Help For Heroes Charity Event - London 16th January 2010

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Firstly, my thanks to Brian for allowing this post. If I have posted it in the wrong place, I apologise! I'm sure it will be moved to the right place :)

I would like to let everyone know about a forthcoming charity event that is raising funds for the Help For Heroes Charity.

The event, which is open to all regardless of photographic ability, is taking place in London on 16th January 2010.

Kevin Wilson FMPA, FBIPP, FRPS and Martin Grahame-Dunn FMPA, FRSA, QEP, Hon.FMPA are hosting a fantastic training event and party to raise money for the charity Help For Heroes which supports our injured troops with their rehabilitation.

Tickets for the four hour Masterclasses are only £50 and for the party are £25 which includes a buffet and live music. The events are being organised to raise money for Help For Heroes and we have set ourselves a target of £1000 to help the Serviceman who are seriously injured in conflict almost on a daily basis.

Full details may be viewed by viewing the pdf:

http://docs.google.com/fileview?id=0B6EKfvVcmtswZTgwZjRhYzktNWJhZS00OTIzLWE2MTMtZmQ0Njk4ZDhjYzE3&hl=en

The Help For Heroes Charity needs no introduction. The work they do for both serving and ex-service personell has been well documented and they need every penny to continue in their work.

Please support this event if you are able to do so.

Again, thanks to the Admins for allowing this post.

Mark
 
Good luck with raising a lot for them, too far for me to go but looks as if it could be a good do.
Looks like 2 very good people hosting it :)
 
2 Brilliant people giving very generously of their time. :)

Unfortunately I've had to make my apologies as I can't make it but if anyone is looking for some photographic inspiration and guidance than they don't come any better and a good night out too :)
 
AliB said:
2 Brilliant people giving very generously of their time. :)

Unfortunately I've had to make my apologies as I can't make it but if anyone is looking for some photographic inspiration and guidance than they don't come any better and a good night out too :)
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Oh it is going to be a blinder of a night thats for sure :)
 
A very worthwhile cause

Hope you raise your £1000 target and then some.
 
First of all my sincere and heartfelt thanks to the admins on Talk Photography for allowing this post. The Charity "Help for Heroes" is very close to my heart for personal reasons.

Tickets are still available for the seminars although I believe the afternoon session may well be full and there could be around 20 places left for the party.

If this is successful then we intend to repeat the event in different parts of the UK. So if you really can't get to London in January and still want to help us to help our heroes then don't despair we will do more.

Thank you "Talk Photography"

Martin Grahame-Dunn (all the quals bits etc.)
 
martycgd said:
First of all my sincere and heartfelt thanks to the admins on Talk Photography for allowing this post. The Charity "Help for Heroes" is very close to my heart for personal reasons.

Tickets are still available for the seminars although I believe the afternoon session may well be full and there could be around 20 places left for the party.

If this is successful then we intend to repeat the event in different parts of the UK. So if you really can't get to London in January and still want to help us to help our heroes then don't despair we will do more.

Thank you "Talk Photography"

Martin Grahame-Dunn (all the quals bits etc.)
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Didn't realise going on "Tour" was being considered. What a cracking idea :)
 
martycgd said:
First of all my sincere and heartfelt thanks to the admins on Talk Photography for allowing this post. The Charity "Help for Heroes" is very close to my heart for personal reasons.

Tickets are still available for the seminars although I believe the afternoon session may well be full and there could be around 20 places left for the party.

If this is successful then we intend to repeat the event in different parts of the UK. So if you really can't get to London in January and still want to help us to help our heroes then don't despair we will do more.

Thank you "Talk Photography"

Martin Grahame-Dunn (all the quals bits etc.)
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THankyou for taking the time to come here Martin - and what a great thing to be doing.

As a supporter of the cause I will look forward to any seminars you may do further north. Not my usual photographic discipline but any opportunity to learn new skills is a good one IMO.
 
I really hope we get a few people from Talk Photography attend our events on the 16th January. So if anyone out there is interested then please contact me as soon as possible.
Martin
 
Hi Martin, if you do take this on tour and are somewhere up here (Sheffield/Leeds) you can add me to the list, would be a fantastic evening :)
 
I see it clashes nicely with something else happening in Hammersmith about the same time Mark................

DOH!!
 
The seminars are deliberately repeated morning and afternoon sessions so anyone wishing to attend the SWPP Convention to do a masterclass can do so with ease. Also the SWPP have no Satuerday evening Party and therefore there is no conflict whatsoever. Best to clarify I think.
Martin
 
Come north.......come north...... you know you want to :)
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AliB said:
Come north.......come north...... you know you want to :)
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I'm going to have a chat with Martin and see what we can do for 2010. Us t'up north always seem to be forgotton with events generally being planned "darn sarth".

I'll keep you informed of any developments Alison :)
 
I am hoping that there will be more of you out there on this forum and elsewhere that would consider coming to the H4H events on January 16th. The events are to be held at the Brook Green Hotel in Hammersmith and within easy reach of the Novotel where the SWPP Convention is taking place. Please try to support us and contact me at mgrahamedunn@mac.com
Many thanks in anticipation,
Martin
 
This is going to be a great event and a charity supported that is close to my heart too. So come on people, join this event learn something worthwhile and party afterwards with people at all stages of their photographic career who will no doubt talk shop if required.

Happy New Year All
 
I have been informed this evening that The SWPP have now arranged a 'party' on Saturday 16th and with live music. It is branded as a social evening. We have experienced a drop in numbers from the Help for Heroes event but it will indeed take place and unfortunately raise less than it should.

The Help for Heroes event will attempt to raise much needed funds for men and women who offer their lives for every man woman and child in the United Kingdom and elsewhere in this troubled world. These brave warriors daily put their lives on the line and many are seriously wounded in action. What the British Government does for them when they fall is pitiful.

Help for Heroes is there to allow people like us to contribute and help without prejudice or agenda. Clearly the morality of those that seek to affect such a well intentioned event is at best questionable.
 
Please, if anyone knows anyone who is able to support this event then pass on the information. You only had to watch the news on New Years Day to see the lives that are affected in the conflicts. It doesn't matter about political beliefs and the rights and wrongs of the conflict, but these young lads are getting injured just doing their job and need the support of all of us.

So no matter what standard of photographer you are and if you can come to London to support us then please do. It would be such a shame to cancel an event of this kind due to the immorality of others.

This event looks like being given a positive review in the London Evening Standard thanks to Martin. So recommend this event to friends and do something positive for the industry at a time when there are many negative vibes about.

Paul
 
I have been talking to Martin and I have arranged to set up an event studio for the evening to help raise money for the charity. I will also be giving a talk from 6.15pm for about an hour on event photography which will be free of charge. If you have any questions I will be happy to answer them there.


If Martin is able to take this on the road I would be happy to do the same again. There are some things that we are duty bound to support.

Mike
 
Heading down to London today, really looking forward to the H4H events, gonna be a good day :)
 
I am hoping that it does go out around the country as it sounds a really good day with the bonus of helping a good charity.
 
Hi, Just posting here in the hope of getting some details.

I have a confirmation from Martin via his Blackberry back in December for a place in the morning event, but have received no further communication from him or request for payment. I've been expecting something to come through this week but it hasn't. I dropped him a mail this morning, but he is probably busy as I have yet to receive a reply. Has anyone else had any emails or requests for payment?

If someone has details of an alternative method of contacting him and is happy to share it, please can they PM me, thanks.
 
I have sent you a couple of numbers but it was just before the forum went whoopsie, if they did not arrive let me kow and I will resend them :)
 
It was a fantastic day and party and looks like we will have raised a bit for charity. Mike, you are complete star for what you did at the event and was good to meet you. Lots of happy people about today.
 
Paul,

the pleasure was all mine. Such a fantastically nice bunch of people, who all looked like they were having a good time and at the same time raising money for a really good cause. The real praise is for Martin, Mark and yourself for putting in all the effort to get this up and running.

Lets see what we can do next time round.

Mike
 
Can I add my congratulations and thanks to ALL involved. I went to the morning seminar and had the most amazing few hours. Martin and Kevin are stars and I think I learnt more about posing people in those few short hours than....well, ever...brilliant stuff!!

Oh yes and I have to post this, ANYone that allows me to stand on a high table waving around an H3D and 80mm lens deserves not only huge thanks, but probably a very large drink! So special thanks to Mark and his colleague from Hasselblad that brought along gear this mere mortal could normally only dream about :love:

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yeah I know, I am a lousy photographer :lol:


Anyway, I hope LOADS of cash was raised for this very worthy charity and that the party went with a bang too :thumbs:



oh and Paul, good to see you here too :thumbs:
 
i appreciate people who do this sort of thing
you may have no idea [i expect] how bad we are treated after leaving service.
some of the storys i hear from one welfare office i know are harrowing and a disgrace to the goverment.
my injuries pale into insignificence in comparison to some.

i allways put something in when i see the collection box.

should you have an event coser to me i will do my best to support it,well done :thumbs:
 
ditchdigger said:
i appreciate people who do this sort of thing
you may have no idea [i expect] how bad we are treated after leaving service.
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The three guys that organised the event, Mark, Paul & Martin all know exactly what you are talking about either from their own time in or that of their family - me, I only left 3 years ago after 26 years, which is why they did what they did and why I did what I did.

Some of us are lucky and walk out of it pretty much as we came into it and then there are the others - the ones that remind us of just how lucky we are. We always have and always will look after our own and the Help 4 Heroes campaign is a sign that many appreciate what they have given - just a shame that our government does not seem to think so.

Mike
 
I had the opportunity to spend some time with Gill Shaw discussing her book "The Hero Inside" which she brought along and happily autographed and we sold on the night for the fund raiser.

Some of the injuries she told me about were terrible yet one thing shone through: - Determination.

Determination not to let serious injuries get them down, determination to make the most of their lives after suffering horrific injuries, determination to get their lives as close to "back to normal" as possible.

The news papers and tv are very quick to show images of coffins but often forget the legacy of war includes not just those killed on active duty, but also those who received serious life long injuries.

For me it was a very humbling experience, not just my chat with Gill Shaw but the overall event. A lot of hard work went into it, there were people who had booked to come and then dropped out at the last minute despite being catered for, those who turned up were extremely generous often making additional contributions by purchasing H4H wrist bands that I walked round with despite they had already made a donation to be there, the people who donated their time and skills, the Hotel for laying on such a good event..... I could go on and on.

Our Armed Forces who have been injured in the line of duty NEED Charities to raise funds and I for one, am extremely proud to have done just a little bit for Help 4 Heroes.
 
Love the picture Mike. I totally agree with what Mark said above and to me it was also humbling. Not everything in life is about making money for ourselves, sometimes we need to sit back and realise there are many things that help us make money, such as Soldiers defending freedom, families who give us support and others that just spend their lives helping others for no financial gain. They just want to help. So to have people like Mike do what they did, the musician/singers etc all give time was brilliant and never under estimated be me.

I have put a few thank you's and links on my facebook fan page www.facebook.com/paulbrownphotography and will do on my blog also.

Once again thank you and who knows, it may happen again.

Paul
 
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