Bury St Edmunds Challenge Walks

The Royal British Legion
The Royal British Legion safeguards the welfare, interests and memory of those who are serving or who have served in the Armed Forces. The RBL is one of the UK’s largest membership organisations and recognised as custodians of Remembrance. They also run the annual Poppy Appeal.

The Royal British Legion helps serving and ex-Service personnel and their families. Not just those who fought in the two World Wars, but also those involved in the many conflicts since 1945 and those still fighting today.

ABF The Soldiers Charity
We are The Soldiers’ Charity. We’re here to support the men and women who put everything on the line to defend us, and our country. We’re here for them with lifetime support whether they be serving soldiers or veterans. We offer our hand to them as individuals and, when they need help, for their families. We stand by them in conflict and in peacetime, throughout their lives. The immediate help we offer is a lifeline. But we look to the future too, keeping ahead of the game, finding the best ways to give medical, technical and financial support to give the best possible outlook for the men and women who sacrifice so much for us. Soldiers are our family and the support we give makes a huge difference to their lives.

The Royal Airforce Benevolent Fund:
Is the RAF's leading welfare charity providing practical, financial and - in some cases - emotional support to all members of the RAF family, from childhood through to old age. They help with issues from childcare and relationship difficulties to injury and disability, and from financial hardship and debt to illness and bereavement.

The Royal Anglian Regiment Benevolent Society (All the 4s)
4 the boys, 4 the families, 4 the fallen, 4 ever
The Royal Anglian Regiment Benevolent Charity stated object is the relief of persons who are: in need, hardship or distress and are serving or former members of The Royal Anglian Regiment or Former Regiments and dependants of such persons. It has made grants totalling £73,000 over the past year alone, to over 250 cases.

Cases vary from assistance with prescription costs, to the purchase of walk in showers for the elderly and wheelchairs for injured soldiers. Each case is judged on its own merits.

Details announced for 2012

Walkers:
44K/26 miles register from
7.30am, start at 8.30am

25K/15 miles register from
8.30am, start at 9.30am

10K/6 miles guided Blue Badge walk, register from 9.30am,
start at 10am

Runners:
44K/26 miles register from
8.30am, start at 9.30am

25K/15 miles register from
9.30am, start at 10.30am

Everyone to have completed
the course by 19.00pm

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