{"id":66,"date":"2010-09-30T14:44:57","date_gmt":"2010-09-30T13:44:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.theactivitypeople.co.uk\/?p=66"},"modified":"2014-10-17T10:48:35","modified_gmt":"2014-10-17T09:48:35","slug":"help-for-heroes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"\/blog\/help-for-heroes\/","title":{"rendered":"Help for Heroes"},"content":{"rendered":"

Raise money for soldiers by taking part in extreme sport…….. <\/strong><\/p>\n

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Paratrooper, Ben Parkinson, is the most seriously injured British soldier to survive his wounds in Afghanistan. Yet on the ninth anniversary of the 9\/11 attacks, the lance bombardier, who lost both legs and suffered brain injures during active service, jumped 15,000ft in a charity parachute jump.<\/p>\n

Inspired by the bravery of paratrooper, Ben Parkinson, in the run-up to Remembrance Sunday<\/a> on November 14th<\/sup>, The Activity People<\/a> will be making a \u00a31 donation to ‘Help For Heroes’ (http:\/\/www.helpforheroes.org.uk<\/a>) with every group booking activity form now up until Remembrance Day.<\/p>\n

Rebecca Rudkin, business development manager at The Activity People, said: \u2018The real-life heroism of our troops in Afghanistan is inspiring to many of us. Parachute jumps, bungee jumps and the other extreme activities we offer are nothing compared to the day-to-day heroism of our troops on the frontline.<\/p>\n

\u2018We hope to do our bit by raising some money for our brave troops,\u2019 said Rebecca. \u2018We will make a donation of \u00a31 on every group booking an activity before Remembrance Sunday, they don\u2019t necessarily have to do the activity before that date, just book it before then.<\/p>\n

\u2018We are also hoping that many of the groups will take the opportunity to raise money for Help For Heroes<\/a>, by sponsoring their activity or collecting money on the day. We have every possible activity for them to choose from, and each member of the group can book onto the charity event as individuals making organisation less of a headache. So, how about a parachute jump, paintballing, karting, rally or off-road driving, quad biking, dirt buggy racing – you name it we have the activity,’ said Rebecca.<\/p>\n

With British Forces fighting in Afghanistan the money raised in the annual Poppy Appeal<\/a> is more significant than ever before.\u00a0 Since 2003 the Royal British Legion<\/a> have provided financial help to 10,000 veterans of the Iraq and Afghanistan operations – and are currently investing \u00a320 million in Personnel Recovery Centres to care for the wounded of current conflicts.\u00a0In 2009, the legion raised \u00a3107 million – including a record\u00a0\u00a331 million for the Poppy Appeal – so well worth supporting.<\/p>\n

The Legion spent over \u00a3110 million on its work in 2009. \u00a0\u00a0If you want to book an activity, click here<\/strong><\/em><\/a> and quote HFH1.<\/p>\n

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The Activity People are making a \u00a31 donation on every group booking an activity before Remembrance Sunday. Rebecca Rudkin, The Activity People’s Business Development Manager, tells us why and how we can do our bit………….<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66"}],"collection":[{"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66"}],"version-history":[{"count":20,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66\/revisions\/77"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}