The Sandbag Times Issue No: 39
The Veterans Magazine
The Veterans Magazine
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Veterans Breakfast Clubs<br />
THE LEIGH ARMED FORCES AND VETERANS BREAKFAST CLUB'S 'GREAT CHRISTMAS GET<br />
TOGETHER'<br />
Veterans and serving members of the armed forces enjoyed a special Christmas breakfast yesterday, Saturday.<br />
Members of the Leigh Armed Forces and Veterans Breakfast Club, who meet every Saturday from 10am to noon at <strong>The</strong> Thomas<br />
Burke Wetherspoons pub on Leigh Road, hosted their 'Great Christmas Get together' which gave past and present military<br />
workers the chance to see each other before the big day tomorrow, Monday.<br />
MP for Leigh Jo Platt and armed forces charity Shoulder<br />
to Soldier's founder Linda Fisher were also in attendance.<br />
Founded by ex-serviceman Ian Parkinson, the club allows<br />
armed forces personnel, veterans and their family<br />
members mutual support and offers the opportunity to<br />
socialise with people from similar backgrounds.<br />
Members have praised the weekly event as they share a<br />
similar sense of humour and outlook on life as well as<br />
reminding them of the social lives they used to enjoy<br />
during their service days.<br />
<strong>The</strong> event on Saturday was supported by charities<br />
Forever Manchester and <strong>The</strong> Jo Cox Foundation.<br />
SANDBAG TIMES AFVBC OFFER<br />
As many of you, in the AFVBC world may know,<br />
the <strong>Sandbag</strong> <strong>Times</strong> is now available as a<br />
printed edition. Unlike the online edition, we<br />
cannot offer the printed copies for free as we<br />
have to pay for expensive printing costs and<br />
obviously, the postage. However, we have done<br />
some number crunching and we are pleased to<br />
say we can send out packs of 5 magazines for<br />
£20.00. Unfortunately, we regret that we cannot<br />
send out single copies at this time, hopefully<br />
that will change in the near future as the SBT<br />
grows. <strong>The</strong> prints are of exellent and<br />
professional standard with 250gsm covers and<br />
130gsm pages with stunning colour and<br />
graphics. If you would like to order monthly<br />
magazines for your club or send in entries, then<br />
please email us at info@sandbagtimes.com<br />
This printed copy will be used to support the<br />
Tommy Atkins Veterans Centre in Worcester.<br />
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