Our BADER BRAVES Winter Wonderland Weekend at the wonderful Calvert Trust, Kielder in Northumberland, which was held last weekend from the 27th – 29th January, was a great success as already reported. The photos and stories are beginning to come in… We are very grateful to BRAVE, Camron Hall, and his family for being the [...]
The BADER BRAVES Winter Wonderland Weekend, held at Calvert Trust, Kielder, Northumberland over the weekend (27th – 29th January), was a sparkling success in every way. From the frost on the ground to the enjoyment of the Braves and their carers and families. There was an excellent response to this event resulting in a lovely [...]
CALLING ALL BRAVES! There are a few places remaining on our fantastic Bader Braves Winter Wonderland Weekend at Calvert Trust, Kielder, Northumberland from Friday 27th – Sunday 29th January 2012. This promises to be a wonderful experience with plenty to do for the whole family as well as presenting the opportunity to experience the superb [...]
A final reminder that the BADER BRAVES Winter Wonderland Weekend at Calvert Trust, Kielder, Northumberland is being held next weekend from Friday 27th to Sunday 29th January. We’ve had an excellent response to this exciting event and can just squeeze in a couple more families. It promises to be a great weekend and, with so [...]
The BADER BRAVES Young Aviators’ Days have been an enormous success since they became part of the Douglas Bader Foundation strategy to help children with amputations and other disabilities and their families. Last year we held 9 of these immensely popular events and this year, despite the Olympics and the Paralympics, we intend to extend that. We are [...]
THE Douglas Bader Foundation is going into 2012, the year of what will be our 30th Anniversary, on a high note. Not only have we been in existence now for almost 30 years following the charity’s inception after the death of Sir Douglas, 30 years ago in September this year (no mean feat for a [...]
CALLING ALL BRAVES! There are a few places remaining on our fantastic Bader Braves Winter Wonderland Weekend at Calvert Trust, Kielder, Northumberland from Friday 27th – Sunday 29th January 2012. This promises to be a wonderful experience with plenty to do for the whole family as well as presenting the opportunity to experience the superb venue [...]
Sadly the final Bader Braves Young Aviators Day scheduled for 8th October at Caernarfon Airport in North Wales has, for the third time this year, fallen victim of poor weather. With drizzle and high winds forecast for the day the organisers had little choice other than to call of the event. Paul Asbridge, CFI at [...]
Braves have a Wonderful Day At White Waltham Thank goodness Sunday 28th August provided much better weather for our Bader Braves Young Aviators than Sunday 17th July had when torrential rain and high winds forced the abandonment of the event. Although not a blisteringly hot or particularly sunny day, weather conditions were pretty good for flying [...]
Braves Golden Day at Glorious Goodwood Once again Goodwood Aerodrome provided not just a superb venue for our Bader Braves Young Aviators Day on 21st August but also great weather, maybe not quite as hot as last year but sunny and bright, just right for a very successful flying day. Youngsters were again treated to flights [...]
Simon Finlay, a professional photographer, has kindly allowed us to publish photographs he took at the excellent Bader Braves Young Aviators Day at Seething Airfield, a previous World War 2 Bomber Station, on Sunday 7th August. There are quite a lot of images so we’ve split them into 3 separate Galleries. They are on the [...]
A Super Day at Seething Despite warnings of poor weather for our Bader Braves Young Aviators Day at Seething Airfield, a previous WW2 bomber station that had been home to 63 B-24 Liberator aircraft of the USAAF 448th Bombardment Group (Heavy), Sunday 7th August dawned bright and sunny and continued in that mode throughout the [...]
Blazing Bodmin makes for Brilliant Bader Braves Day Following the disappointing weather of last weekend that forced the abandonment of our White Waltham event (now rearranged for Sunday 28th August), waking to a bright sunny morning in Bodmin was a huge relief. 31 Bader Braves assembled at the Cornwall Flying Club based at Bodmin Airfield [...]
All at the DOUGLAS BADER FOUNDATION are extremely grateful to BAKERS & LARNERS of Holt for their support and look forward to working with them in the year ahead.
BADER BRAVES Young Aviators Day: Sunday 17th July at the West London Aero Club, White Waltham Airfield I’ve just received the following notification of the postponement of the above event from Keith Delderfield, the Douglas Bader Foundation Director of Operations (known to most of you already, I’m sure!). Please note the proposed new date. “I [...]
The Kinloss Press Office have kindly sent us 4 more photographs which have been added to the BADER BRAVES Young Aviators Day at Kinloss Gallery. You can click HERE to go straight to the Gallery … …or, if you haven’t already read the report on the Bader Braves Young Aviators Day courtesy of The Moray [...]
After two weekends when the weather has left a little to be desired the Bader Braves Young Aviators at Kinloss were treated to a super day made all the better by clear blue skies and brilliant sunshine. Once everyone had arrived and been taken through the safety briefing for the day the first treat was [...]
Saturday 18th June, 07.30, Perth in the heartland of Scotland, weather – NOT GOOD!! After a quick check with event co-ordinator, Iain Waghorn of The Scottish Aero Club a decision was made to delay the final decision as to whether or not our Young Aviators Day could go ahead until conditions were checked at Perth [...]
For the second weekend the weather spoiled our Young Aviators Day; this time Caernarfon Airport was the target for high winds, low cloud and poor visibility!! It was clear on Friday evening that Saturday 25th June may be, in the words of Paul Asbridge, CEO of The Eagles Wings Trust & CFI at Caernarfon Airport, [...]
Here is a report from Keith Delderfield, the DBF Director of Operations, who was at Kielder with the Bader Braves for the Calvert Trust Adventure Weekend. It certainly sounds as though all had a wonderful time and we hope that reading this and seeing some of the photographs and the video will inspire others to [...]
Here is a report from Keith Delderfield, the DBF Director of Operations, who was as RAF Waddington on the 4th June for the first in a programme of 9 Bader Braves Young Aviators Days for 2011. As you will see, RAF Waddington did the Braves proud and a great day was had by all. We [...]
BADER BRAVES “YOUNG AVIATORS DAYS” We now have the confirmed dates and locations of BADER BRAVES Young Aviators Days. We have increased last year’s programme considerably and are delighted to be able to offer 9 of these very popular and successful events for 2011. We have deliberately chosen airfields in different sectors of the British Isles so that we [...]
BADER BRAVES “YOUNG AVIATORS DAYS” We now have the confirmed dates and locations of BADER BRAVES Young Aviators Days. We have increased last year’s programme considerably and are delighted to be able to offer 9 of these very popular and successful events for 2011. We have deliberately chosen airfields in different sectors of the British Isles so that [...]
We are delighted to announce the first confirmed dates for our BADER BRAVES Young Aviator Days programme for 2011. These events were so popular last year that we are hoping to double the programme to hold at least 10 Young Aviator Days in 2011. Many of last year’s supporting airfields have come up trumps again [...]
Had he lived, our eponymous inspiration, Group Captain Sir Douglas Bader, would have been 101 today. We salute his birthday and feel sure that he would be proud of the charity set up in his name and with the new initiatives and Events that we have in place. BADER BRAVES, a Douglas Bader Foundation initiative [...]
Calling all BADER BRAVES! ACTIVITY WEEKEND Friday 10th to Sunday 12th June CALVERT TRUST “CHALLENGING DISABILITY THROUGH OUTDOOR ADVENTURE” Kielder Water – Evening We have just had the dates confirmed for a BADER BRAVES Activity Weekend at Calvert Trust Kielder, Kielder Water, Hexham, Northumberland, NE48 1BS. This is a wonderful opportunity for disabled youngsters and their families or carers to [...]
Calling all Bader Braves and their families and carers! We now have some dates and locations for this year’s Flying Days confirmed. Please go to the Bader Braves Page on the Website for details. You can “fly” there by clicking on the aeroplane! N.B.: We also have the weekend of the 10th – 12th June [...]
As we start a new year with a refreshed Website and our exciting new Bader Braves initiative rapidly gaining momentum, it is good to have this endorsement from David Cameron, our Prime Minister.
The Douglas Bader Foundation apologises to its supporters for the recent absence of its Website. As you can see, the Website had been refreshed and largely redesigned and we hope you’ll agree it’s a lot better for it! We are especially pleased with our brand new BADER BRAVES pages and extremely grateful to the excellent [...]
Following the excellent Bader Braves Young Aviators Day hosted by the West London Aero Club at White Waltham, we received the following wonderful accolade from Jessica Soanes, aged 11. We think that Jessica speaks very eloquently for many who may spend most of their time in a wheelchair or are otherwise physically restricted, about the [...]
RAF Waddington provides great day For Bader Braves Young Aviators. Even the weather was great on Saturday 24th July when ten Bader Braves along with their families, gathered at the entrance to RAF Waddington for the Bader Braves Young Aviators Day. It was a pretty impressive start as everyone was led in convoy to the [...]
BADER BRAVES is an initiative of the DOUGLAS BADER FOUNDATION (Charity Commission Registration Number:800435) The BADER BRAVES Young Aviators’ Day at the West London Aero Club, White Waltham, took place on Sunday 18th July and, as at the same venue last year, was a wonderful event thoroughly enjoyed by all who attended. “Just wanted to say [...]
A write up following the excellent BADER BRAVES FLYING DAY at Goodwood Aero Club on Sunday 13th June where a (very) good time was had by all and, again, we were extraordinarily lucky with the weather. As always, we are extremely grateful to everyone involved for all that went into giving the Braves and their [...]
The BADER BRAVES Flying Day at Caernarfon Airport was a fantastic success and a wonderful day out for all the children and their families. We hope that the following will give you a flavour of what the Flying Days are all about and encourage you to attend of our other Flying Days, which still have [...]
Exhibition: Sir Douglas Bader Centennial Exhibition, Royal Air Force Museum, Hendon, until March 31 2010 The RAF Museum in Hendon has launched a Douglas Bader centenary exhibition, celebrating the inspirational pilot and disabled campaigner’s life with a selection of rarities from the RAF archives. As an added bonus, Sir Richard Branson has recorded a podcast [...]
You can see footage of the successful launch of the Douglas Bader Foundation‘s exciting new venture, BADER BRAVES, by clicking on the link below. Once on the British Forces News Website, scroll down to the bottom to see the Douglas Bader clip. Please click HERE for the link.
JOIN THE TRIBE!! 2010 is the Centenary Year of the birth of Sir Douglas Bader and a very important year for the Douglas Bader Foundation… Today we are very proud to be able to announce our brand new initiative: BADER BRAVES Was created as a joint acknowledgement of SIR DOUGLAS BADER‘s honourary Chieftainship of a [...]
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THE BADER CUP was started in 1987, and is now widely recognised as the largest National Mixed Greensome Stableford Golf Tournament in Europe.
John Southwick founded the Tournament to raise funds for The Douglas Bader Foundation. He still organises the competition.
Please see the Bader Golf Page and the nested Bader Cup pages on the left hand menu bar.For more information, a brochure or to enter and help to raise money for a good cause, please visit John Southwick's dedicated Website:
www.thebadercup.co.uk
Art to Fly, a specialist aviation artwork Website, was created by Pat Barnard, long-time friend of Sir Douglas, as a way of supporting the Douglas Bader Foundation disabled children’s Flying Days.
You can find out more about Art to Fly and the aviation paintings and drawings, aircraft prints and books – all signed by famous WW11 pilots and carefully selected and attractively priced for aviation art collectors - by visiting the Website:
www.arttofly.orgAs Art To Fly is a non-profit organization, 100% of the profits of any sales go to help disabled children experience the joy of flight through the Douglas Bader Foundation’s “Bader Braves” Flying Days programme, details of which can be found on this Website.
