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 generous donations over the years, we’ve been able to support Billy with his mental health via both remote counselling sessions and also on our Reset Programme – which he says “changed his life”. Naomi Parton-Smith is running the 2022 London Marathon for us as a thank you for the mental health support we’ve offered her partner, Jeff. Thanks to your donations, we were able to help him find the tools he needed to aid his recovery. Kaisha Robertson, whose father is a retired firefighter, is living with long-term health conditions which impact her movement and has been supported by our Physiotherapy and Welfare teams. On-call firefighter Melanie Davis attended our Covid Recovery Programme last year after struggling with the long-term impacts of Covid-19. She says it provided the help she’d been craving for months. Firefighter Anton Awramenko and his family were supported by our Welfare Team after he revealed their struggle to include their youngest son, who has learning disabilities, in family activities.
Billy: “I found the courage to say ‘I need help’ – it’s the hardest thing you’ll have to do”
Jeff & Naomi: “Without your support we may not have our future as a family ahead of us”
Kaisha: “I missed out a lot on teenage years… the Charity’s helped give me independence”
Melanie: “To have this opportunity is amazing – it’s about not feeling alone anymore”
Anton: “I’d thought it was a Charity for firefighters… but it’s all about families too”
