On Saturday 22 June 2024, Wing Commander Helen Simpson, MA, BSC (Hons), the Station Commander at RAF St Mawgan and her team hosted The Veterans Charities Big Breakfast event.
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On Saturday 22 June 2024, Wing Commander Helen Simpson, MA, BSC (Hons), the Station Commander at RAF St Mawgan and her team hosted The Veterans Charities Big Breakfast event.
Read moreIn June 2023 the first of a number of hand crafted wreaths, sailing onboard HMS Blazer (off Falmouth) was uplifted by a Merlin helicopter from RNAS Culdrose.
Read moreThe Veterans Charity has announced plans to unveil a fitting memorial plaque to the first allied serviceman to die on 6 June 1944.
Read moreOn 22 March, Wing Commander Helen Simpson MA BSc, the Station Commander of RAF St Mawgan, supported by military personnel, local veterans, including representation from The Veterans Charity and three local schools, launched our international Ribbon of Poppies event across the UK.
Read moreOn 18 March East Midlands Railway (EMR) and The Veterans Charity were awarded second place in the Best Community Engagement event at the Community Rail Awards 2024.
Read moreAs part of the ideas by The Veterans Charities (Cornwall) team to help win the bid for the Falmouth national Armed Forces Day event, we included the “living” memorial that is the Ribbon of Poppies™ .
Read moreThe Veterans Charity (VC) is proud to announce a new partnership with The Royal Naval Benevolent Trust (RNBT) which has been formed after discussions were held at the RNBT’s recent annual conference in Saltash.
Read moreThe Veterans Charity invited landmarks, military bases in the South West to join our initiative to light up the darkness in 2020.
Read moreThe team at East Midlands Railway were one of a number of Train Operating Companies to join the expanded event in 2021, following on from the first event by of The Veterans Charity to keep remembrance on track through the pandemic in 2020.
Read moreThe Veterans Charity when working with Great Western Railway on the 2023 Routes of Remembrance event (based on Poppies to Paddington from 2020), we found out that the railway would be closed for improvement works, between Penzance and Plymouth meaning there would be no trains to carry the dozens of wreaths from Cornwall to Paddington Station.
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