Young hooker Curtis Langdon met a number of residents during the trip, including 95-year-old former Royal Marines commando George Simms
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Young hooker Curtis Langdon met a number of residents during the trip, including 95-year-old former Royal Marines commando George Simms
Read moreA long-serving former senior Royal Air Force officer has been appointed chief executive of Broughton House, the Salford home for ex-servicemen and women.
Read moreCricket legend Andrew ‘Freddie’ Flintoff, who is the ambassador for N Brown Group’s Jacamo menswear brand, officially launched the blazers at Broughton House.
Read moreThe wartime heroics of Broughton House veterans are described in a new book compiled by a volunteer at the Salford home for ex-servicemen and women.
Read moreBroughton House, the Salford home for ex-servicemen and women, has strengthened its board with the appointment of solicitor Hilary Meredith as a trustee.
For more than 30 years, Hilary has dedicated her career to the welfare of armed forces service personnel, their families and military veterans.
Read moreDefence Secretary Gavin Williamson praised Broughton House for the care it provides to veterans and for its vision for the future during a visit to the Salford care home for ex-servicemen and women.
Mr Williamson, who was accompanied by Bolton West MP Chris Green, met with veterans, staff and board members during his tour and learned more about Broughton House’s redevelopment plans.
The two-acre site is to be transformed into a Veterans’ Care Village in a £14m scheme.
Read moreA former Royal Marine inspired his colleagues in the real estate finance team at NatWest in Manchester to climb Snowdon in aid of Broughton House, the Salford care home for ex-servicemen and women.
Fifteen members of the team climbed the Welsh peak and completed a 35-mile cycle ride across Wirral to raise £10,000 for Broughton House.
Those taking part were aged 23-60 and included the bank’s north west head of real estate Heath Thomas along with directors, regional managers, assistants and graduates.
Read moreGreen-fingered staff from public-private partnership Urban Vision have transformed a rundown courtyard garden at Broughton House, the Salford home for ex-servicemen and women.
A team of 13 volunteers from Urban Vision spent almost 60 hours revamping the neglected garden.
Urban Vision is a joint venture between Salford City Council, Capita and Galliford Try. It delivers a range of property, engineering and planning services across Salford to boost development and regeneration.
Read moreThe oldest resident at Salford’s Broughton House care home for ex-servicemen and women has celebrated his 99th birthday.
Friends, present and former staff and supporters of Broughton House attended a party for Oswald Dixon, whose cake was decorated with an RAF flag, badges and model aeroplanes.
Oswald came from Jamaica to join the RAF as an engineer during the Second World War. He remained in the service until he retired, teaching new recruits.
Read moreBroughton House has launched an Armed Forces Support Hub to help ex-servicemen and women transition successfully to civilian life.
The Hub is expected to be up and running by the end of the year and will be a one-stop shop offering help to veterans with health, welfare, housing, social and employment issues.
Andy Burnham, the Mayor of Greater Manchester, attended the launch and pledged £5,000 to the Hub from his Homelessness Fund.
His fund is supporting efforts to prevent veteran homelessness, and at the launch he said it was unacceptable that those who have served the country were sleeping rough.
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