Healing Hands Network receives £3,450 donation
Therapists raise funds to treat
ex-servicemen and women in the UK

Gary Hackett, MD of
Guild Press Ltd, presents a cheque for £3,457 to Healing Hands
Network director Sue Stretton.
The Healing Hands Network (HHN) were delighted to receive a
cheque for over £3,450 presented to them by Guild Press Ltd,
organisers of the Holistic Health exhibition supported by Balens.
The money - which will be used to fund the charity's Forces Project
in the UK - was raised at this year's events, in particular through
donations made at Holistic Health's Chill Out Zone and through the
sale of exhibition catalogues.
The donation was presented to Sue Stretton, director of the
Healing Hands Network, by Guild Press' Managing Director Gary
Hackett, who is also patron of the charity.
The HHN (www.healinghandsnetwork.org.uk) is a small UK-based
self-funded charity founded 17 years ago, in the wake of the Balkan
conflict and Siege of Sarajevo. Since then, volunteer therapists
have been travelling to Bosnia and Herzegovina for a two-week visit
where they carry out treatments on survivors of the conflict.
More recently, the organisation has launched the Forces Project
based in the UK, providing therapies to returning UK servicemen and
women who may be suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder
(PTSD) and the other mental and physical after-effects of active
service.
The donation of £3,457 will help to grow the project further,
adding to its work with Combat Stress projects in Colchester,
Norwich, Bury St Edmunds, London, Liverpool, Cardiff and SSAFA
funded homes for the families of injured soldiers including Norton
House in Birmingham, as well as Fabcamps in Cornwall and Whitby for
the bereaved families of the forces.
Sue Stretton, director of the HHN, comments: "As the charity
receives no funding apart from donations, we are extremely grateful
for this contribution - especially as it comes from fellow
therapists who appreciate the difference that holistic therapies
can make to someone experiencing PTSD or coming to terms with
amputations and injuries. The money will be used to build on the
success that the Forces Project has gained so far and enable us
extend the work that our volunteer therapists do across the
UK."
Guild Press' Managing Director Gary Hackett adds: "We are very
proud to support the Healing Hands Network, and know that the money
raised and kindly donated by our show visitors will be put to
excellent use and enable the HHN team to grow on the admirable work
carried out so far with the Forces Project."
For more information about the Forces Project and Healing Hands
Network, visit www.healinghandsnetwork.org.uk or telephone 1885
410 620.