Roaring Trade
INSPIRATION for business ventures often comes from unlikely sources but with a prologue featuring Paul Newman and a parental pep talk, the story of Red Lion Foods stands out from the corporate crowd.
However, ...
Combat Stress scoops charity honour
COMBAT Stress has beaten four other charities for the title of Rewards for Forces Charity of the Year 2014, earning it a £5 donation from every Rewards for Forces card sale for the next 12 months. In the first ...
Ex-Servicemen make motorcycle trek for veterans
ON 1 August, ex-Servicemen Pete Bray and Harry Glover, from 22 SAS and 4/73 Special OP Battery, will embark on a never-done-before 15,000-mile motorbike journey beginning at Buckingham Palace and taking them ac...
The rally of their lives
OVER 100 participants set off from Dunsfold Park, home of BBC’s Top Gear, on 27 June for a 3,000 mile Rally for Heroes, which aims to raise £100,000 for the UK’s longest-serving military charity, SSAFA; the ral...
Your chance to be a movie star!
MILITARY charity BLESMA, which supports limbless veterans, is joining forces with a casting agency to offer injured soldiers the opportunity to be a TV or movie star.
Mad Dog Casting will offer paid-for role...
Record-breakers make a beeline for John O’Groats
THE first ever straight-line journey from Land’s End to John O’Groats was completed this month by the Beeline Britain team. Arriving at John O’Groats, the UK mainland’s most northerly point, after an epic voyag...
Veterans’ charity to benefit from cycle challenge
THREE colleagues are cycling 880miles from Land’s End to John O’Groats in the name of charity.
Veterans' charity Stoll, which provides housing, health and well-being activities, outreach and a monthly drop-i...
Grant boost for Scottish veterans
VETERANS suffering from mental health issues in Scotland are set to benefit from a unique charity partnership.
The Forces in Mind Trust (FiMT) has awarded a grant of more than £100,000 to Shoulder to Shoulde...
Service families’ funding boost for veterans’ charity
FOR the past twelve months, the UK community of NATO Joint Force Command Brunssum International Club have been raising funds for their chosen charity Once, We Were Soldiers (OWWS), which provides much-needed su...
Army family attends Downing Street reception
AN Army family from Wiltshire who lost their son to Sudden Unexpected Death in Epilepsy (SUDEP) have attended a reception at 10 Downing Street hosted by Samantha Cameron for the charity SUDEP Action.
The eve...