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BVA's Sponsored Charity
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Birgelen Veterans Charity
We are now supporting the ‘Hilfe fur Krebkranke Kinder’ (Help for Children with cancer) Marienstrasse 32 Ophoven
Ophoven is the second town after Effeld. These towns fall under the governance of Stadt Wassenberg. Ophoven is the home of the ’Kinder Krebs Hilfe’ or the Help for Children with Cancer.
At the last AGM held on Sunday 18 September 2011, the President said:
‘‘It was my wish that we should have something that linked us to where we were because we are the Birgelen Veterans Association and if we sever our connections with Birgelen then we become just another drinking club. I would like there to be some purpose behind our meetings so that we can still feel Effeld and Wassenberg for example, are within the focal point of what we all take an interest in, but that’s me and I know that our Chairman and Secretary will make that decision wisely in due course and I look forward to hearing about it’’.
Following on from this, since the closure of the Regiment in 1994, our contact with the local communities and populace have inevitably declined. Thus, not only will we be supporting a most worthy cause, it will help us to establish stronger ties and act as a tribute to all those professional servicemen and women who served there.
Since then we have enlisted the support of the local Burgermeister of Wassenberg and John Chudleigh has made contact with the home who have asked us to help where we can by sending donations. They in return have offered to keep us in the public eye by acknowledging our donations via the local press and media.
Their aim is to cut out bureaucracy and to give speedy assistance to children suffering from all forms of cancer.
They also work internationally to promote the coming together of both healthy and sick children to foster a better understanding and to ensure that sick children do not become isolated.
They give direct medical, psychological and outpatient support.
All donations go to support the primary care of the children suffering from cancer and to support their families. They also support a mobile nursing service for which no public funds are available.
You are asked to give us as much support as you possibly can to maintaining the generosity that you have all shown in the past by helping and supporting this charity.
Cheques should be made out to the BVA Charity Appeal and sent to the Secretary of the Birgelen Veterans Association.(His address is shown further down).
Please note that standing order forms are available from the Secretary and these are an ideal way of making a small monthly or quarterly donation; for example paying as little as £5.00/ month or quarter enables Cyril and I to sustain and to maintain our charity over time.
Additionally, if anyone has any interesting ideas on how to raise funds for our charity, they would be most welcome.
(Secretary Birgelen Veterans Association
14 Park Close, Abergavenny, Mons. NP7 5SU)
Thank you all.
Chairman
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Up-coming events and ways of raising money for our charity will be displayed here. |
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