Blesma News 2015
The Blesma News for 2015 covering news, activities and fundraising events for limbless veterans.
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Fundraiser Takes to the Skies for Blesma!
12 May 2015
Mandi Grant has taken a 'leap of faith' with her first ever skydive, to raise vital funds for Blesma, and the Alzheimer's Society. Mandi has raised an incredible £500 for each of her chosen charities - far exceeding her target of £250 for each!
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Meet the incredible Adaptive Grand Slam team
6 May 2015
After Martin Hewitt was left partially paralysed from a Taliban to the chest he made the decision: to attempt the most arduous and dangerous challenge on the face of the Earth, the Grand Slam. A treacherous challenge that involves summiting the highest peak on each of the seven continents, as well walking unsupported to both the North and South Poles. The Beginnings. Accompanied by Pr
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Vodafone UK support for armed forces community
5 May 2015
As part of their initiative “Giving Something Back”, Vodafone signed up to the “Corporate Covenant” – a voluntary pledge businesses make to show support for the Armed Forces Community. As part of the initiative employees are encouraged to give 3 day’s volunteering a year to causes close to their hearts, to raise funds on behalf of forces and ex-forces charities and to join a Give As You Earn scheme. Staff at their Headquarters in Bracknell set the ball rolling there and invited the Association to come along and talk to their staff whilst at the same time raising funds through a Raff
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Bert Goddard, 1899-1971 – a personal recollection of a wartime amputee
29 April 2015
Peter Goddard is a Senior Lecturer in Media and Communications at the University of Liverpool. Blesma are currently working with the University on their 'Life and Limb' exhibition which looks at the impact of traumatic limb loss on soldiers of the American Civil War and the advances of prosthetics since then through the mediums of art, poetry, literature and photography along with original research. As a young child, one of the most distinctive features about my grandfather, Bert Goddard, was that he only had one leg. So the prospect of the ‘Life and Limb’ exhibition called
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