A tale of hope emerges from the devastation as a Paralympian finds inspiration from volleyball – and flies high as she contemplates the 2012 Games. Alan Hubbard meets Martine Wright Sunday, 10 October 2010 Fifty-two people died in the terrorist atrocities in London on the morning of 7 July 2005, eight on the Circle Line [...]
Please click HERE to see the Summer 2010 (Issue 10) Newsletter from PACE Rehabilitation. (The Douglas Bader Foundation is grateful to PACE for their ongoing support)
By Seth Robbins, Stars and Stripes European edition, Tuesday, November 10, 2009, 2009 Seth Robbins / S&S Army Chaplain (Maj.) Eric R. Meyners looks over bins filled with shoes in the chaplain’s closet at Landstuhl Regional Medical Center in Germany. Meyners says he doesn’t notice the mateless shoes, which are meant for amputees, when he’s [...]
By Shands/PIO August 20, 2009 Bria Brown, a 13 year-old Miami girl, calls herself the Queen Bee Survivor — and that she is. When she was only 6 years old, she was diagnosed with osteosarcoma, a rare, progressive form of bone cancer. The disease targets the knees, one of the fastest growing areas in the [...]
BERLIN — The world’s only recipient of two full arms in a landmark transplant operation said on Wednesday he expected to soon be able to toast the success of the procedure with a good Bavarian beer. Karl Merk, a dairy farmer from the southern German city of Munich, lost both arms in an accident involving [...]
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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.
