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Armed Forces &<br />
Veterans Breakfast Clubs<br />
www.afvbc.net<br />
WEBSITE<br />
Uxbridge AFVBC Raises Awareness For Veterans Suicide<br />
Do you tweet?<br />
Iain Henderson of the Uxbridge Armed Forces<br />
& Veterans Breakfast Club is trying to boost<br />
awareness of Veterans’ suicide.<br />
<strong>The</strong> proposal is to have a #TwitterStorm next<br />
Charity Tuesday 21 August 2018 from 8am.<br />
Iain says “I am trying to boost the message<br />
about #VeteranSuicide #VeteransSuicides “<br />
All you have to do is include those hashtags<br />
as above in posts on Twitter and all social<br />
media.<br />
<strong>The</strong>re is also a petition you can find on Iain’s<br />
Twitter @VCTrustee<br />
It asks that in all deaths the coroners have to<br />
consider if the victim was a veteran and if it<br />
was a case of suicide. So we can establish<br />
better the scale of the problem.<br />
Please share far and wide<br />
You can also of course contact your MP and<br />
get them motivated.<br />
First Oakham AFVBC Club A Great Success<br />
Local residents Mark & Tracey Taylor hosted<br />
the first Armed Forces & Veterans Breakfast<br />
Club on Saturday 11th August 2018 at the<br />
Grainstore Brewery in Oakham.<br />
Mark an Armed Forces Veteran himself has<br />
only been out of the Army less than 3 years<br />
having completed 26 years’ service and<br />
decided on settling down with Tracey and<br />
his family in Oakham on completion of his<br />
full service. Tracey who currently works in<br />
Adult Services within the local area remarked<br />
that It is evident that there really is a large<br />
service and veteran community within<br />
Oakham and it was too good an opportunity<br />
to miss to try and acquaint likeminded folk<br />
together in a formal meet within the community.<br />
<strong>The</strong>re are no subs or joining fees. All<br />
veteran or service personnel will ever have to<br />
pay for is their own breakfast.<br />
Mark & Tracey decided that this would be a<br />
good opportunity and spoke to the<br />
Grainstore Brewery who kindly agreed to<br />
host the Breakfast and the rest was then<br />
simply down to word of mouth via various<br />
social media platforms and Rutland Radio<br />
which then gathered real interest from then<br />
on in. Read more here...<br />
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