Find out how The Fire Fighters Charity has supported beneficiaries 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.
Thanks to your kind-hearted donations, we were able to help Alison Waldron – a nurse who’s married to a West Midlands firefighter - on our Covid Recovery Programme, as well as with her mental health. Becci Dickens, an Admin Support Officer with Shropshire FRS, has received our help for both her physical and mental health. She’s now hoping to spread the word round more non-uniform staff like herself. Will Cashmore was supported by us following an injury at work in 2016. Just a few years later, his dad was also helped following a shock accident, and he’s now preparing to run the London Marathon for us to say thank you. Retired firefighter Andrew Billingham recently spent a week at Harcombe House following a string of major health issues, thought to have been sparked by a difficult battle with Covid-19. Steve Flint, who works for Staffordshire FRS, has been supported by the Charity - both digitally and face-to-face - ever since being involved in a near-fatal motorcycle accident last year.
Alison: “You were finally the light at the end of the tunnel after 26 months of hell”
Becci: “It’s a huge reassurance knowing I can pick up the phone and there’ll be somebody there”
Will: “Everyone supporting this Charity made my dad’s recovery – as well as my own – possible”
Andrew: “I needed to get away from everything and the Charity helped me do that”
Steve: “It can feel like you’re another number in hospital, but the Charity is so personal”
