The Charity

Practical, direct support for our wounded.

"What is H4H all about? It’s about the blokes, our men and women of the Armed Forces. It’s about Derek, 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 charity Help for Heroes was launched in October 2007 in response to the desire of ordinary people to do something practical to help our wounded servicemen and women. As individuals we are powerless to prevent war and we feel helpless that we are unable to stop our men and women from being killed and wounded. By joining together as Help for Heroes, we are doing something practical to help; we are doing our bit.

Help for Heroes are delighted to announce that they have been able to raise the £20m pledged in March 2009 to help pay for the first of four Personnel Recovery Centres (PRCs). Work will begin immediately and the first fully comprehensive centre will open at Colchester in the spring of 2011, followed soon afterwards with PRCs at Catterick and then Tidworth. The H4H funded Erskine Pathfinder at Edinburgh will continue to operate for at least one more year while decisions are made as to how best to support the wounded in Scotland, with either an extension of that facility or the creation of a new one closer to the Edinburgh garrison. Further centres may well be needed in future.

Help for Heroes has raised GBP 47.8 million since inception.