By Max Hastings Last updated at 10:05 PM on 04th December 2009 A young man in shorts stands in a ward chatting to a nurse, idly practising a golf swing with a reversed walking stick. Where his left leg should be, there is instead a densely engineered substitute of steel and hydraulics. On damp Tarmac [...]
By Victoria Ward 26/10/2009 A former Army commander yesterday called for Jimmy Carr to quit for making fun of soldiers who have lost limbs. Patrick Mercer, Conservative MP and chairman of the Commons subcommittee on terrorism, said certain subjects should be instinctively “off limits” for stand-up comics. Carr told a 2,500-strong audience at the Manchester [...]
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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.
