|
 |
| Revised on: Tuesday, 22 April, 2008 | |
3rd Bn The Yorkshire Regiment
|
|
This summer the rugby team from the 3rd Bn The Yorkshire Regiment are raising money for the very worthy 'Help for Heroes' charity in their 'Rugby for Heroes' campaign. The campaign is in two parts; 14 June 08 Wellington Tens. The team will host a rugby tournament in their home Battlesbury Barracks Warminster. This is an open invitation tournament with a £50 entry fee for £1700 worth of prize money. As well as some scintillating rugby there will also be Bars, BBQs, assault courses and loads of entertainment for all the family. If you are interested in entering a team or fancy coming along email Lee Pearce at pearce.l@hotmail.co.uk for more details. All profits from the tournament will go towards 'Help for Heroes'. 21 June - 2 July European Challenge Rugby Tour . The team will embark on a tour with a difference to raise money for Help for Heroes. On the tour they will play ten games of tens rugby, in ten different countries in ten days. Starting the tour in Warminster they will then drive between games in Toulon, Geneva, Liechtenstein, Milan, Ljubljana, Prague, Paderborn, Brussels and finally Amsterdam. Help for Heroes was launched on 1st October 2007, to do something practical for the men and women of our Armed Forces who are wounded while serving in the current conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan. Primarily they are helping raise money to provide a much needed swimming pool and gym complex at Headley Court, in practice they do much more"What is H4H all about? It's about the blokes, our men and women. It's about Derri, a rugby player who has lost both his legs, it about Carl whose jaw is wired up so he has been drinking through a straw. It's about Richard who was handed a mobile phone as he lay on the stretcher so he could say goodbye to his wife. It is about Ben, its about Steven and Andy and Mark, its about them all. They are just blokes but they are our blokes; they are our heroes. We want to help our heroes." The public reaction has been brilliant and they are well on the way to raising our initial target of £6 million but they need more. If you want to help them by supporting the rugby tour please visit the tour's just giving site at This is our chance to show we care, appreciate and support all our Servicemen and women. |