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Find out how Fire Fighters Charity has supported service users across the UK and how you can share your story with the fire community. Click categories or regions below to filter the list of stories.

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Calum: “It’s thanks to your donations that I’ve been helped amid my recovery from cancer”

Calum Balding, a wholetime firefighter with North Yorkshire FRS, was unable to do any exercise or work for more than a year as he battled bowel cancer. Here he reveals how he was helped on his journey back to fitness…

31 Mar 2022

Emily: “Our Lottery is something so easy you can do that does so much to help others”

Emily Smith, whose partner is a firefighter with Hertfordshire Fire and Rescue Service, won our Jackpot of £25,000. Here she reveals why she pays in to the Lottery every month and her delight at discovering she’d won.

24 Mar 2022

Mark: “Within just two days I noticed my movement improved and the muscle was stronger”

Derbyshire firefighter Mark has been supported by us twice in his career, following injuries to his hip and back, and later his shoulder, and it’s all thanks to your ongoing donations.

17 Mar 2022

Guy: “There’s a mistaken belief that it’s weak to say you need help… but it’s a strength”

Thanks to your kind-hearted donations, we’ve been able to continue offering support to people like Guy Pedliham, a Station Officer with LFB, who’s been helped on several occasions with his physical and mental health.

10 Mar 2022

Alan: “Your donations and support ensured I wasn’t alone throughout the pandemic”

Alan Swales has joined our online Living Well Groups after supporting us for decades. He says they have helped him with increasing loneliness during the pandemic, as he cared single-handedly for his wife.

01 Mar 2022

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