A man from London is confronting his fear of open water and swimming the English Channel to raise funds for three charities including Blind Veterans UK, the national charity for vision-impaired ex-Service men and women.
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A man from London is confronting his fear of open water and swimming the English Channel to raise funds for three charities including Blind Veterans UK, the national charity for vision-impaired ex-Service men and women.
Read moreLed by none other than Michael Wilson, the Queen’s Guide to the Sands, the Cross Bay Walk across Morecambe Bay takes place on June 11 – and SSAFA, the Armed Forces charity is looking for people to help raise funds to continue its work in north-west England.
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Read moreAs arduous challenges for SSAFA, the Armed Forces charity go, climbing a mountain ranks quite near the top. Taking on a Three Peaks Challenge is a step beyond that. So how do you top – literally – these?
Read moreLlandudno’s Miss Alice has walked ten miles around the town to raise funds for Blind Veterans UK, the national charity for vision-impaired ex-Service men and women.
Read moreVolunteers young and old have given over 300 hours of their time to help Blind Veterans UK, the national charity for vision-impaired ex-Service men and women, restore the graves in the charity’s two cemetery plots in Brighton.
Read moreA team of twelve amateur cyclists have taken on and conquered the Alabaré Race to the Sun, an epic 500km ride across Andalucía in southern Spain, encompassing 8,600m of climbs and category 1 ascents.
Read moreStaff from award-winning building services consultants Anderson Green undertook the gruelling Yorkshire Three Peaks (Pen-y-ghent, Whernside, and Ingleborough) for SSAFA, the Armed Forces charity and donations have already climbed above £2,000.
Read moreA team of eight serving and veteran Grenadier Guards, five of whom have life changing injuries, will take to open canoes and traverse 700km of the Yukon River in Northwest Canada to raise funds for veterans’ mental charity Combat Stress, SSAFA, the armed forces charity, and The Grenadier Guards Colonel’s Fund.
Read moreAndy McIntosh – Chairman of SSAFA Lanarkshire and late of the Cheshire Regiment – had good reason to enjoy the view across the Trossachs from the summit of Ben A’an, especially given that the average time to ascend its 1,512 feet (461 metres) is around two hours or so, and Andy did it in just over 100 minutes.
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