Bakers & Larners choose Douglas Bader Foundation as their Charity of the Year for 2011
All at THE DOUGLAS BADER FOUNDATION are extremely grateful to BAKERS & LARNERS for their support and look forward to working together in the year ahead.
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Cinema Chooses Bader Story to Mark its Milestone Birthday
The GERRARDS CROSS Cinema is celebrating its 85th Birthday! To celebrate this achievement – unusual in cinema history with so many cinemas closing or changing their use, it will be showing “Reach for the Sky”. If you are or could be in the Gerrards Cross area on Tuesday 12th October, you could combine an enjoyable [...]
New Tring Mayor Pledges Support to DBF
New Tring Mayor Elected Cllr Roxanne Ransley, elected as Tring Town Mayor on May 10th 2010, (Tring is the home of the HQ of The Douglas Bader Foundation), has pledged her support to our charity throughout her year of office. The Foundation will benefit from a number of the Mayors fund raising intiatives that will [...]
Douglas Bader's Grandson Fundraising Venture
CHARLEY AND LAURA’S VIETNAM FUND-RAISING TRIP I’m very proud and delighted to report that Charley Bickers, step-grandson of Sir Douglas Bader, will be undertaking an exciting and ambitious fund-raising adventure to raise funds for the Douglas Bader Foundation. On the 22nd May, Charley and his girlfriend, Laura, will set off to Vietnam and follow in [...]
DBF Chosen by Phil Packer
Today Phil Packer who suffered severe spinal cord injuries in 2008 and has gone on to raise an amazing £1.3 million for charity, announced his plans to walk the Virgin London Marathon to support 26 charities. The Douglas Bader Foundation is delighted, extremely grateful and very honoured to be one of this truly inspirational man’s [...]
DBF Announces Licensing Deals
2010, Sir Douglas Bader’s Centenary Year… …is a very important year for the Douglas Bader Foundation. We have several exciting developments planned to mark this auspicious year. One is our first venture into licensing: we have agreements with collectible company 288 Group under their Westminster Press and Casco divisions, agreements with Bradford Exchange and with [...]
The London 10k Run-A personal achievement by Andy Kneen
Andy`s British 10 km run on Sunday 12th July First of all, I hope this article does not put anyone off the idea of doing a 10km run (!), but rather acts as some sort of small incentive to sign up for one next year and raise some funds for the Douglas Bader Foundation. I [...]
Ray Blackwell – An inspiration
We are very grateful to Ray Blackwell for the following article. Also for the very welcome donation he raised for the Douglas Bader Foundation with his efforts. Thank you, Ray – you’re an inspiration. You would have thought at nearly 71 I would be pursuing more sedate pastimes like gardening etc, instead of crazy things [...]
