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18th February 2012
Major Land, Air And Sea Fundraiser For Inverness Cottage For Disabled Veteran
The Scottish Veterans' Garden City Association (Inc.)
To provide and maintain Cottages for disabled Ex-Service and Merchant Navy Personnel
Patron: Her Majesty the Queen
Founded 1915
Houses for Heroes
THREE staff members and supporters of Scottish Veterans’ Garden City Association (SVGCA) are to undertake a land, sea and air fundraising event to raise £150,000 for a new cottage near Inverness for a young disabled ex-Serviceman and family. Fundraisers will parachute into Perth, others march from Inverness to Edinburgh Castle and a third group will swim the Corryvreckan.
The entire event, going under the name ‘Houses for Heroes’, will see Ann Hamilton, from the Edinburgh HQ, (who resides in Bonnyrigg) leading a group of the Army’s Personnel Recovery Unit, based at Edinburgh, with other serving personnel march the 270 miles from Inverness, via Aberdeen and Perth, to Edinburgh Castle, 28 April – 6 May.
Peter Minshall, SVGCA CEO, with ex-Service colleagues is to swim a mile across the Gulf of Corryvreckan, off Jura, in July. He said: “It’s no walk in the park but we are united in our aim to raise funds to house disabled ex-Service personnel.”
Caroline Wilkinson, also from the Edinburgh HQ, will parachute into Perth with colleagues from the Royal British Legion Scotland, in June.
In the last 18 months, Houses for Heroes has met 47 from 48 requests for housing in Scotland from young soldiers severely wounded in Iraq or Afghanistan but there are many more on the waiting list. Those with severe injuries require specially adapted properties when they are discharged from the Personnel Recovery Centre in Edinburgh.
Falklands veteran William Sutherland said: “I have been in a Scottish Veterans’ Garden City Association house for over ten years now and love the stability and tranquillity it provides me, after living on an emotional roller coaster following active service in the Falklands War.”
Chairman Lt Colonel Richard Callander said: “More suitably adapted houses are required to accommodate these veterans, all of whom have had traumatic life-changing experiences. We ask the Scottish public to support our appeal.”
You can donate online via www.housesforheroes.org.uk or on you can donate on your mobile by texting HHFH15 then your amount to 70070.
For more information and images, please refer to our website www.housesforheroes.org.uk
Registered Office: New Haig House, Logie Green Road, Edinburgh, EH7 4HQThis company is limited by Guarantee. Registered in Scotland No. 10795The Association is recognised as a Charity by the Inland Revenue. Charity No SC003174Post a Comment
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