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BVA's Sponsored Charity
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Birgelen Veterans Charity
We are now supporting the ‘Kinderkrebshilfe' Ophoven (Help for Children with cancer) Marienstrasse 32 Ophoven
Ophoven is the second town after Effeld. These towns fall under the governance of Stadt Wassenberg. Ophoven is the home of the ’Kinderkrebshilfe’ or the Help for Children with Cancer.
At the last AGM held on Sunday 18 September 2011, the President said:
‘‘It was my wish that we should have something that linked us to where we were because we are the Birgelen Veterans Association and if we sever our connections with Birgelen then we become just another drinking club. I would like there to be some purpose behind our meetings so that we can still feel Effeld and Wassenberg for example, are within the focal point of what we all take an interest in, but that’s me and I know that our Chairman and Secretary will make that decision wisely in due course and I look forward to hearing about it’.
Following on from this, since the closure of the Regiment in 1994, our contact with the local communities and populace have inevitably declined. Thus, not only will we be supporting a most worthy cause, it will help us to establish stronger ties and act as a tribute to all those professional servicemen and women who served there.
Since then we have enlisted the support of the local populace of Wassenberg and John Chudleigh has made contact with the home who have asked us to help where we can by sending donations. They in return have offered to keep us in the public eye by acknowledging our donations via the local press and media.
Their aim is to cut out bureaucracy and to give speedy assistance to children suffering from all forms of cancer.
They also work internationally to promote the coming together of both healthy and sick children to foster a better understanding and to ensure that sick children do not become isolated.
They give direct medical, psychological and outpatient support.
All donations go to support the primary care of the children suffering from cancer and to support their families. They also support a mobile nursing service for which no public funds are available.
Remember that this particular charity was selected for the reasons stated above and to enable us as an Association to:
Support a very worthy cause.
To enable the BVA to maintain a link with the local community
Foster the Anglo/German friendships formed over the 40 year life of the Regiment in Germany.
Our priority now as in the past, is to maintain and to sustain the charity over time and this can only be done with your generous support.
You are kindly asked to give this donation appeal your consideration and as much support as you possibly can.
Cheques should be made out to the BVA Charity Appeal and sent to the Secretary of the Birgelen Veterans Association.(His address is shown further down).
Please note that standing order forms are available from the Secretary or by clicking on our Appeal letter here and scrolling to the bottom. This is an ideal way of making a small monthly or quarterly donation; for example paying as little as £5.00/ month or quarter enables Cyril and I to sustain and to maintain our charity over time.
Additionally, if anyone has any interesting ideas on how to raise funds for our charity, they would be most welcome.
(Secretary Birgelen Veterans Association
14 Park Close, Abergavenny, Mons. NP7 5SU)
Thank you all.
Chairman
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Up-coming events and ways of raising funds for our charity will be displayed here.
Cheri Hopkins and Sara Soinak an international rider of repute have teamed up to ride for the BVA charity.
Sara has also pledged to ride for the BVA charity for the foreseeable future or at least until she returns to Thailand in 2016. A truly remarkable and generous gesture on behalf of our charity.
Their latest epic adventure to raise funds sufffered a near distaster when Cheri was caught up in a road traffic accident and knocked from her bicycle, sustaining a broken bone in her hand and severe bruising to her leg and body. Unfortunately Cheri was unable to carry on but, after accompanying Cheri home, Sara returned to their last location and resumed the tour on her own.
Click here to see Sara's blog site.
And here to read her daily journal entries.
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Details of future tours to be undertaken :-
After Mexico Sara intends to tour parts of Europe and will base herself in Germany... |
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