Alford's have recently decided to make the newly formed Felix Fund - the Bomb Disposal Charity - our official charity.

The Felix Fund exists to support any military personnel who have conducted or assisted with Explosive Ordnance Disposal duties, and their families.

This includes ammunition technical officers, ammunition technicians, ECM operators, drivers, infantry escorts, weapons intelligence specialists, dog handlers, searchers or any other military personnel involved in EOD duties.

Their current focus is funding therapeutic normalisation breaks to help bomb disposal teams readjust to life in the UK after serving in Afghanistan.

They are also raising money for welfare and rehabilitation facilities, and building a hardship fund for all. This fund will of course support the trade’s many injured and bereaved, but also members of the wider ‘bomb disposal family’ who have otherwise fallen on hard times.

Alfords are supporting the fund by hosting two EOD awareness days which were auctioned at an initial fundraising event and are sponsoring the Alford Fundraising Plate which will be awarded anually to the military group that has raised the most money for the charity in the last 12 months.

Visit the Felix Fund at http://www.felixfund.org.uk/