Military group fundraising
At Blind Veterans UK we are a military family, supporting thousands of ex-Servicemen and women with sight loss for life.
But we can only help them with the support of our extended military family - cadets, serving personnel and veterans.
We are proud to have you stand with us to help ensure no blind veterans has to face the battle with sight loss alone.
In addition to raising vital funds to ensure our veterans can access life changing services and equipment, fundraising gives opportunities for cadets to organise activities and events as part of their proficiency learning, while celebrating and commemorating key military dates and other dates that have significance to them.
Fundraising and learning more about the impact of your efforts helps all members of our military family to feel connected with each other and their communities and gives meaningful opportunities for comrades to come together.
Try out these activities with your military group
Organise an activity to coincide with key military dates or explore our ideas to plan an event or challenge at any time.
VE Day 80 - Do it for veterans
Celebrate 80 years of freedom while giving blind veterans the freedom to lead independent and dignified lives.
Armed Forces Month
Commemorate and celebrate our forces during June while raising vital funds to support our veterans.
Planning to remember
Plan an activity or event to ensure the fallen and those left behind are not forgotten.
Soldier's blindfolded fundraising challenge
When serving soldier Nephi Attree decided to take on a fundraising trial, he wanted to do it blindfolded in honour of vision-impaired veterans.
Nephi, who is from Essex, wore a blindfold for 48 hours. He completed a 5K run, a 30-minute lane swim and a climbing session, and raised hundreds of pounds for our charity.
Nephi, who is an Exercise Rehabilitation Instructor with the Royal Army Physical Training Corps, said:
“When I found out about Blind Veterans UK and the way that they literally transform lives, it was an easy decision to support them. The cause really stuck with me.
"I’m interested to gain a new perspective on the challenges that the vision impaired experience on a daily basis."
Even more fundraising ideas
- Walk, hike or run – set up a route, get sponsorship and ask a local café or pub to lay on some grub at the end.
- Marathon – you don't have to go the 26.2 miles. Organise an aerobics, dancing or any other kind of marathon event. Ask people to pay an entry fee and see if local businesses will sponsor it or provide refreshments.
- Football – organise a five-a-side tournament or hold a sweepstake on a big match's results.
- Penalty shoot-out – talk to your local team about donating some signed kit and charge players a small entry fee to beat the goalie.
- Swimming – set yourself a distance target and get people to sponsor you per length.
Become a military sight loss champion
We are launching a new scheme and are looking for proactive Service personnel and Cadet Forces to become our 'military sight loss champions' and make a real difference to the lives of vision-impaired veterans.
"Blind Veterans UK have been absolutely magnificent. They’ve given me all sorts of gadgets which mean I can stay independent at home. Simple things like a magnifier so I can use the little sight I still have to read the post."
Blind veteran
You can help us to turn blind veterans' lives around
We believe that no one who served their country should face sight loss alone
of blind veterans across the UK still need our support
blind veterans were referred to our rehabilitation services.
blind veteresn where supported via telephone or online through our beneficiery support hub.
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