The Gwennili Trust - Don’t Let a Disability Stop You
I’ve received an e-mail from David Harris about this excellent venture. Please check it out their Website for yourself.
I am very pleased to tell you that we have a new website www.gwennili.org.uk As well as telling you about the Trust the site features accounts of previous cruises and a [...]
You may remember that, a while ago, we published a request for readers who had experienced disability hate crime to contact Hannah Murphy from Channel 4 with a view to appearing in a film about this deeply unpleasant phenomenon.
I don’t know if any of you responded but I’ve just received this message from Hannah Murphy:
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Hello,
I [...]
Team Anglia GB, The East Anglian Regional Amputee Football Squad, has an excellent new Website.
If you were born without a limb or have suffered an Amputation or loss of use of a limb you are able to join the Region’s Elite Squad.
Compete in the Amputee National Football League. Challenge for Honours and Trophies. Meet new [...]
I’ve had a message from Anna Hedenstrom who has just moved to Sweden and has had to put her much loved adapted car up for sale.
Please click on the link beneath the photographs to see a downloadable description of the car and, if you might be interested, you can then contact Anna in Sweden at [...]
Had he lived, the eponymous inspiration of the Douglas Bader Foundation, would have been 100 today. We acknowledge his Centenary Year and feel sure that he would be proud of the new initiatives and Events that the Foundation has in place to honour it. BADER BRAVES, launched on the 10th February, is now up and [...]
A UNIQUE war hero who battled to serve his country despite losing both his legs is celebrated in an exhibition opening in Colindale today.
The RAF Museum’s Sir Douglas Bader Anniversary Exhibition, including medals, letters and log-books, marks 100 years since the famous Wing Commander’s birth and the start of his charity’s latest campaign to help [...]
By Beverly Perna
Ipswich Chronicle
Posted Feb 16, 2010 @ 06:32 PM
Ipswich —
Still emotionally raw after nearly a two-week tour of duty in earthquake-wracked Haiti, Carlos Heymann of Peatfield Street said he would do it again.
“Absolutely, absolutely!” he said without hesitation, even as he recalled the horrific conditions that met him in Haiti.
“There is no such thing [...]
You can see footage of the successful launch of the Douglas Bader Foundation’s exciting new venture, BADER BRAVES, by clicking on the link below.
Once on the British Forces News Website, scroll down to the bottom to see the Douglas Bader clip.
Please click HERE for the link.
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2010 is the Centenary Year of the birth of Sir Douglas Bader and a very important year for the Douglas Bader Foundation…
Today we are very proud to be able to announce our brand new initiative:
BADER BRAVES
Was created as a joint acknowledgement of SIR DOUGLAS BADER’s honourary Chieftainship of a Canadian Indian Tribe and [...]
Published Date: 09 February 2010
A COMPUTER game is helping amputees to programme their recovery.
Two Nintendo Wii Fits have been donated to the amputee rehabilitation physiotherapy service at Raigmore Hospital, Inverness, by the family of Garry Fraser who was killed in a road accident last year.
Mr Fraser was a keen supporter of the service and his [...]
Thank you to the following companies listed below for their continued support.
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