2025
The Blesma News for 2025 covering news, activities and fundraising events for limbless veterans.
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Blesma Members Take on Ski Adventure in the French Alps
24 March 2025
Thrill-seeking Blesma Members have hurtled down an Olympic bobsleigh course in an adrenaline-busting finale to the annual ski trip in the French Alps. Fastened in securely and under expert guidance, eight intrepid daredevils experienced speeds of up to 50mph as they raced around the track’s stomach-churning bends. The 16-strong party, led by
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Blesma Statement on NHS England
13 March 2025
We are aware of the announcement today by the Prime Minister regarding his plan to abolish NHS England. We, like others, are waiting for more detail to be released about how and when any changes will take place. We will work with the relevant Departments to ensure that our Members needs are understood and that services remain in place to meet those needs into the future.
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"Achieving dreams is possible"
24 February 2025
Since she decided to have her leg amputated in 2019, Lexi Chambers has been on a long journey. But you can't help thinking that this is just the beginning Turning the daunting into the achievable is what Lexi Chambers does best, and the five-time Guinness World Record holder has just gone to even greater lengths by propelling her standard wheelchair the lengths of Britain! For the whole of September and into October, the former Royal Signals soldier pushed her wheelchair almost 1.000 mi
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Freak accident puts epic challenge on hold until 2025
4 February 2025
A plan to sail around Great Britain in 50 days – which was two years in the making – ran into trouble after a freak accident on the second day. Blesma Members Talan Skeels-Piggins and Neil Baxter, both experienced sailors, had to abandon their detailed itinerary when their 34-foot boat was hit by a wave that sent Neil crashing across the cabin, breaking his hip. A coastguard helicopter was scrambled but, with conditions deteriorating, it had to abort its mission to winch Neil, a below-knee amputee, clear so he could get treatm
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