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  • Blesma needs you for TfL collections!

    Blesma Collection
    27 April 2016

    Blesma, The Limbless Veterans is looking for volunteers to assist with collecting donations at major London stations during the annual fundraising initiative ‘Blesma Week’. We need volunteers for the following dates and locations between 0700 and 1900hrs: Monday 06 June – London Liverpool Street station Tuesday 07 June – London Bridge station Wednesday 08 June – Canary Wharf station Thursday 09 June – Kings Cross station Friday 10 June – Stratford East station Shifts are flexible and last two

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  • Steve Gill: Road to Rio

    Steve Gill
    18 April 2016

    Blesma Member Steve Gill is hoping to be selected for Great Britain’s archery team at the Paralympic Games in Rio later this year. We catch up with him on his progress.... I used to play wheelchair basketball and thought archery was boring when I first tried it about 15 years ago. Then, a few years back, I was at a basketball session and people were trying archery in the next hall. I thought I’d give it another go, and banged a few good shots in!  I lost both my legs and an eye in a terrorist bomb attack while I was stationed in Belfast in May 1989. At the

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  • Kenneth and Barbara Pickard: "70-year marriage is a walk and (sit!) in the park"

    Kenneth and Barbara Pickard
    18 April 2016

    Kenneth and Barbara Pickard, who first met in Trowbridge Park in Wiltshire on VE Day in 1945, now have a spot to call their very own after the Friends of Trowbridge Park unveiled a new bench and floral border to honour them. Kenneth, 92, (who became an above-knee amputee in Normandy in 1944) and Barbara, 89, attended the opening ceremony with Mayor Roger Andrews. Everyone was so happy all those years ago because of the end of the war and I spoke to Kenneth because we both went to the celebrations on our own

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  • Blesma is supporting a hard-hitting play that’s due to open in London’s West End.

    Blue on Blue
    8 April 2016

    Blesma is supporting a hard-hitting play that’s due to open in London’s West End and a Member has the starring role... Darren 'Swifty' Swift is about to star in Blue on Blue, a play about a double amputee written by Chips Hardy, the dad of Hollywood star Tom Hardy, and funded mainly by The Skullcap Collective. Blesma spoke to those involved about why this is a production every Blesma Member should see… DARREN SWIFT PLAYS THE PART OF MOSS

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