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Raised so far
Gift Aid1
| Total Raised online: | £6,231.80 |
| Total Raised offline: | £3,760.20 |
| Fundraising target: | £15,000.00 |
| Name | Amount | Gift Aid |
| Andrew Stevenso... | £50.00 | £0.00 |
| Anonymous | £5.00 | £1.25 |
| Jonquil Marchan... | £15.00 | £3.75 |
| Alicia Stevenso... | £20.00 | £5.00 |
| Jonquil Marchan... | £202.00 | £50.50 |
| Mark Spittle | £45.43 | £11.36 |
| Mark Spittle | £25.00 | £6.25 |
| Mark Spittle | £15.00 | £3.75 |
| Mark Spittle | £40.00 | £10.00 |
| Charles Leigh-P... | £20.00 | £5.00 |
The Colonel’s Fund
Hello and Welcome from Iron Guardsmen (Nijmegen Company Grenadier Guards)
What's happening?
In the summer of 2011 an elite group of Guardsmen from Nijmegen Company Grenadier Guards will cycle the 1,407 km from Land's End to John O'Groats to raise money for the Colonel's Fund.
Who are Nijmegen Company?
Nijmegen Company is all that remained of the 2nd Battalion, Grenadier Guards when it was placed into suspended animation in 1994. The Company is responsible for a large amount of Ceremonial Public Duties in London as well as ensuring Guardsmen are ready to deploy on Operations with the 1st Battalion. Indeed, some Guardsmen went from the Forecourt of Buckingham Palace to a combat patrol in Helmand in under 7 days in January last year! Nijmegen Company takes its name from the Battle Honour awarded to the Battalion in 1944 during Operation Market Garden when they took terrible casualties taking the bridge at Nijmegen.
Who has been selected?
The following members of the Company will be taking part in Exercise Iron Guardsmen:
- Maj King-Evans
- Lt Stafford Allen
- Lt Stevenson
- Lt Foster
- LSgt Hall
- LSgt Harris
- LCpl Dawson
- LCpl Harper
- LCpl Thompson
- LCpl Marchant
- Gdsm Cox
- Gdsm Spittle
- Gdsm Wyatt
Group(s):
Charity bike ride
About The Colonel’s Fund
The Grenadier Guards have been on three operational tours in the last three years and during the last tour in Afghanistan, the Regiment suffered 5 fatalities and 32 injured, as well as an indeterminate number of psychiatric injuries, some of which may take over a decade to appear. We can confidently predict that there will be a marked increase in the number of welfare cases over the medium to long term and that we will be unable to resource them properly from our existing charitable funds, which are already fully committed.
The next ten years promise to make extraordinary demands on the Regiment – serving Grenadiers and their families and particularly those members of the Regiment who have left through disability or work-related illness. The Colonel’s Fund Grenadier Guards is designed to support, alleviate and improve the prospects of all those Grenadiers subsequently in need. Specifically it will enable the Regiment to: support the families of those killed in action by promptly responding to problems of bereavement and hardship. support those wounded or injured on operations, particularly those who have had to leave the Army; to assist in finding them new employment and to help them become active family and community members. support the families of those seriously wounded or injured in prolonged recovery situations.
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