By JONATHAN MCEVOY Jonnie Peacock, Britain’s own Blade Runner, has already shaken Oscar Pistorius’s cage. It was on a mountainside near Christchurch, New Zealand, during the Paralympic World Championships there in January. ‘Oscar saw the rust around the cable car and he didn’t really like being on it,’ says Peacock. ‘I was shaking the car. He [...]
By: Julia McWatt, South Wales Echo Jul 27 2011 At the age of 16 Andrea Evans caught meningitis, which resulted in kidney failure and the amputation of both her legs. Julia McWatt hears her story of survival and how she’s now helping a New Zealand earthquake survivor WHEN Andrea Evans became severely unwell as a [...]
By Catherine Kolonko Bacterial meningitis caused Kyla Winters of Carmel Valley to lose both her legs to amputation but she can walk again and still considers herself lucky. In the summer of 2009, she was with a group of friends when she suddenly felt awful and told them to get her to a hospital, quick. [...]
In 2012 blade runner Oscar Pistorius aims to make history by becoming the first disabled athlete to compete in both Olympic and Paralympic Games. Keme Nzerem went to meet him. With a clutch of gold medals to his name South African athlete Oscar Pistorius is known as the blade runner. Oscar Pistorius was born 24 [...]
A PARALYMPIC hopeful has called on a council not to close the leisure centre where he learned to swim. Lyndon Longhorne, 15, from Crook, County Durham, yesterday handed a 4,000 signature petition to Durham County Council, which is consulting over plans to close the town’s leisure centre. If we hadn’t been able to go to [...]
Sean Ahmadi holds the front tire of a red bicycle steady between his knees. “Hop on,” he tells Jamie Schanbaum. The 22-year-old college student swings a leg over the bike, sliding first one, then the other prosthetic foot into plastic cages that hold her feet on the pedals. As the tires start rolling, Ahmadi runs [...]
A BRAVE tot who had his arms and legs amputated after being struck down with meningitis has finally been allowed home. Little fighter Harley Slack was nearly killed by the disease but made a remarkable recovery to the delight of his family. The four-year-old, who has been in hospital since May, is now allowed out [...]
Uncle of meningitis amputee toddler stole £315,000 from her trust fund to pay for holidays… leaving just £239 By Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 1:34 PM on 26th November 2009 Ellie Challis lost her arms and legs after contracting meningitis aged just 16 months. The uncle of a little girl who lost her arms [...]
Meningitis charities are warning parents to be aware of the symptoms this winter. Nerys Davies tells Health Editor Madeleine Brindley how the deadly disease almost claimed the life of her youngest daughter Amber JULY 1, 2005 is etched on Nerys Davies’ memory – it is the day her youngest daughter almost died after she contracted [...]
Another fantastic effort by Olivia Giles of 500 Miles. The Douglas Bader Foundation wishes her (and all her fellow walkers) the best of luck in this great fund-raising endeavour for such a good cause. A quadruple amputee is urging people to take part in a charity walk to help raise money to buy artificial limbs [...]
Published Date: 20 August 2009 Thursday 3.25pm A WARNING has been issued to parents, urging them to be on their guard against meningitis as their children return to school after the summer holidays. Charity Meningitis UK says the close confines of a classroom put youngsters more at risk from the deadly brain bug. There are [...]
(What a shame that it should be down to fund-raising to provide the money for prosthetics that should surely be available through the NHS. These prosthetics are, after all, required as the direct result of an illness that Harley was unlucky enough to contract in the first place. It seems to be adding insult to [...]
Thursday, May 7, 2009 Limber: Harvey joins his fellow dancers at the ballet barre This is Harvey Phillips, who lost both legs and an arm to meningitis – but that hasn’t stopped him from taking up ballet. The four-year-old had his limbs amputated at just nine months and his mother, Lisa, thought he would never [...]
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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.
