2024
The Blesma News for 2024 covering news, activities and fundraising events for limbless veterans.
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Mark Ormrod Star's In Blesma's First TV Commercial
27 August 2024
Blesma, The Limbless Veterans, is excited to announce our first TV commercial showcasing our continued support for veterans.
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It’s time to take on the Channel. Again!
24 August 2024
A group of determined Blesma Members is gearing up to take on the English Channel once again. These veterans are set to repeat their record-breaking cross-Channel swim in September, marking the tenth anniversary of their original achievement. Back in 2014, Conrad Thorpe, Jamie Gillespie, Craig Howorth, and Stephen White made history as the first all-amputee team to swim the 25-mile stretch from England to France. Now, nearly a decade later, they’re preparing for another attempt. In late May, they successfully completed the mandatory qualifying swim in Dover Harbour, a key milestone i
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This is home for me
21 August 2024
Scottish charity Erskine began its journey as a hospital for limbless veterans. Today, its purpose-built campus offers a care home, assisted living, and independent living options. For much of the early twentieth century, the cacophony from the shipyards along the River Clyde would drift to the quieter Kilpatrick Hills, where a different kind of revolution was underway. The shipyards were producing a significant portion of the world’s vessels and Britain’s naval fleet during WWI. Mean
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Why Wales is leading the way?
17 August 2024
Collaboration between the Welsh Government, Welsh Health, Limb Centre leads, and Blesma is yielding significant benefits in offering improved services to injured military personnel. Health services around the UK are strained, but the provision of prosthetics across Wales highlights how collaboration and cohesion can create high-quality services. In Wales, prosthetics services operate from three Limb Centres: Cardiff, Swanse
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