2020
The Blesma News for 2020 covering news, activities and fundraising events for limbless veterans.
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Tim regains his freedom during lockdown
10 June 2020
Blesma Member and double amputee Tim has regained his freedom and independence after Blesma provided him with a wheelchair. Tim, who joined the Royal Artillery at 16, has been having difficulties using his prosthetic legs, leaving him unable to complete essential food shops or walk his dog. “At the minute, my prosthetics are not fitting right and it hurts if I walk on them for too long. Limb centres can’t help me right now and the wheelchair I had was too heavy, making it unsuitable to lift into my car as I’ve had many operations on my right wrist,” said the 4
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Blesma takes tea with the Spinal Injuries Association
10 June 2020
On the 1st June Blesma attended the Spinal Injury Associations’ (SIA) daily virtual café. BSO for the South Pat Donnachie was invited to share his knowledge and experience around all things Blesma with a group of the SIA’s support officers, beneficiaries, and representatives from Limb Power – a charity who exist to engage amputees and those with limb impairments in physical activity, sport and the arts . The discussion was co-ordinated and led by the SIA’s Support Network Officer for London, Lady-Marie Dawson-Malcom. Lady-Marie was an excellent
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Supporting Research
9 June 2020
As a respected organisation that supports the Service disabled, Blesma is often asked to support research projects. Every year, BSO (Prosthetics) Brian Chenier attends numerous meetings that look at future and on-going research topics. This offers an opportunity to represent Blesma and the Membership at the early or scoping phase of research projects, as well as influencing the direction of others. When it does support projects, Blesma’s input ranges from supporting the concept of the research to identifying possible participants. Before information about a project finds its w
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BFBS Academy: Digital CULTure
8 June 2020
BFBS Academy Invites You to #jointhecult with Its New Online Course ‘Digital CULTure’ BFBS Academy has launched ‘Digital CULTure’, an online course and digital community aimed to help service leavers and others in the military community gain the skills they need to secure a job in the digital industry or expand their own business through social media – which is more important now than it has ever been.
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