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Members Bulletin Summer 2017 Download Bulletin Members’ Newsletter Summer 2017 How to put the ‘fun’ into Stronger fundraising From Blesma Week to racing ducks, than ever the Association has before been very busy p24 The 2016 Annual Report shows the Association is in very good health Fancy giving something new a go? Try one of Blesma’s bespoke activities and give yourself a new lease of life p22 Ask not what Blesma can do for you... The Association’s volunteers help in all sorts of ways. Want to join in? p17 Inside: The Blesma Awards 2016 winners Hit the trails with Simon Taylor in the Autumn issue of Blesma Magazine Available in October WELCOME efg Bulletin Summer 2017 The highly successful Members’ have the same experience. Members spreading Weekend 2017 took place in the word on the worth of the Programme from June, and we are already planning their own perspective would help greatly. for the 2018 Weekend. We’ll get There is some really important information in the details to you in the Autumn the Benefits Spotlight on p34, especially on the Bulletin. We held the AGM during disregard of War Pension for care assessment. that Weekend, so it was a full couple of days. Liz Watling is keeping a close watch on the The Trustees also used the opportunity to state of benefits, and social care is now high hold a quarterly meeting, and decided to invest on the political agenda as a result of the General in an extra Support Officer for the centre of Election; we expect to be consulted. We are also England. Heather Nicholson will release the full keen to see how the refreshed NHS England plan in due course but, in essence, the current mental health provision for veterans performs two regions of Eastern and Midlands will become this year. There needs to be improvement. three: Eastern, Midlands and West, each with To end, I return to the Annual General their own Support Officer. This also ties in with Meeting and the Report made by the Trustees. the emphasis on more assistance to the most A summary is included in this Bulletin. If you infirm and those in later life, in their own homes wish to have your own full copy, please contact and communities. The Support Officers are Sue Stokes at Chadwell Heath and she will on the front line, so an extra pair of hands will send you one. The full report can also be found reap benefits for the membership. on the Blesma website (www.blesma.org). As you may be aware, Charley Streather In short, Blesma is in a good position, well able BSO (Midlands) has left Blesma, having retired to carry on doing what it does best, and we can on the grounds of ill health. Charley made a afford to do it better whenever the need arises. huge difference to the lives of Members and Barry Le Grys, Chief Executive Widows in his area, and will be very much missed. We thank him for all he has done and wish him all the very best for the future. IN THIS ISSUE The Activities Programme is pushing ahead ANNUAL REPORT 04 but we would like to see the interest shown AWARDS 10 turn into a wider attendance. Members seem PROSTHETICS UPDATE 14 keen to participate but don’t quite get there. The MENTAL HEALTH 18 feedback is that Members need a little more ACTIVITIES 22 encouragement and peer support to remove FUNDRAISING 24 any doubts they may have as the events get BRANCH NEWS 26 closer. Comments from those who do attend are BENEFITS 34 highly positive and we would like more people to SUMMER 2017 / 03 ANNUAL REPORT Annual Report 2016: In Summary SECURITY In 2016, we continued to observe and Our eight Area Support Officers and the monitor developments in prosthetics body of volunteer Welfare Representatives provision to our Members across the UK. provide Blesma’s comprehensive ‘Welfare By working at an individual level, advocating Service’ and are the main source of for those Members who require support information regarding how our Members locally as well as campaigning for changes fared during the year. Their work is nationally, improvements have been made. supplemented by a further Support Officer, For those with Service-attributable Blesma’s Support Officer (Prosthetics), who amputations, the Veterans Prosthetic Panel focuses on working closely with the NHS: continues to provide an excellent process for at the working level with the Limb Service funding components in England. Eligible to resolve individual Members’ prosthetic Members in the devolved administrations issues; and at the strategic level in have similar access to state-of-the-art contributing to policy development for prosthetics via slightly differing mechanisms. provision of prosthetics to amputees. Significantly, Blesma has been instrumental The Support Officers work closely with in the development of the Complex Prosthetics Veterans UK to resolve War Pension and Clinic at Headley Court for those veterans Armed Forces Compensation Scheme issues who may be referred back to the Defence for individual Members, and with the Defence Medical Rehabilitation Centre Headley Court Recovery Capability where they visit new from the NHS for the management of amputees in Queen Elizabeth Hospital complex prosthetic issues. Birmingham and visit Members undergoing We have also played a significant role in the rehabilitation and/or transition to civilian life. Veterans Trauma Network in England, which Blesma also holds a ‘clinic’ at the Defence provides access to a regional network of 10 Medical Rehabilitation Centre, Headley NHS Veterans Trauma Centres where NHS Court. The Director of Membership Services, and military experts in trauma can provide working closely with the Chief Executive, targeted clinical plans to a cohort of patients decides how welfare grants are distributed who have struggled with the existing system, and to whom, following guidance from particularly those with complex injuries Trustees and long-standing practice. In 2016, suffered in blasts from IEDs which require the Blesma Membership Services team: multiple operations and expert care after they have left service, but many reported • Made 1,609 home visits and 158 other visits fragmented delivery and delays. This support • Made 1,176 individual grants to 757 could be life-changing for those Members recipients who are eligible for this treatment. Residency at The Elizabeth Frankland 04 / BLESMA BULLETIN ANNUAL REPORT Moore Home continued to fall, as anticipated, in 2016. The demand from the membership has been shifting from residential care at a single Blesma Home to care assistance in Members’ own homes for some time. The Trustees decided that the moment had come to move resources from the single Blesma Home to supporting the wider membership in their own communities. Blesma remains committed to through-life support and this is now delivered in a different way, on a more individual basis. In 2016, the Home cared for 18 residents and 192 visitors. It was closed before the end of the year and sold in 2017. IDENTITY Our programme of ambitious, challenging and enjoyable activities plays an essential role in helping Members to improve their physical and mental wellbeing. Activities promote confidence and self-belief, and provide a social hub where Members interact and expand personal horizons. In a sense, they replace the old Branch structure that did so much for earlier generations of Members. A major achievement for those who participate in our robust activities is social interaction; the camaraderie that is part of any Blesma activity, which shows that pain and discomfort are not unique but problems that can be shared and, in a sense, alleviated. We followed up on last year’s pilot study by St Mary’s University, Twickenham which found ‘Members experienced a feeling of accomplishment, enhanced subjective wellbeing, and a sense of belonging following the event’ by carrying out a Members’ survey to enable us to get more in-depth feedback on the whole Activities Programme. Many Members described the activities as ‘life changing’ and told us that they would like more activities to involve their families because they too are affected by the impact of learning to live with limb loss. In response SUMMER 2017 / 05 ANNUAL REPORT to this feedback, we have included more • Adaptive skiing in Solden, Austria – activities for families in the 2017 programme, our 31st year and are progressing well with our research • Blesma Golf – and working with the On into the impact of traumatic amputation Course Foundation at home and abroad on the family, which is backed by the Forces • Increasingly popular competitive cycling in Mind Trust and The National Lottery. events and ‘recreational’ rides in the USA, The activities on offer ranged from Europe and the UK, including the Belgium cycling and horse riding to fishing and Battlefield Ride to commemorate the adaptive Winter sports; all arranged within Centenary of the Battle of the Somme a social framework. Our pervading ethos • Winter Wilderness Expedition in Colorado of Member supporting Member is central • Sub-aqua in the Maldives to the Programme, supplemented by Blesma • The Hartford Ski Spectacular at staff and volunteers. Breckenridge Rocky Mountains Photography retains its position as perhaps • SRUK – a UK version of the US SoldierRide the most popular activity amongst Members (run by our friends The Wounded Warrior of all ages and abilities. Digital photography Project ((WWP)) in the USA) – was a courses in subjects from basic instruction special ‘hands across the sea’ cycling to wildlife photography in Mull, and to event sponsored by Blesma and The WWP. studio work and urban photography in The Deputy Lord Lieutenant of Hampshire London were enjoyed by Members with started the ride, which finished six days different levels of mobility.
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