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2020

The Blesma News for 2020 covering news, activities and fundraising events for limbless veterans. 

  • The Resilience Sessions - Nerys Pearce and Tanni Grey-Thompson

    Nerys and Tanni
    12 September 2020

    The Resilience Sessions is a podcast series featuring compelling in-depth interviews, which bring to light life-changing and affirming experiences of Blesma veterans and the unknown personal struggles of celebrity guests who have fought to overcome hardship, including mental health difficulties, disability, devastating injury and bereavement. This podcast series is created in association with The Drive Project, who work with Blesma to deliver Making Generation R. We have already helped over 50,000 young people and first responders through the Making Generation R camp

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  • Remembering September 11th - Paul's Story

    Paul Findlay
    11 September 2020

    “Most of my family were military, but I had no interest in it growing up,” says Blesma Support Officer Paul Findlay. “Then 9/11 happened and I changed. I felt a sense of duty, that there was more to life than being selfish.” Paul joined the Royal Signals as a Radio Operator the following year, when he was just 17 years old. He completed three tours of Iraq before being caught in an IED blastin Afghanistan in 2009, which resulted in the amputation of his right leg 10 months later. “Just 19 days after the operation I was walking with the help of bars, and

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  • The Resilience Sessions - Mark Ormrod and Michael Caines

    Mark and Micheal
    9 September 2020

    The Resilience Sessions is a podcast series featuring compelling in-depth interviews, which bring to light life-changing and affirming experiences of Blesma veterans and the unknown personal struggles of celebrity guests who have fought to overcome hardship, including mental health difficulties, disability, devastating injury and bereavement. This podcast series is created in association with The Drive Project, who work with Blesma to deliver Making Generation R. We have already helped over 50,000 young people and first responders through the Making Generation R camp

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  • Meet our New Team Member - Jess Linge

    Outreach Officer for London and the South East
    8 September 2020

    Tell us a bit about your work background? Before I started working, I studied sport at college and was a member of the golf academy, which was great because it meant I played golf five or six times a week! After finishing college, I completed an apprenticeship in business. Then I moved to Essex, whereI’ve lived for the last three years. Before I joined Blesma, I worked for an accountancy firm as an Insolvency Administrator. Although my background has been varied, I believe it has added to my self development and growth. What first made you

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