2019
The Blesma News for 2019 covering news, activities and fundraising events for limbless veterans.
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The Charles Russell Speechlys Omnathlon 2019
26 June 2019
The Charles Russell Speechlys Omnathlon was the biggest of four fundraising events put on by the company to raise money for Blesma so far in 2019. With Blesma becoming their charity of the year for 2019, the firm has pledged a full calendar of fundraising events and challenges to raise money for Blesma. On the weekend starting 22nd of June 2019, Blesma Members alongside CRS staff from Cheltenham, Guildford and London offices, walked, ran, cycled, swam and sailed the full 180 miles down The Thames Path. With the source starting in the Cotswolds and ending at The Thames Bar
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Blesma Member Martin Hewitt scales Everest
31 May 2019
Martin Hewitt lives by the Parachute Regiment's moto "Ready For Anything", so he prepared for Avalanches, Ice Storms, and Everest's death zone, the one thing he hadn't factored in was people. It’s a bit of an understatement to say that there are plenty of challenges to overcome when attempting to scale Mount Everest. There are potentially deadly avalanches. There are huge crevasses, hundreds of feet deep, where just one incorrectly placed foot can result in a fatal fall. There are the perils of acclimatisation in the ‘death zone’ above 8,000m. There are frostbite-inducing ice storm
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Behind the scenes at the making of Making Generation R podcast sessions
2 May 2019
Blesma launches a series of Making Generation R podcasts that pairs six Members with celebrities for frank, funny and moving conversations. The Blesma Members involved in the Making Generation R programme have, for the last few years, been taking their life stories of overcoming adversity into schools. Now, their inspiring tales are being shared with an even wider audience through a series of podcasts. The Resilience Sessions podcasts pair a Member with a well-known public figure, and the results have been a moving and thought-provoking series
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Meet the Blesma London Marathon team
26 April 2019
This year, eight people will brave the epic 26.2 mile challenge that is the London Marathon all raising vital funds for our wounded veterans. Meet our Blesma fundraisers: Blesma Member Jack Cummings Jack, 30, from Oxford First Marathon In 2010, Jack was serving with the 101 Engineer Regiment on his second tour of Afghanistan as a bomb disposal specialist when an IED was triggered and exploded. Jack lost both his legs and spent one month in a coma. Like many injured veterans, Blesma we
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