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The Resilience Sessions Series 2 - Judith & Stephen
29 December 2020
The Resilience Sessions is a podcast that brings together injured veterans from Blesma and a well known public figure, to share their stories of overcoming challenge of all kinds. Through these conversations our guests chat to one another about their experiences, sharing how they have navigated their ups and downs, finding often surprising common ground, and showing that what is most personal is often most universal. The Resilience Sessions grew out of the Making Generation R campaign, which has trained injured veterans to tell their stories to over 100,000 fr
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Step Together- Elaine's story
28 December 2020
Blesma Member Elaine Corner was medically discharged from the Army in 2012 after becoming a below knee amputee following a motorbike accident. As she wasn’t working, she engaged with Step Together Volunteering, a charity which helps injured service personnel, veterans and their families among other groups to find volunteering opportunities in their local community. They found Elaine placements with Dorset & Wiltshire Fire & Rescue giving road safety talks in schools and with Operation Nightingale on an archaeological dig. When she heard that Step Toge
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Novice Kayaker Nerys Completes Triple Challenge!
27 December 2020
Nerys Pearce will have to wait until 2021 to attempt to realise her goal of becoming the first person paralysed from the chest down to swim the English Channel. “I got hypothermia nine hours into my Channel swim in October, and although I’ll be back next year, failing to complete my challenge didn’t sit well with me,” said the 39-year-old former combat medic. The swim was the last event in Nerys’ Triple Endurance Challenge, which had already seen her complete 105 continuous miles using her wheelchair and hand cycle 100 miles around the Berkshi
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Christmas message for Blesma Members by Deputy Chaplain of the Fleet Martin Evans
25 December 2020
2020 has been an unusual and challenging year. With many of us unable to get together as we might in ordinary times, Deputy Chaplain of the Fleet Reverend Martin Evans has recorded a Christmas message for our Members. You can find a shorter Blessing and Prayer from the Reverend on Blesma's YouTube channel here.
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