Homes fit for heroes

A FORMER Army barracks near Salisbury Plain is being transformed into a housing project with homes on a unique veteran campus. The site of former Erskine Barracks at Wilton, near Salisbury, is being turned int...

Soldiers adopt children’s charity

A DORSET and Wiltshire-based children's hospice organisation has been selected as a British Army regiment's charity of the year. 22 Engineer Regiment, based at Perham Down in Tidworth, picked Julia's House a...

Employment boost for Service veterans

INJURED ex-Forces personnel have been given the chance to reuse the skills they learned in the Services and gain increased independence by a charity's manufacturing division. Royal British Legion Industries ...

Gurkha veterans’ firm foundations

ONE year on from the earthquake that left swathes of Nepal in ruins, elderly Gurkha veterans are rebuilding their lives with support from a younger generation of soldiers in the Himalayan foothills. Nearly 1...

Marvellous May for veteran Lamin

INJURED ex-guardsman Lamin Manneh has a hectic month ahead of him after making the Invictus Games squad and being selected as an ambassador for the 2016 Mobility Roadshow. Gambian-born Lamin, who lost both l...

Dream break for military families

ARMED Forces charity Give Us Time treated 97 military personnel and their families to an all-expenses paid holiday in Bulgaria. The trip to the Balkan Jewel Resort was the second organised by the group, whi...

Veterans star at charity screening

TWO of the soldiers whose experiences inspired Kajaki: The True Story were present for a charity screening of the film. Stu Pearson QGM and Alex Craig attended the showing, which was organised by veterans’ o...

Enlist to serve with Team Blesma

ARE you looking for a new challenge? Blesma, the national charity for all limbless Service men and women, their widows and dependants, is looking for enthusiastic fundraisers to take on a multitude of challengi...

Re-enactors required for cadets’ challenge

MILITARY re-enactors can mark the 100th anniversary of the Battle of the Somme by signing up for a charity challenge in aid of ABF The Soldiers’ Charity. Organised by Devon Army Cadet Force and running from ...

In the frame

BUDDING photographers are being invited to pick up their cameras and capture Army-related images for a new charity calendar. ABF The Soldiers’ Charity has launched a competition to find impactful images from...