Pilgrim Bandits Charity was established by a small group of Special Forces veterans in 2007 with the sole aim of using their unique training and experience to help and inspire wounded soldiers to live life to the full.

Pilgrim Bandits’ primary aim is to help those in need directly, with no compromise. Soon, those who needed help become those that give it. By pushing injured men and women into physically and mentally demanding situations that they would not have dreamed possible; kayaking extraordinary distances, climbing mountains, jumping from aircraft, running races, trekking across inhospitable terrain, self-confidence is restored and self-belief instilled – Always a Little Further. Pilgrim Bandits pushes those that have already endured so much to go beyond endurance – to embrace life again and in so doing inspire others.

The mantra ‘Always a Little Further’ is core to the charity’s attitude, whether working with amputee men and women from the services directly or by utilising their experiences to inspire and encourage young people and children. Pilgrim Bandits don’t do sympathy, but offer the rewards of belonging to a team, encouragement, belief and the power of humour over pain.

A cardiac department was set up in Brighton by Douglas Chamberlain in 1970, and he was joined by Richard Vincent in 1979. Many kind patients gave money for the department’s use and the ‘Cardiac Department Discretionary Fund’was set up.

In 1987 the Charity was incorporated as a charitable company and called Brighton Heart Support Trust. The Charity funded Automated Defibrillators on two railway stations and we believe that this was the first public access defibrillation programme anywhere in the world. Many more have followed. The Charity increasingly financed projects outside the immediate vicinity of Brighton including community training and for this reason the Charity changed its name once more in 2006 and is now known as Sussex Heart Charity, guided by our Executive Officer and a committed group of Trustees.

The Charity supported local research and community resuscitation training was started in 1978. It became known as Heart Guard and was only the second of its type in Europe (after Norway). By 1984 over 20,000 citizens had been trained in Brighton and many lives had been saved: successes that would have been very unlikely without bystander intervention. Heart Guard continues to this day.

The Trevor Mann Baby Unit in Brighton is a specialist unit for the care of premature and sick newborn babies. It provides special care, high dependency care and intensive care. It also provides a service for babies requiring surgery.

The Special Care Baby Unit (SCBU) in Haywards Heath is a unit for the care of premature and sick newborn babies requiring short term high dependency care or special care. Both units have all the necessary facilities and staffing to deliver high quality and up-to-date care to newborn babies and supportive care to babies and parents during the stages of recovery.

They are continually involved in local and national research projects. As a result of many parents consenting to their babies’ taking part in such research they have been able to constantly improve their care.

Founded by Rob Paxman (former 22 SAS) in 2008 Talking2Minds’ ethos is ‘Veterans helping Veterans’. We at Consec Risk Management support Talking 2 Minds with helping veteran take back control of their lives.

That ethos remains to this day although, as Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and other severe stress-related conditions such as Stress, Fear and Anxiety and Anger Issues affect all sectors of society, it has now become ‘Like helping Like’.

Talking2Minds is a small charity. Since its foundation in 2008 and despite severe financial restraints, it has helped over 700 hundred people put the pieces of their lives back together.

Help For Children (HFC) and the Alternative Investment industry have together been fighting child abuse since 1998. Help For Children provides desperately needed private funding and expert consultation to select social organisations to achieve measurable results.

Child abuse worldwide is known as a ‘silent epidemic’ as it effects children that are too young and scared or simply uninformed to seek help, and can be easily hidden from view by the perpetrators.

Check out their JustGiving page.

Help for Children UK are dedicated to stopping child abuse across the UK and support those that have been subject to it already.

Consec are pleased to be able to donate £1,150 + Gift Aid to the charity through Just Giving to support the vital work that they do.