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Help for Heroes starts at Butlins

A massive Blow for Heroes event will take place at the Butlins Mineworkers Championship in January — and you can be a part of it too.

Butlins
 

The Help for Heroes fund raising year will start in Skegness in January at the Butlins Mineworkers Championship.

Butlins

Spearheaded by Jon Handley of TOR Group uniform company, it will start with the Blow for Heroes in Reds Theatre on Saturday 21st January from 7.30pm – 8.30pm.

The unique gathering will hopefully see hundreds of players getting together to perform as a massed band on a new work commissioned by Butlins for the event.

First in series

A series of other exciting projects are in the pipeline to give support to the wonderful charity throughout the banding year and there will be a full range of merchandise in aid of the fund and through the new website.

Help for Heroes is all about doing your bit and ‘Blow for Heroes’ is a wonderful example of people having a great idea, rallying support and having a great deal of fun whilst raising money for a wonderful causeBrynn Parry

Wonderful example

Brynn Parry CEO and co-founder of the charity said: "Help for Heroes is all about doing your bit and ‘Blow for Heroes’ is a wonderful example of people having a great idea, rallying support and having a great deal of fun whilst raising money for a wonderful cause."

Further details

For further details go to:

www.blowforheroes.com

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