After six long years, former Paratrooper Chris Lewis – walking the UK coastline for SSAFA, the Armed Forces charity and raising hundreds of thousands of pounds in the process – is nearly at journey’s end.
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After six long years, former Paratrooper Chris Lewis – walking the UK coastline for SSAFA, the Armed Forces charity and raising hundreds of thousands of pounds in the process – is nearly at journey’s end.
Read moreYately retirement village, Hampshire Lakes, recently hosted a Big Brew Up for SSAFA, the Armed Forces charity, to say ‘thank you’ for the donation of specialist exercise equipment.
Read moreDon’t miss out – 80% of the tickets available for the first ever Massed Bands of His Majesty’s Royal Marines’ tour of six UK cities in September have already been sold!
Read moreSince 2014, around £200,000 has been raised for SSAFA at Chepstow Military Race Days, enabling the UK’s oldest tri-service charity to carry on its life-changing work for serving and former Armed Forces personnel, and their families, just as it has since 1885.
Read moreOn Sunday 9 July, artist Tim Godden made the 300 mile journey from his home in North Devon to meet 99 year old WWII veteran Bill Gladden in Suffolk.
Read moreSSAFA, the Armed Forces charity, attended the Armed Forces Day Event at JP Morgan Chase, in Bournemouth, to raise awareness of the charity and build bonds within industry.
Read moreScots former gunner Dan McNeil – on a fundraising walk around the entire UK coastline for SSAFA, the Armed Forces charity – is making his way through Wales.
Read moreThomas Kenning, from Market Rasen, and stationed at RAF Odiham, returned from a four month tour in Mali, and thought his life was over.
Read moreA Hampshire man is aiming to lose ten stone and run the London Marathon in 2024 for Blind Veterans UK, the national charity for vision-impaired ex-Service men and women.
Read moreIt was perhaps less a welcome in the hillsides, and more a walk along a stretch of the M48, but crowds of well-wishers and supporters saw former Paratrooper Chris Lewis back into Wales on the Severn Crossing this afternoon (July 5) on the last leg of this adventure.
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