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  • Blesma's Virtual All Levels Yoga: Session 3

    Yoga
    5 June 2020

    The Blesma Activities team have been hard at work, continuously thinking about new ways to bring their activities to all Members on a virtual level. During these times it is so important to focus on both physical and mental wellbeing. Yoga is the perfect balance of the two. As such, the Activities Team have worked with an amazing PT and Yoga coach, Lizzie Croxford, to bring you a yoga session that is suitable for all our Members. Lizzie has worked with Blesma in the past on the Couples fitness and lifestyle course, which took place in Mallorca last year with h

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  • Meet fellow Blesma Members: Stella Clarke

    Stella Clarke
    4 June 2020

    When Stella was interviewed for this piece she was 94 years old and was one of Blesma’s longest-serving Members, having being injured 76 years ago as a civilian I was 13 years old when WWII broke out. My father was a Regimental Sergeant Major, so my five siblings and I knew a lot about Army life. We weren’t children – we were his troops! We’d come home from school, polish our shoes and line them up ready for his inspection. We learned all sorts of things; my father even taught me how to read a blueprint! During the war, I worked at a pen f

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  • The Resilience Sessions - Carol Vorderman and Si Harmer

    Si and Carol
    2 June 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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  • Dunkirk 80: Remembering Bert Evans

    Bert evans alongside a Wormhoudt Memorial
    31 May 2020

    Blesma Member Bert Evans, who died in 2013 aged 92, was one of the last survivors of the massacre at Wormhoudt, near the Franco-Belgian border, during the withdraw to Dunkirk 80 years ago this year.  Bert was serving with D Company 2nd Battalion the Royal Warwickshire Regiment (2 Royal Warwicks) which, on 19 May 1940, came under a devastating air attack near Tournai, suffering many casualties.    A week later the Royal Warwicks were ordered to hold the village of Wormhoudt to buy time for the evacuation of thousands of soldiers of the B

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