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Latest news from Blesma, The Limbless Veterans
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Step Together volunteering
13 September 2020
Blesma member Elaine Corner works for the charity Step Together Volunteering, organising volunteering placements for Wounded, Injured and Sick service personnel, Veterans and their families as part of their recovery. Her role is to meet up with clients and tailor their placements to their areas of interests or future employment. Step Together help their clients use volunteering as a way to realise that they have skills which are useful beyond the Forces, help them to learn new skills and help them integrate into civilian life and the local community. Step Tog
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The Chelsea History Festival
12 September 2020
Blesma Member Harry Parker has been hard at work helping to organise this year's Chelsea History Festival, which this year will take part largely online. The past will be brought to life in an immersive mixture of digital and physical events for the Chelsea History Festival 2020. In response to the pandemic, their new website will host short films and digital content. These films will allow you to explore the hidden histories of one of London’s most historic and beautiful districts. You can
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The Resilience Sessions - Nerys Pearce and Tanni Grey-Thompson
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
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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