Blesma News
Latest news from Blesma, The Limbless Veterans
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The Blesma Members' Weekend is back & will take place from 9-11 June 2018
28 November 2017
The 2018 Members’ Weekend will again take place at the Chesford Grange Hotel, Kenilworth. If you would like to come along to meet old friends and make some new ones, find out what Blesma Members are up to, and to have your say on what Blesma should be focusing on to support Members, please put the date in your diary now and complete the application form below. Blesma covers the cost of Ordinary and Associate Members and their partners or carers. The 2018 Annual General Meeting will take place during the Weekend, but the formalities will be kept to a minimum as always. We very much h
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"My Remembrance Day" - Afghanistan Veteran Gregg Stevenson
31 October 2017
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Row2Recovery to host launch event at Royal Military Academy Sandhurst
24 October 2017
The Challenge is to row nearly 3,000 miles (4,800 km) across the Atlantic Ocean from the La Gomera to Antigua. More people have been into space, or climbed Mount Everest than have rowed the Atlantic. Captain Jon Armstrong RGR and Jordan Beecher, former LCpl in the Parachute Regiment who lost a leg in Afghanistan, are taking on the formidable Talisker Whisky
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"Rehab in the rainforest" - Explore how Blesma Members are volunteering in the jungles of Borneo
20 October 2017
A new partnership between Blesma and Camps International gives Members the chance to see remote and exotic parts of the world - and give something back. Wyn Austin, 29, from Grantham served in the Royal Dragoon Guards before he was injured in Afghanistan in 2010, losing his left leg above the knee when his Viking patrol vehicle was hit by an IED. Billy Drinkwater, 32, from London, served with the Royal Anglian Regiment, and lost his right eye in an IED blast in 2010. In July, the pair spent a month in Borneo with a group of teenagers
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