Normandy 2009 appeal

[Jack]

It has to be our duty to do this.


Thanks for the post Neil and this is something that I have thought about for a while.

I don't ever read newspaper but someone gave me this story last month - think it was in the Telegraph...so I read it and I sat here and thought something needs to be doen about it.

Mrs Beckett told me to get off my arse and get something done about it so I called the Friends of the Normandy Veterans Association and left a message. They did kindly get back to me but I haven't had the time of late to sit down and work something out - something HMVF can do.


So here is what I think we should/could do:

We (HMVF)should 'adopt' some veterans that are paid for by us. For every £400 we can raise/donate we can get these heros to Normandy - this isn't a big ask.

I am publically going to state that I will personally donate £400 to get one of these guys there. I do not expect folks to follow that but we can as a group find another £400 to make sure that another vet gets to Normandy. Perhaps we give ourselves a target to reach - £4000 = 10 vets.

HMVF has a bank account and can post the amount we recieve with a daily running total. All of this can be done.

I am no organiser in this sense so we need to setup some sort of steering group or something like.

I will give this some more thought but I am not around again today but please discuss what we can do or ideas that we can use to make sure we make a difference and to make sure we give something back.

Lets do something that we can all be proud of.


Jack.

[rosie]

Well done guys

Agree with you Jack about adopting Veterans, I will donate some money (would love to match yours Jack but alas cant) please can you let me know bank details as soon as its all up and running