives that Help for Heroes is involved with and the projects that we support, and see just how much your help is needed and appreciated.
 
You can also see what our chief executive and co founder, Bryn Parry, has been talking about recently and you can read the newsletter that we send out to make sure that all of our supporters are up to date with the latest Help for Heroes news.

Welcome to fundraising for Help for Heroes, we are asking everyone who wants to help to get out there and do something to raise money.

You can do anything that is legal; a sponsored parachute jump, dinner party, run a marathon, swim the channel, give a day's pay, shave your head, we don't mind, as long as its legal, fun and you donate the proceeds to Help for Heroes!

Since the day it was launched, Help for Heroes has been lucky enough to receive help from an incredible group of dedicated and enthusiastic supporters.
 
The campaigns and fundraising efforts of these big hearted individuals and organisations have turned Help for Heroes from a good idea into a phenomenon.
 
By championing the charity they have raised millions and helped to spread the message of support for wounded service personnel across the UK, and we would like to say a HUGE thank you to them.
 
Read more about the amazing work done on behalf of Help for Heroes by some of our key supporters, and see how many of your favourite celebrities you can spot wearing a Help for Heroes wristband…